Characters / The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

The cast of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. Due to the demo's short length, all spoilers are unmarked.

The Graves Family

Tropes applying to all four

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Graves family is so dysfunctional that when the Graves siblings prepare to kill their parents, everyone present in the basement (bar the father, who's simply way too much of a wuss to have his own opinions) is so dishonest and manipulative that it's hard to tell who's right and who's wrong by face value. Mrs. Graves purposefully leaves Ashley to her own devices because she fears that she will be worse than her (something that contributed to her becoming exactly that) and has Andrew put her in check, only for him to end up doing everything she tells him to because he's just as spineless as his father. This is not even going onto the whole thing where the parents sold their children to be butchered by a MegaCorp for money as Ashley plans a burglary-murder against them even before she found out they sold them after the siblings escape. When Andrew finds out Mrs. Graves's credit card is locked and she tells her children to suck it, his Inner Monologue even lampshades it.
  Being insufferable runs in the family...
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being various degrees of evil or Jerkass they all have people they care about. Andrew and Ashley love and protect each other, while Mr. and Mrs. Graves love each other.
• Evil Versus Evil: Episode 2 largely centers on the Serial Killer Graves siblings robbing and sacrificing to a demon their neglectful parents who abandoned them to an Organ Theft operation and show ambiguously-genuine at best remorse for their actions.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Their family name, "Graves", should be a dead-ringer that their life would be rife with death and degeneracy, especially after their madwoman of a daughter was born.
• Never My Fault: If there's one thing in common with all four members of the Graves family, it's that they get really messy with their blame-shifting. Everyone there likes to push the blame of their woes onto each other (or in Ashley's case, other girls who dare approach her Andrew out of goodwill). Surprisingly, Andrew is the worst at this despite being the closest thing this messed up family has to a "White Sheep" who would be a decent person if not for Ashley manipulating him to the point of no return, as he outright blames Ashley for every single thing despite the fact that he did willingly assist her in several crimes.

The Graves Siblings

Both Siblings

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• AB Negative: They both have AB blood. This is why they were being starved to death at the start of the game, as they were deemed less useful for organ harvest than their neighbors with other blood types.
• Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Both of them killed one of their childhood friends, Nina, in a prank gone wrong. Andrew shows a great deal of guilt for his actions, which marks him as an Anti-Villain, while Ashley is apathetic towards the event, solidifying her as a straight Villain Protagonist.
• Affectionate Nickname: Subverted. While their nicknames for each other, "Andy" and "Leyley", are normally an endearing case, it's a clear representation of their toxic co-dependent relationship and the fact that they're young adults who're still childish in their own ways coupled with some mental issues. After Andrew snaps and nearly strangles his sister to death for her taunts and lack of seriousness, they eventually drop the nicknames in order to better handle future events and leave behind their previous lives.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing:
  • Played darkly for laughs. A few of the Game Over screens where both siblings are killed mention that the world has become a better place without them, but that would be an anticlimactic way to end their story and then gives the player a chance to restart.
  • Played for drama in the actual story after the Death Faked for You, the siblings' parents and family friends weren't too broken up about their apparent deaths, even describing their apparent demises as a "blessing in disguise" in one letter the siblings can find. The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Graves were not happy to see Ashley alive again (even if they're only initially indifferent towards Andrew before opening up to him) makes it very clear how much they disliked her.
• Beauty Is Bad: Both of them look quite attractive despite their lack of nutrients and personal hygiene, but are the Villain Protagonists of the game.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: In a rare example, this applies to both genders. Their living situation should have left them badly malnourished, to say nothing of their poor hygiene. Despite everything, they somehow are both still physically attractive and healthy-looking.
• Brains and Brawn: The manipulative Ashley tends to be the Brains, while Andrew, the more physical of the two siblings, is the Brawn.
• Broken Bird: Exaggerated. Due to Ashley being neglected by her mother and just about anyone else she comes across because her mother thought that she was evil, she became a murderer, torturer and manipulator worse than the evil she fears her to be. On the other hand, Andrew not only killed his childhood friend on accident for Ashley's cruel prank, Ashley also took advantage of the incident to keep him under wraps and allow her to isolate him away from his personal life as she desires, greatly traumatizing him and causing him to be apathetic to the horrible crimes he commits for Ashley's sake, deluding himself that he had no choice.
• Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Toxic and vitriolic as their relationship is, the two of them clearly care for one another and seemingly are the only source of light in the Crapsack World they live in, especially Ashley.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Andy and Leyley accidentally killed one of their friends, Nina, by locking her in a trunk overnight where she died of asthma, whom the latter took full advantage to cut him off from people in his personal life bar her. Then, we learn their mother was neglectful towards Leyley because she feared that she was evil, while their father didn't even care to remember Andy's name because he was an incompetent buffoon. It's no wonder they're both so deeply screwed up.
• Death Faked for You: In Episode 2, it is revealed that the siblings were declared dead by the government after their parents sold them to a corporate Organ Theft operation 3 months prior. When the siblings escape the apartment, the corporation behind the organ harvesting conspiracy starts a Fiery Cover Up, resulting in the people who knew that they were still alive thinking the siblings are truly dead. This ironically works in the siblings' favor throughout Episode 2.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The two are utterly depraved Serial Killers and are blatantly abusive against each other, but despite how toxic their relationship is, it's clear that they do care for one another to some extent.
• Evil Duo: Of the Brother–Sister Team variety, with Ashley as the more lively and upbeat of the duo while Andrew is the more subdued and snarky one.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Andrew is the responsible one, often having to bail Ashley out of trouble or explain why her impulsive, short-sighted plans won't work.
• Freudian Excuse: It’s ambiguous but suggested that Ashley being neglected by her parents had at least some role in her becoming a deranged Yandere to her older brother, the only person to show her any love, and him having to play this role screwed him up just as much. In addition, both have a very similar dynamic to their parents, indicating they took after the only adult role models in their life.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Both siblings:
  • Ashley hates any woman who approaches her beloved Andrew, fantasizing about murdering them (and actually doing it, in Nina's case) or sending hundreds of angry voicemails and trying to taunt them into committing suicide (in Julia's case).
  • Andrew's dream sequence in Episode 2 shows he similarly fantasized about murdering the guard who oogled Ashley, saying he only regrets not making him suffer even worse. An optional conversation between the siblings has him threaten violence towards both Ashley and any man who might come to her for sex if she became a call girl to get them some extra money.
• I'm a Humanitarian: They first ate their cultist neighbor for the sake of survival, after a demon stole his soul. Then they ate their parents corpses to dispose of them.
• Incest Subtext: Many of their interactions come off like a Like an Old Married Couple and it seems like they are borderline flirting with each other at times. Supplementary material made by the game's developer only added fuel to the fire. It is not until one of the endings of Episode 2, is it confirmed that the subtext is very intentional, as one of Ashley's visions reveals that one possible future for the siblings is them engaging in Brother–Sister Incest.
• Inspiration Nod:
  • The Graves siblings share similarities with the main characters, Sweeney Todd and Nellie Lovett, in the film version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
    • Andrew Graves and Sweeney Todd were known as charismatic and handsome due to their appearances; but in general, they were mentally unstable serial killers who have obsessed with hand-wielded weapons and crime.
    • Ashley Graves and Nellie Lovett were manipulative and remorseless femme fatales who were obsessed in manipulating their male partners and were known for their cannibalistic tendencies.
  • They are also evocative of Thomas and Lucille Sharpe from Crimson Peak:
    • Andrew is a brooding, handsome Anti-Villain who catches the eye of many a woman, but is domineered by his sister after their abusive mother locked them away together. Just like Thomas and Lucille, Andrew allows Ashley to drive everyone else away from him because of her possessive love and depending on the route can feel just as "trapped" as Thomas. The two also share a green color motif.
    • Ashley is the much less stable of the pair, just like Lucille, and like Lucille has no conniptions or remorse for murdering everyone and anyone for money or for getting in the way of her love for her brother. She is just as manipulative of Andrew as Lucille is to Thomas. Finally, Lucille and Ashley share a red/pink color motif.
• In-Series Nickname: Both had nicknames from childhood, Andy for Andrew and Leyley for Ashley.
• Like Father, Like Son: While Andrew inherited his submissive nature from his father, with Andrew admitting to seeing similiarities between his father's submission to their mother and his submission to Ashley. Both siblings get their talent in gaslighting, lying, manipulation, and snarking from their mother. They may have also picked up their parents' fondness for an ''adventurous'' sex life if the vision is accurate; Andrew has some pretty impressive scratches while Ashley has an actual bite mark.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Played straight for Andrew, and both Gender-Inverted and Played for Horror for Ashley.
  • Andrew clearly hates the idea of his sister having a relationship with another guy, or mainly the idea of her having sex with them, even threatening to hit her if she takes up a job as a call girl.
  • Ashley has a rather disturbing co-dependent relationship with him and frequently harasses his girlfriends to get rid of them so they can't take any of his attention. In probably the first time this happened, it resulted in the death of one of his schoolmates once when she pressured him to lock her in a box in an abandoned warehouse and refusing to let her out when she had an asthma attack, accusing her of faking it.
• Parental Abandonment: Andrew and Ashley's parents have disappeared after being given the all-clear during the initial screening, leaving the two on their own. Their mother even refuses to listen to them asking for help and bluntly asks them not to call again. In something of a subversion though, Andrew is 22 and Ashley is 20 and just happened to live at their parents’ home.
• Parental Neglect: Even before the abandonment, it's heavily implied that their parents weren't the most nurturing of the two siblings, which played a big part in their developing an unhealthy co-dependent relationship. Episode 2 confirms this as their mother didn't want to acknowledge Ashley due to her being a Creepy Child and force Andrew to be Promoted to Parent, and their father is incredibly weak-willed and inattentive to them.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Despite their crude behavior and Ashley's love of dirty jokes, both siblings are understandably weirded out when finding evidence of their parents' kinky sex life.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Their victims in the present day are at best jerk asses and at worst just as bad as them.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Both of them are in their early 20s, but they bicker and act like angsty teens and have questionable problems in the mental department. Moreso for Ashley, who is more willing to kill people gruesomely without batting an eye.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Both siblings have dark hair, pale skin, and considered very physically attractive.
• Sarcasm Mode: Ashley tends to make sarcastic quips at times, such as when Andrew investigates the demon summoning tutorial, she tells him that the cultist neighbour's horribly failed ritual "turned up so well" for him. Andrew can also devolve into sarcastic banter, but usually only when he's feeling playful.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: A darker dynamic than most. Andrew is the serious and deadpan older brother, while Ashley is upbeat and energetic younger sister. Although, this deconstructed because Andrew is constantly stressed out by the siblings' life-or-death situations, while Ashley's sociopathy prevents her from feeling guilt that would weigh down her cheerful attitude.
• Serial Killer: They have killed 6 people in the game proper (bar the accidental kill when they were young), sometimes directly through Andrew, other times by summoning demons to steal their souls.
• Self-Made Orphan: They ended up sacrificing their parents in a demonic ritual at the end of Episode 2. Notably, unlike with the the Wardens prior Andrew only assisted in preparing the ritual for Ashley and disposing their corpses; Ashley is the one who came up with the idea of killing them and personally did the dirty work.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: They do not hold back with their cussing. Ashley also throws the word "cunt" as an insult no less than several times and refers to Julia as a "cumdumpster" in one voicemail.
• Sociopathic Hero: The two are at odds with a MegaCorp who openly locks people in their homes, starves them to death and harvests their organs, but they're willing to brutally kill and dissect people (some of them innocents) and summon demons over it and are thus really no better.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Both siblings are very much alike to each other in terms of appearance, both having messy dark hair and similar facial features inherited from their mother, but while Andrew inherited his mother's eye color (which's very light green, almost yellow) influenced by his father's darker shade resulting in his deep green eyes, Ashley in contrast inherited her father's eye color (which's very deep pink, almost purple) influenced by her mother's brighter shade resulting in her light pink eyes.
• Unkempt Beauty: Both of them barely ate for three months by the start of the game and don't focus much on their personal hygiene. Yet, they're both good-looking people.
• Villain Protagonist: Ashley, as well as Andrew, are really not good people despite being the protagonists of the story and being at odds with an equally horrible MegaCorp, with Ashley being much worse since she's directly behind all of Andrew's more horrible actions.

Ashley "Leyley" Graves

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The game's main protagonist, Ashley is a 20-year-old woman who lives at home with her older brother, over whom she exerts an unhealthy fixation and need for control.—-

• Act of True Love: In both Burial variants, Ashley symbolically allows the rabbit representing Andrew out of its cage, showing her willingness to trust him to stay with her.
  • In the Questionable Burial ending, Ashley proceeds to the place it in front of every aspect of her life, showing she wants him to be her best friend, her brother, her father, and her lover simultaneously.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Dislikes her mother because of the neglect she suffered from her, and is willing to murder her for money and to recharge her demonic talisman.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Exaggerated and Played for Horror. She goes out of her way to be as horrible as possible against any girl her older brother has taken a liking to, took advantage of the Accidental Murder of one to keep him completely under her control, almost drove one to suicide, and ropes him into several proxy killings in the game proper, including the orchestrated burglary-murder against her parents. In the Decay Route, this comes to a head where Andrew outright hates her for murdering their parents for money and demonic power and plans on killing her later on.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: After discovering Malcom and Dave have been sexually extorting some of the other residents of the compartment complex in exchange for food and better treatment, Ashley was offended that the wardens didn't try anything with her. Andrew points out they likely didn't go after Ashley because he is with her, and thus she wouldn't be considered a vulnerable target. In Episode 2, Andrew does mention he caught Malcom and other wardens gawking at Ashley in the past. However, the most likely reason they didn't approach Ashley was because the wardens were given orders not to give food at all to residents with AB blood types.
• Betty and Veronica: A very dark example Played for Horror. Due to her Big Brother Attraction, Ashley is the Veronica to Julia's Betty for Andrew's Archie. That said, Ashley is not only Andrew's sister, she's also a vile sociopath who delights in getting people killed or hurt, especially if they are girls who got in her way.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She might be a hothead with a knack for sarcastic Black Comedy jokes, but not only she's a vicious serial killer, abusive sibling and gaslighter, she's also way smarter than she lets herself to be and can orchestrate meticulous breakouts, murders and cover-ups very well. Furthermore, she's only funny when she's not killing people, and her crimes are played for drama and horror without an iota of comedy.
• Big-Breast Pride: Ashley is a well-endowed woman who takes pride in her, as she puts it, "awesome fat tits".
• Big Brother Attraction: Despite how much they argue, Ashley is obsessed with her older brother since he was the only person to show her any affection while they were growing up. She has gone to great lengths to manipulate and blackmail him to never leave her side. She will also react very negatively if any other girl so much as even shows the slightest bit of interest in Andrew. She's also remarkably unfazed by the Erotic Dream/vision with him in the Questionable route, and even says she actually expected it to happen one of these days.
• Big Brother Worship: She absolutely adores her brother despite her snark towards him. Her dream sequences with the green rabbit representing him call him the "absolute bestest thing ever", while she refers to her own pink rabbit as "useless".
• Big Sister Bully: Inverted. She's the younger sister, but is horribly toxic towards her older brother.
• The Bully: To Julia when she was dating Andrew. Ashley would constantly stalk and send hundreds of death threats, many of which involved Slut-Shaming and suicide baiting, and the harassment got so bad that Julia started to perform Self-Harm and possibly a Bungled Suicide.
• Buffyspeak: She calls any other girl who's attracted to Andrew as "Huzzies" or "Floozies". It highlights her immaturity and psychopathy, as she still uses this term way well into adulthood and she will go out of her way to act as cruel as possible to any girl who got in her way.
• Card-Carrying Villain: During the sibling's first deadly argument in Episode 1 and when the siblings eat their parent's flesh in the Decay Route, it's made very clear that she enjoyed whatever utterly depraved act she committed and openly brags to Andrew about them. He's obviously unamused about it.
• Cleavage Window: Her wide neckline shirt exposes some cleavage.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Woe to behold any girl either dating or even showing interest in her older brother. Nina and Julia find this out the hard way, especially Nina's case as it cost her life.
• Comedic Sociopath: Ashley is a complete and utter maniac fully willing to commit many horrible actions in the name of self-interest and survival, but her perfected sense of sarcasm and snark (that is, whenever she's not in the middle of getting people killed or hurt badly) makes her a pretty entertaining character.
• The Corrupter: No matter how you think of their relationship, it's very clear that Ashley is not a healthy influence towards Andrew. She goes out of her way to get rid of any girl trying to be close to him, pushes him into becoming more willing to commit depraved acts for her sake and keeps him under her control by blackmailing him using his childhood friend's death. In the Decay Route, Andrew is broken down completely partially through her lack of trust and manipulation, leaving him a near-Empty Shell.
• Creepy Child: Even as a child, there was something wrong with Ashley. She pulled a cruel "prank" on her "friend" Nina for having a crush on her brother, and was very nonchalant when the prank turned deadly. Although, this is deconstructed since her mother knew that Ashley was a sociopath at a young age, and treated her daughter rather poorly because of it. As result, Ashley became a far worse person in adulthood since she has deprived of her mother's love, cling to her brother as her source for affection, and never got the helped she needed as a child.
• Cute and Psycho: Ashley is a fairly attractive 20-year-old woman who has some childish tendencies. However, she is also a psychotic Control Freak who loves to gaslight and manipulate her brother.
• The Cynic: Sometimes, her inner monologue indicate that she doesn't have much to expect for the future.
  When checking the garbage can in Andrew's bedroom at the start of Episode 1: In the trash lie your hopes and dreams. Exactly where they belong.
• Dancin' in the Ruins: Unlike Andrew who finds their predicament a source of anguish and stress, Ashley couldn't be happier that the powers ruling wider society destroyed the siblings' connection to society. After all, she never had any real place in it and now as a criminal she can indulge in her desires as long as she can stay ahead of the authorities and convince Andrew to play along.
  After escaping the apartment complex at the end of Episode 1: How can you do anything else but laugh? Everything has gone to crap!
• Didn't Think This Through: She keeps assuming that they can just use something or kill someone without repercussions. She however, is still smart enough to act accordingly over it when Andrew tells her why this mindset won't work and she'll have to cover-up for her crimes.
  • In Episode 2 she's surprised by Andrew's warning that they need to leave their parents' house quickly. She'd assumed they could just stay there indefinitely after killing their parents, not realizing sooner or later someone would look into this. Similarly she doesn't realize that two people who are officially dead and never reported their parents missing would be very suspicious.
  • Even when she's convinced they can't stay at the house, she has to be told that using her parents' IDs means they'll be leaving a trail for the authorities to follow.
• Dissonant Serenity: She's remarkably unbothered by murder and violence due to her sociopathy. Even as a child, while burying Nina, Leyley only wondered what Andy was going to make her for dinner.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: After summoning the Entity, the demon gives Ashley a talisman that will give her the power to see a vision of her possible future whenever she sleeps, allowing her to predict and evade danger before it comes. However, each vision requires Ashley to sacrifice a soul to the Entity to recharge the trinket, and this requires Ashley to actively hunt down people to use as sacrifices. In other words, she gets one vision per person she killed using the Entity.
  • Ashley's first premonition for Warden Dave's soul is a dream of both her and Andrew being killed by a Professional Killer in their sleep. This vision was able to warn the siblings of their pursuer and allow them to get the jump on their would-be assassin.
  • In the Decay Route, Ashley's second premonition for her parents' souls is either a vision where Andrew becomes enraged with Ashley and kills her, the other way around, or a murder-suicide. Regardless of the outcome (even during the premonition where she kills him), she bounces up visibly acting in fear, and Andrew acts much more hostile towards her right after.
  • In the "Questionable" version of the Burial Route, her second premonition for her parent's souls has her engaging in brother-sister incest with Andrew. Their relationship improves heavily afterwards (although given the sociopath Ashley is and Andrew is willingly giving in his humanity to her here, it's up to the player to decide if this is a good thing).
• Enfant Terrible: Even when she's just a kid it's very clear that she's not a decent person at all. After the prank against Nina Gone Horribly Wrong, she didn't care that she died and was content at leaving her corpse at the box if not for Andy telling her that they both will go to jail. Then she uses the opportunity to blackmail him.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Implied with her relationship with Andrew. She needs constant affirmation and thinks she needs to blackmail and manipulate her brother into liking and staying with her, despite him consistently showing she is the most important person in his life.
  • She refers to her parents as "whores" when Andrew brings up that they mingled with their neighbors, likening them just making friends to cheating on each other.
• Evil Gloating:
  • When recalling Nina's death, Ashley taunts Andrew by saying she's happy Nina died.
  • In the Decay Route, when she was dining on her parents flesh with Andrew, he asks her what's the point of eating their flesh when there's other food available. He gets these utterly depraved responses from his younger sister.
  Ashley: Okay! So humans are at the top of the food chain, right? And then when I come to eat the humans, I'm on top of that!
  When Andrew asks her that if she just wanted to sacrifice people and eat them for kicks: It's like if I eat someone, I'm eating their life so far. Like everything they've known and felt, I'm consuming all of that. And if I could turn that into some sort of energy, I'd be all powerful!
  When Andrew asks her if the power she gained from cannibalism will go when she shits the corpses out: HahHAHa!! No, no! It's just like absorbing nutrients. I get to keep the energy.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Ashley is an attractive young woman, but her soul is so dark that the Entity compares it to tar and her actions are so utterly depraved that they're impressive even for a World of Jerkass where the government and corporations team up to harvest people's organs.
• False Friend: To Nina. The game describes Nina as one of the Graves' Sibling's friends, but while this is true for Andrew, Ashley only saw her as a roadblock to be removed from his life. It's also implied from her obscured name and face in flashbacks that she didn't even bother to remember her other than the childhood "friend" she accidentally killed.
• Fatal Flaw: Insecurity. Her insecure attachment to Andrew brings out the worst in her, causing her to resort to blackmail, harassment, manipulation, and murder to keep her brother by her side, believing he secretly hates her deep down and won't stick around if she doesn't drive everyone else away from him. Ironically, Andrew's dialogue and inner monologue both suggest he would have chosen her anyways and most of her cruelest actions are unnecessary and only serve to drive him away.
• Faux Affably Evil: She's perfectly capable of being civil and charming, but it doesn't really hide how evil she is.
• Fearless Fool: Ashley seemingly has no concept of her actions having consequences and is rather blasé about the dangerous situations she finds herself in. This is first demonstrated by stubbornly exerting herself to clean the apartment in spite of suffering from starvation and being warned by Andrew. She, of course, passes out immediately after. That said, given that she orchestrated multiple carefully-calculated murders and cover-ups and does heed Andrew's advice to outrun the authorities seriously enough despite initial hesitation, she is definitely not a fool.
• Female Misogynist: Is something of the polar opposite of The Sex-Negative Nelly version: she is almost incapable of viewing women though any lens outside of being a sexual object. The very first thought she shares in the game in regards to her parents is that their bed is where they had sex, she instantly assumes that the Lady gets special treatment from the guards through Sex for Services (it's largely down to luck that this hasty assumption was correct), is offended by the idea that the wardens seemingly had no interest in coercing her as well (and only cheers up when Andrew points out that they probably did want to, but couldn't), views any woman that interacts with Andrew as a potential sexual threat, was possibly not entirely joking about selling her body to make some easy cash, and frequently remarks on her and Andrew's sexual relationship (be it that they can't have one or that they could start one if they wanted). She even casually mentions that she figured that she and Andrew eventually would commit Brother–Sister Incest, because where else could their relationship eventually take them? The idea that Andrew (or any man, for that matter) might not view her, at least partially, as a piece of meat is depressing to her.
• Flaw Exploitation: Ashley gleefully uses Andrew's Fatal Flaw of not taking the blame for his own actions against him to get him to do whatever she tells him to do despite the fact that he could always object to her actions before they reach the point of no return during the apartment lockdown.
• Genki Girl: And a really horrific example of that. She's cheerful and sarcastically humorous in most situations, but she's also a completely and utterly depraved serial killer and manipulator so it's incredibly unsettling and dissonant.
• Genius Ditz: Ashley is generally sloppy and not all too bright, but she came up with the perfect way to distract Mr. Washing Machine so she and Andrew could kill him and is generally successful in her manipulation of the people around her. She's also far more adept at demon summoning than the actual demon-worshipping cult, something Andrew notes he's proud of her for.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Her mother didn't care about her by the slightest bit because she believed that she was evil. She managed to become the most evil person in the story and gives her and her husband a brutal death.
• Hated by All: Because of her sociopathy, everybody she interacts with hates Ashley, as her "friends" Nina and Julia only put up with her due to their feelings for Andrew during childhood and is The Un Favourite with her parents. It goes to the point where the demon she summons finds her soul repulsive, although it's actually impressed by how evil she is rather than hating her unlike the humans and gleefully cooperates with her as a result. Andrew is the only person who is willing to stand her initially only because she threatens to turn him in for his part in causing Nina's death.
• Hates Their Parent: On top of simply killing her parents for money and demonic energy to recharge her trinket, it's implied that Ashley seems to have longed for her mother's love since childhood and being denied it left her the perfect powder keg of Matricide that being abandoned to be starved and harvested by an Organ Theft conspiracy finally sets off. It's also why she gets exasperated with Andrew letting their mother get his ear in the Decay Route, as she's witnessed their mother largely preferring Andrew over her.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: For a version of "hero", anyway. Ashley knows she's awful and everyone hates her and makes many a mental jab at her own expense. She doesn't even have anything positive to say about herself to defend from Andrew's threats to choke her to death at the end of Episode 1.
• Hopeless Suitor: Her inner monologue, text messages to Julia, and dream sequences show she views herself as one to Andrew, hence resorting to blackmailing and manipulating him in order to keep him around. Subverted, as Andrew is very heavily implied to be attracted to Ashley back, but suppressing his feelings due to the consequences of Brother–Sister Incest.
• Horrifying the Horror: The vision in the Decay Route at the end of Part 2 has Andrew killing her (it can also the other way around or a mutual suicide depending on situation). Despite being shown as a confident, yet completely depraved and sociopathic Serial Killer up to that point, she instantly bounces up with genuine fear, an emotion that she doesn't display anywhere else.
• Housewife: Ashley wants to be one, describing herself as the perfect trophy wife who cooks, cleans, and looks beautiful. However, Ashley is a terrible cook and her penchant for murder and cannibalism, plus the siblings' circumstances, makes getting her dream unlikely.
• The Illegible: Implied to be as such. The writing on her various pieces of art is quite childish, and when skimming an autographed copy of the demon summoning manual, Andrew makes a comparison between the author's unreadable signature and her own writing.
• I'm a Humanitarian: While she and her brother ate her cultist neighbour when facing starvation, she later acquired a taste for it. In the Decay Route, she tells Andrew that engaging in cannibalism made her feel superior to other human beings, something that noticeably disturbs him. In the Burial Route she does not speak it out loud (as the conversation is about Andrew criticizing her cooking), but it can be assumed that this is still the case.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Despite her Lack of Empathy and claims that it doesn't bother her that she is Hated by All, there are hints that Ashley just wants to be loved more than anything else. She seems to secretly crave her mother's affection even in her 20s as it was mentioned that Ashley would frequently call her mother while in quarantine until being told to stop. Of course, there is her toxic co-dependence with brother whom she manipulated since childhood to remain by her side.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Ashley loves to watch when Andrew commits deranged acts such as chopping up their neighbor's corpse, shooting the hitman that came to kill them, and dismembering their parents.
• Kick the Dog:
  • When she was young, she played a cruel prank on Andy's childhood friend and refused to let her out of a box she trapped her in and accused her of faking being uncomfortable. Unfortunately, she has dust allergies, so she died because of asthma. Despite the fact that the murder was unintentional, she didn't care (or was happy about it) and used it to blackmail Andy. There was no reason behind the cruel act other than to keep Andy for herself.
  • Her murder of her parents can be considered this. Despite the fact that they did sacrifice their children to a MegaCorp's organ harvesting operations for money, they clearly didn't mind them coming back and her mother even expressed remorse over selling their children, but Ashley went in and arranged their deaths first to grab their money and recharge her demonic talisman. While she was also partially motivated by them giving preferential treatment to Andrew and revenge against their sellout-for-profit, that wasn't as much of a primary motive for her. When she eats their flesh with Andrew in the Decay Route, she also tells him that she ate their flesh instead of disposing it in any other way and picking something else to eat because cannibalism makes her feel more powerful.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Andrew being Ashley's Morality Chain doesn't stop her from making him a target for her abuse.
  • Despite Andrew being very clear that he doesn't want to be called Andy anymore, Ashley bothers him with the nickname in Episode 2 even after promising she wouldn't, deeply upsetting Andrew.
  • Another example is the sibling's first deadly argument at the end of Episode 1. Ashley accuses Andrew of killing the Lady in Room 302 because she wouldn't have sex with him. When Andrew denies this, she instead brings up the incident where the siblings accidentally killed Nina as a child, something that pisses Andrew off so much that he nearly chokes her out until Ashley begs him not to.
  • In the Decay Route, part of why Andrew gets so upset with Ashley is that Ashley tells the demon she has no idea why she bothers keeping him around. In contrast, in the Burial Route, Ashley outright warns the Entity she'll never allow it to take Andrew's soul.
• Kiddy Coveralls: She once wore overalls when she was still a kid. And she was very much prone to mischief at the time.
• Kids Are Cruel: Killed another girl by accident during childhood and was happy that she died. Bonus dialogue indicates that she wanted to kill the other girl from the get-go just because she got in her big brother attraction but stuck to her original plan only for her to die anyway.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • Ashley is seemingly incapable of feeling remorse or empathizing with other human beings. Accidentally killing Nina is just like weeding out a potential romantic rival who got in the way of her big brother obsession for her. In the game proper, one could argue that she and Andrew have no choice in the matter due to their circumstances, but Ashley doesn't exhibit any sort of emotional distress about resorting to cannibalism and murder unlike Andrew (and in fact, seems to enjoy it).
  • More broadly, she doesn't understand that people tend to form connections with those around them (despite ironically she was forming one with Andrew himself without even knowing it). When she suggested that she could just live in her parent's house once she killed them, Andrew has to spell out to her that they would have friends, coworkers, and other relatives who sooner or later will look into their disappearance if she did.
• Lady Macbeth: To Andrew, whom she pushes to preform some of the siblings more darker acts like going through with the deadly prank they did on Nina when they were children, eating the body of their dead neighbor, and killing their own parents.
• Laughably Evil: She's a peppy, cheerful and entertaining young woman with a perfected sense of sarcastic humor, but the game doesn't let you forget that this is a Serial Killer, manipulator and abusive sibling so vile that the demon she summoned outright took a liking to her and stroke her a mutual-benefit deal.
• Laughing Mad: Breaks down into hysterical laughter after shooting Andrew in self-defense during one of the possible "Decay" visions.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: An optional scene with the Entity suggests Ashley got her sociopathy from her mother, who has a similarly tarred soul to her own.
• Little Sister Heroine: While downplayed due to the close age of the siblings (22 and 20) there are hints throughout the game, most notably in the second episode, that Andrew is repressing an attraction to Ashley that is both romantic and sexual. This is especially pronounced if Ashley is interpreted to have a more transactional attitude to sex and be willing to use it as a tool to control her brother.
• Manipulative Bastard: Takes advantage of the accidental death of Andy's childhood friend to make sure he does everything she tells her to do and goes out of her way to ostracize him from other people as a child, and can orchestrate elaborate murders and cover-ups as an adult.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Compared to her older brother, Ashley is much less scrupulous and is near-completely devoid of guilt and empathy towards anyone other than him. This allows Ashley to go out of her way to be as depraved as possible in ways that would even make her older brother hesitate. That said, Ashley avoids being the one to make the killing blow and often relies on her brother or the Entity to do the dirty work for her. She finally gets her own hands dirty when she stabs her parents to death, granted they were still alive even after she thought she killed them with the Entity.
• Never My Fault: She continuously blames everyone but herself for whatever troubles she gets into. When Andrew argues with her in Episode 1 about her actions, she claims that, since she ordered him to do some of those things without doing it herself, her hands are clean and the blood is all on him; she even places the sole responsibility for Andrew for killing Nina, which was her idea, for being spineless enough to go along with it. In addition, she thinks her troubled relationship with him is the result of his "floozies/huzzies” (like Nina and Julia) trying to take him away from her rather than, well, she killed his childhood friend on accident, gloated about it right in front of him and used her death to keep him under control.
• Not So Above It All: Despite her having no problems killing people or eating their flesh, when Andrew tries to freak her out with a pile of sludge in the Burial Route, she visibly freaks out and jokingly screams at Andrew that she will kill him.
• One-Person Birthday Party: In one optional flashback in Episode 2, it is revealed that nobody wanted to celebrate Ashley's birthdays, not even her parents. Only Andrew is willing to throw a two-person party where he would buy muffins because he couldn't afford cake as a young child, and the two of them would watch an R-rated movie together. Ashley describes her birthdays as "good ol' bad times."
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Despite being a snarky, sarcastic madwoman of a Serial Killer for most of the time, her vision of her killing Andrew, being killed by Andrew or undergoing a mutual suicide with him in the Decay Route has her show legitimate fear, something that she doesn't do otherwise. Given Andrew becomes outright hostile towards her during that route and is likely going to kill her sooner or later there, she has every reason to fear.
• Perky Goth: A very dark example. Ashley wears dark clothing, yet has a very upbeat and energetic personality most of the time. That said, she is one of the most depraved people in the setting and it speaks volumes when even the demon she summons pretty much acknowledges her for her evil.
• Pet the Dog:
  • While there are implications that the siblings genuinely cared for each other to a certain extent, during the vision of Andrew reaching the end of his tolerance and attempting to slash Ashley's throat in Episode 2's Decay Route where if you didn't spend all your bullets killing the hitman at the start of that chapter, Ashley can choose to accept his decision, playfully teasing him one last time while finally acknowledging Andrew and that he had been fun. While still set on killing Ashley anyways, Andrew accepts this last act of comforting and performs a mutual suicide with her. She's also visibly terrified after waking up from any of the Decay Route visions and was startled when the real world Andrew starts acting just as hostile as the one at the dream, meaning that she did consider him a genuine companion rather than a mere possession. This is especially significant since Ashley is otherwise a horrific Villain Protagonist serial killer with no morals or standards whatsoever.
  • The player can choose to have Ashley share the money in the cult leader's wallet with Andrew, after which he will praise Ashley for her honesty and promise to buy something for her. This puts her in a genuinely good mood.
  • Despite being terrible at cooking, Ashley always tries to make sure Andrew has a "home-cooked meal" to eat.
  • After killing their parents, Ashley wonders if Andrew is okay and tries to get him to talk about his feelings. How successful she is depends on the route.
• Playful Cat Smile: Her usual expression is a :3 with raised eyebrows, both during childhood and as an adult. It emphasizes her childish cruelty and immaturity.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: At her core, Ashley is terrified that Andrew will leave her and manipulates him into doing her bidding to keep him with her forever.
• The Protagonist: You start the game taking control of her and this remains for all of Episode 1. Even in Episode 2 where there are segments where you take control of Andrew, they are limited compared to the segments where you take control of her, and the story is still mostly told in her point-of-view.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Despite being a 20 years old young woman, Ashley acts like she's at least five years younger. She's extremely foul mouthed, calls any girl who tries to go near Andrew as "floozies" or "huzzies", throws childish tantrums if things don't go her way, is implied to Desperately Crave Affection (and didn't care to realize that people don't like her because she is a sociopathic madwoman), has practically zero empathy towards and human being not named Andrew and has a tendency to impulsively act on a whim and getting people killed accidentally or deliberately because of her actions.
• Practically Joker: Ashley has more than a few similarities with the Clown Prince of Crime. She is a deranged, manipulative and surprisingly intelligent serial proxy-killer with a morbid and sarcastic sense of snark and humor, her inner monologue indicates that she is pessimistic and doesn't have too much hope for the future, can be a Large Ham with No Indoor Voice if excited, freaked out or angered, and her default expression is a smug smile that can degenerate into a Slasher Smile or Laughing Mad if she gets really pissed off. She also has a similar Masochism Tango towards her brother Andrew like Joker does with Harley Quinn. That said, she's still a tad more heroic than most examples as her victims are organ-harvesting Mega-Corp cronies and hitmen who deserved their horrible deaths. Even her parents were hardly saints, as they sold her and her brother off to have their organs harvested.
• Psycho Pink: Downplayed in the color department, the only pink she has on is on her irises and her dialogue boxes, but she's definitely the more unhinged of the two siblings.
• Removing the Rival: She will go out of her way to get rid of any girl coming close to Andrew because she's smitten with him, and will go out of her way to be as cruel as possible over it.
• Sadist: From the moment where she brags about causing Nina's death in front of Andrew several times, it's very clear that she delights at getting people seriously injured or killed. In the Decay Route, she also brags to Andrew that she enjoyed cannibalism because it makes her feel superior to other human beings.
• The Scapegoat: Ashley calls Andrew out on needing her to be his scapegoat, even when he suggests or performs amoral actions himself without her prompting them. Her mother also treated her as a scapegoat, calling her wrong from birth.
• Serious Business: Gifts are one of the few things Ashley takes very seriously. If Andrew chooses to buy her a limited edition soda, she finds it disgusting but makes the effort to drink it all despite Andrew telling her she doesn't have to, getting angry at the mere mention of throwing away something gifted to her. Justified when we learn Ashley was never given gifts or had her birthday celebrated as a child except when Andrew would do his best to celebrate with her, making even the smallest gift very significant to her.
• Signature Roar: For the very few scenes where she's really loud, there is a roaring sound effect playing in the background.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Towards Andrew. She displays no interest in anyone other than him and is extremely jealous and possessive about him, accidentally killing Nina after pranking her for daring to have a crush on her brother and sending Andrew's ex Julia 137 voicemails calling her a whore and telling her to kill herself. Subverted in the Burial Route of Episode 2, which suggests Ashley sees sex as more of a tool to keep Andrew by her side than something she seeks out for her own pleasure.
• Skewed Priorities: Constantly:
  • While burying Nina, she's more concerned about what Andy's going to make her for lunch than what they've done.
  • When she discovers The Lady in Room 302's been living a life of luxury in exchange for giving the guards sexual favors, her first thought is wondering why they didn't try the same with her, getting upset at the thought she wasn't pretty enough for them.
• Slashed Throat: Depending on the player's choices in Episode 2, Ashley could see a vision where Andrew becomes fed up with his sister and kills Ashley by slitting her throat with a cleaver. Given she cares about Andrew, this is one of the very few things that visibly shake her to her very core.
• Smarter Than They Look: Ashley might just look like a vapid and crude Perky Goth who acts on a whim and has no qualms killing people and eating them, but the fact that she managed to manipulate her brother into doing everything she says through an Accidental Murder, understands perfectly why her short-sighted plans don't work enough to act accordingly when he tells her about it and can orchestrate complex breakouts, proxy killings, murder-burglaries and cover-ups says otherwise.
• Social Darwinist: A mix of the Weakness Punisher and Straw Meritocrat types. When she and Andrew accidentally murdered Nina, her first comment was that someone so weak as to die after being left in a crate for a single day didn't deserve to live. In the current day, she sees herself as a predator on top of the food chain when she engages in cannibalism.
• The Sociopath: She is completely devoid of empathy and delights in causing death and chaos. She's also legitimately incapable of forming real social connections beyond treating other girls who try to get close to Andrew as roadblocks and annoyances. Even her affection for her brother is also more of an egocentric desire to possess him as she outright relishes the control she has over him, but there is just enough legitimate attachment to him to leash her off from truly killing people, eating them and leaving their bones out in the open without even batting an eye.
• Superior Successor: A very dark example. Mrs. Graves was already somewhat of an awful manipulator, gaslighter and potential sociopath, but she was at least capable of functioning in society. Her daughter on the other hand, inherits most of the same traits aside that she also can't see other girls beyond things to get rid of, cannot make any meaningful social connections, and even the demon she summoned was impressed by her evil. Even worse, it's implied that Mrs. Graves molded her into that sort of person.
• Terrible Artist: Her art skills only amount to crappy children's sketches.
• Troll: In the Burial route, she overhears her mother's accusation that Andrew's having sex with her and deliberately plays up her affection for him as one last fuck you before killing Mrs. Graves.
• The Un Favourite: For obvious reasons, her mother prefers Andrew over her, and Mrs. Graves regrets having such a sociopathic child as her daughter. The feeling is mutual, as Ashley was planning to murder her parents even before finding out she and Andrew were sold off.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied. She wasn't a nice person even when she was young, but the chronologically earliest scene, the lemon muffin birthday dream, shows Ashley behaving like a normal, if rebellious, child. While she is still neglected by her parents and ostracized by her peers, she doesn't have her potty mouth, isn't possessive of Andrew and happily accepts lemon muffins in lieu of a cake when he can't afford it. She still likes watching R-rated movies but this is downplayed as she wants to watch them "because she isn't allowed to".
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Was so evil that the Entity she summoned openly admits that it finds Ashley's soul to be too disgusting to be considered as an offering, but merrily takes that opportunity to aid her instead.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • Ashley calls Andrew out on needing her to hate and blame for his bad decisions, even when they were his idea in the first place (such as eating their neighbor's corpse to survive) or when he knew better but went along with her anyways. Andrew himself doesn't have a good argument against her point.
  • Ashley also calls Andrew out on his lack of direction and apathy, telling him he'd be lost without her. This is similarly difficult for Andrew to refute.
• Wowing Cthulhu: When the unnamed cultist neighbor summons the Entity, it steals his soul instantly because he didn't know what to offer him. However, when Ashley summons it, it instantly recognizes her as having a "Tar Soul", takes the Warden trying to kill her as a sacrifice and gleefully assists her in her future crimes. It's likely that the Entity senses that she's so evil that it's actually impressed.
• Yandere: Ashley despises any woman who might take Andrew away from her and either stalks and harasses them or gets them killed.
• You Are What You Hate: Despite being the victim of a MegaCorp monopoly's organ harvesting operation, Ashley summons demons to consume her victim's souls, messily disposes of the corpses and eats their flesh, sometimes puts innocents in the way of harm, and has a very similar sarcastic quip of humor to the ToxiSoda news reporter. She's essentially like if ToxiSoda was a Serial Killer duo rather than an evil corporation. The monopoly ToxiSoda put on the government, media and healthcare is reflected heavily by her manipulative, possessive desire to put Andrew under her wraps and killing or ruining other girls who even so tries to be friendly with him.

Andrew "Andy" Graves

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The game's Deuteragonist, Andrew is a 22-year-old man who lives with his younger sister, Ashley. He's on the receiving end of her manipulation and often finds himself helping her with her antics.

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• Anti-Villain: While not innocent by any means, he is considerably more sympathetic than Ashley by virtue of showing genuine guilt over their actions, even when many of them are done purely for their own survival. He's ultimately just too much of an Extreme Doormat to actually go against his sister's wishes.
• Believing Their Own Lies: There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Andrew is much more manipulative than he appears and is lying to himself about how much actual control Ashley has over him and how willing he is to participate in their toxic co-dependent relationship. He admits to himself that he's faking his nightmares as an excuse to share a bed with Ashley if he comments on their motel beds and some of his actions and thoughts imply that the Incest Subtext isn't entirely (or even primarily) from Ashley's Big Brother Attraction. He seems to realize this in the "Burial" route.
• Big Brother Bully: Downplayed as their relationship is mutually troubled and codependent, but there are several optional scenes in which Andrew threatens Ashley with physical violence, especially if sexual situations come up in conversation. He also nearly decides to choke her to death at the end of Episode 1.
• Big Brother Instinct: Although Andrew is constantly annoyed and disturbed by Ashley's actions, he is still very protective of his younger sister, something that Ashley takes advantage of. As Warden Malcom found out the hard way, Andrew will not hesitate to kill people to keep his sister safe.
• Boom, Headshot!: Depending on the player's choices in Episode 2, Ashley could see a vision where Andrew meets his demise when he becomes enraged over something Ashley did and tries to kill her, only for Ashley to shoot him in the head with a gun.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: In the Burial Route, Andrew ends Mrs. Graves' attempt at bargaining with him by coldly asking her why she had death certificates in his and Ashley's names. When she fails to justify selling him and Ashley to be harvested for organs, he calls her full of shit and proceeds with the demon-summoning ritual without any remorse.
• Chick Magnet: Andy has a history of girls wanting his attention that Leyley referred to as "Floozies" or "Huzzies", much to her wrath. Unfortunately both of the ones we knew, Nina and Julia, are either killed off unintentionally or driven away by Leyley just because she wants to keep him under wraps, although Julia still contacted him during the quarantine.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Julia, whom he known since they were children and started dating when they entered college together. That is until Julia broke up with him due to Ashley's harassment. A dream sequence has Andrew admitting to himself that he's not bothered by the fact he will never see Julia again, suggesting their relationship was always on questionable grounds.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Andy started off as a timid, but cute pushover. Ashley's corruption and their Dark and Troubled Past leads him on a more and more twisted path into the snarky cannibalistic Serial Killer Andrew of the present day.
• Deadpan Snarker: Andrew is usually critical of Ashley's actions.
• Deuteragonist: While technically a secondary protagonist, he's actually more closer to this, as most of the game is still told in Ashley's pov and he's not controllable as a player character before the second episode, and those moments tend to happen because Ashley ordered him to do complicated work for her.
• Dissonant Serenity: In the Burial Route he's unaffected by his parents' deaths and by disposing of their corpses, confusing and bothering Ashley who expected him to be upset.
• The Ditherer: A combination of the Wishy-Washy, Empathic Fence-Sitter, and Insecure/Submissive. When under stress, Andrew suffers from decision paralysis when he otherwise makes intelligent and carefully thought out decisions. This often leaves Ashley able to set their course of action.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • It's implied that the first deadly argument between him and Ashley at the end of Episode 1 is the first time where he actually grew a spine and actively went against her and her manipulations on his own. She not only accused him of having sex with the Lady he just killed (despite this being obviously not true), but she also gleefully rubs the day where he killed Nina on accident for her prank over it. Justifiably, he's pissed off and she wouldn't survive if his convictions were any stronger than that.
  • Depending on the player's choices in Episode 2, Ashley could receive a vision where Andrew becomes fed up with Ashley's manipulation and either kills her or Ashley is forced to kill Andrew in self-defense, and when the siblings go dispose of their parent's bones, he sounds outright pissed off to her and the meat cleaver at the final cutscene indicates that he is prepared to kill her. This is one of the only things that cause Ashley to experience legitimate fear, something that doesn't happen to her otherwise.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Andrew has grown rather tired of Ashley continuing to call him "Andy", believing they've outgrown their old nicknames. He later forces her to drop the nickname, as well as her own for good as part of his demands that their toxic dynamic change. Ashley's attempts to walk back on that agreement throughout Episode 2 using "Just Joking" Justification puts a heavy strain on their relationship as Andrew views it for what it is and that Ashley doesn't respect him at all.
• Driven to Suicide: In Ashley's vision in the Decay route, he chooses to kill Ashley after he becomes consumed with hate for her, but is driven to kill himself if she turns down self-defence, promising to see her on the other side.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: He calls out Ashley on treating him with no respect despite him protecting her time and time again.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Potentially. Despite willingly assisting Ashley in breaking the law and killing off people who got in her way, in the Decay Route even he believes that her arranged murder on their parents for the sake of money and demonic power is way too overboard, and he's so pissed off that he plans on killing her after her nightmare.
• Extreme Doormat: Despite the fact that Ashley has done... A LOT to him, it's implied that the ending of Episode 1 is the first time he's ever "properly" stood up to her rather than just cussing her out. This is later deconstructed in Episode 2 where it is revealed that while he does love his sister, a big reason why he goes along with everything she tells him to do is because Ashley spent years blackmailing him since childhood to never leave her side otherwise she would expose him in his part for causing Nina's death. By the time Andrew reaches adulthood, following his sister's wishes has become second nature to him, even if he doesn't completely approve of everything she makes him do.
• Facepalm: Two of his sprites have him do a normal one and a double facepalm.
• Fake Relationship: A dev-posted teaser for Episode 3 suggests Andrew only dated Julia to dispel rumors that him and Ashley were together. This is also supported by Andrew's admission in Episode 2 that he isn't bothered by the fact he will never see Julia again, and by his attempt in a flashback to get Julia to wear her hair similarly to Ashley's.
• Grew a Spine: Discussed. Part of why Andrew doesn't want to go by the name Andy anymore is because he hates how spineless he was as a child and how Leyley bossed him around. His actual attempts at growing a spine an standing up to Ashley vary in success depending on the player's choices.
• The Heavy: Andrew does most of the dirty work for the Graves siblings, and is responsible for killing one of the Wardens, The Lady, and Mr. Washing Machine.
• Heroic BSoD: In the Decay route, he's traumatized and broken by his parents' deaths and having to dispose of their corpses, refusing to speak to Ashley and becoming much more bitter and angry about (in his eyes) being stuck with her.
• Hypocrite:
  • Despite his insistence that they bury "Andy" and "Leyley" and his clear displeasure when Ashley calls him "Andy", Andrew himself often slips and calls her Leyley.
  • He calls out Ashley for being jealous and possessive when one of his motives for brutally murdering the Wardens was that they were oogling his sister, he threatens to backhand her if she dares try to make them money by becoming a call girl, and says he doesn't need a justification to grab her ass at any time.
• Kick the Dog: His treatment of Julia, who was ostensibly his girlfriend. He entered a relationship with her despite knowing he felt nothing for her, knew that Ashley was stalking and harassing her but ignored it, and felt nothing upon seeing her in a dream sequence despite knowing he'd never see her again. Even worse, his final words to her were denying any culpability over Ashley driving her to self-harm and a botched suicide attempt.
• Lack of Empathy: Not as much as Ashley, but Andrew isn't nearly as upset as a normal, healthy person should be about some of the things he's done. He immediately tries to deflect blame when his girlfriend breaks up with him and admits to himself in a dream he's not really bothered much by the idea of never seeing Julia again. In the Burial route, even Ashley is surprised at how little disposing of their parents' corpses bothers him. The only time this is averted is with Nina's death, where he was genuinely disturbed and distressed.
• Like Father, Like Son: He is just as much of an apathetic pushover as his father is, though he gained his mother's snark. Optional dialogue has Andrew disgustedly Lampshade it.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To the extreme for Ashley. In the Questionable Burial route, Ashley shows she wants Andrew to be everything to her - Her best friend, parent, brother, and lover.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Compare to his psychotic sister. Andrew at least feels some level of guilt for his actions and normally doesn't go out of his way to hurt people for petty reasons like his sister. That said, Andrew is far from innocent. Shortly after killing Warden Malcom, Andrew attempts to physically intimidate Ashley into helping him avoid punishment and only stops when Ashley points out she would also get in trouble for her act of cannibalism, and when he arranges his parent's murders for Ashley, he shows that he can be just as manipulative as Ashley when he wants to be.
• Mark of the Beast: The Burial Route ends with Andrew getting the symbol of the Entity marked on his right palm, implying that he is being targeted by the Entity after using its trinket to try to share Ashley's vision.
• Mask of Sanity: He appears to be outwardly much more normal than Ashley, but some of his actions in Episode 1 and his inner monologue in Episode 2 reveal he's much more psychologically disturbed than he shows or admits, contrasting Ashley's blatant sociopathy.
• Momma's Boy: Played with. His mother clearly loves him more than Ashley. However, this doesn't stop Mrs. Graves from selling him off to an Organ Theft operation, nor stop Andrew from helping Ashley sacrifice their mother's soul to the Entity in retaliation. But depending on the player's choices in Episode 2, his mother can almost succeed in Talking the Monster to Death, in which case, her demise will cause a massive strain on his relationship with Ashley.
• Morality Chain: In a sense, he's this to his younger sister by making sure that she's less sociopathic than she already is. Notably, the only person she ever shows any empathy towards is him.
• Never My Fault: His Fatal Flaw, something that Ashley gleefully takes full advantage of. If there is one thing that Andrew fears above anything else, it is taking accountability for his actions. His refusal to take responsibility has lead him to be blackmailed for years by Ashley to stay by her side or else she would turn him in for his part in causing Nina's death. He blames Ashley for "making" him do anything evil; Ashley did manipulate and blackmail him using his childhood friend's death, but he has every right to refuse to go along and chooses not to. His last words to Julia after she broke up with him are that he shouldn't be held accountable for Ashley's harassment of her, even if he could have done something about it other than allowing Ashley to do whatever she wants to and chose not to. Not even Ashley herself is safe from the length Andrew is willing to go to avoid facing the consequences of his crimes, as he has made it clear that he will kill Ashley if she puts him in danger of getting caught and is willing to physically assault her to get his point across.
• Not Helping Your Case: Andrew repeatedly claims he's not into Ashley, but calls the idea of them committing suicide together romantic and unpromptedly grabs her ass while discussing murdering their parents (which their mother catches). Played for Laughs in the Questionable Burial route, where Ashley overhears her mother accusing them of Brother–Sister Incest and plays it up by rushing over to Andrew and kissing him on the cheek and calling him handsome right after he denies it, mortifying him.
• Outgrowing the Childish Name: Considering the fact he doesn't like to be called Andy anymore and his belief that their childhood nicknames have gotten old, he'd prefer to be called Andrew.
• Promotion to Parent: Deconstructed. His mother intended for Andrew to play this straight when she emotionally abandoned Ashley. While things went well enough at first, with Andrew doing his best to look after her needs and Ashley looking up to him for emotional support, once Ashley develops her Big Brother Attraction after realizing no one else likes her it all goes to Hell from there. Ashley began exerting her greater will on her pliant brother while exploiting his fear of taking responsibility for failing to control her to force him to stay around her. The end result being a toxic codependency with Ashley developing fully into a vile sociopath and Andrew's Fatal Flaw consuming his decisions.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Downplayed in that he is less psychotic than Ashley, but still uses a cleaver as his weapon of choice and used it in all the murders he committed except one, where he needed to get the jump on another Psycho Knife Nut.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed. While he's more sensible than Ashley for the most part and is only forced by Ashley to do her dirty work over a childhood obligation, he refuses to acknowledge any responsibilities of his worst actions and pins them all down to her manipulations despite being able to refuse, something that Ashley points out at the end of Episode 1.
• Reluctant Psycho: His dream sequences and inner monologue during Episode 2 suggest he knows he's not normal or well-adjusted and tries to suppress his Lack of Empathy and attraction to Ashley to varying degrees of success.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • He forcibly stops Ashley midway through her attempt to Break Them by Talking in Episode 1 by threatening to choke her to death.
  • In the Burial route he sees through what he perceives as his mother's attempts to manipulate him, coldly threatening her with his cleaver and asking why she had death certificates made out in his and Ashley's names.
• So Proud of You: He doesn't say it to her directly, but after watching the botched summoning of Lord Unknown, he remarks how impressive it is that 'his' Ashley managed to summon a demon on her first try, unlike the various cultists the duo have witnessed. Amusingly, he immediately realises that this probably shouldn't be something to take pride in.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Andrew is a fairly handsome, dark-haired young man who also happens to be a Deadpan Snarker.
• That Man Is Dead: He tries to claim this with his old nickname. How successful it is depends on the route.
• Together in Death: In the Decay route, Andrew can kill Ashley before offing himself, promising to see her on the other side.
• Trapped in Villainy: Though Episode 1 firmly establishes Andrew as the doormat in the siblings' toxic relationship, in the Decay route Andrew can confess to feeling hopelessly "stuck" to both Ashley and their murderous path to the future.
• Troubled, but Cute: Andrew had plenty of girls who admire him despite his gloomy and snarky personality. Unfortunately, his sister's repeated vicious attacks on anyone who gets close to him ended that.
• Unreliable Narrator: There's a great deal of evidence that Andrew is much more psychologically disturbed than he wants to admit, as well as cutscenes showing him being blatantly attracted to Ashley despite his repeated insistence that he's not.

The Graves Parents

Both Parents

• Abusive Parents: Of the neglectful variant. They sold off their children to an Organ Theft operation in exchange for a large sum of money in a life insurance scam. Ashley's dream sequence in the Burial Route (if you go for the questionable route) also gives some extremely bleak implications on how poorly they treated their daughter (she wasn't allowed to sit with her family at mealtimes and never had her birthday celebrated, for starters). While Andrew was treated much better, his father was so absent from their lives he doesn't even remember Andrew's name.
• Alas, Poor Villain: They most likely deserved it, but in the Decay route, Ashley killing them is less of a cathartic moment for Andrew but more of a Rage Breaking Point for him to lose his tolerance for Ashley as she kills off the last person who (probably) cared about him to a certain extent.
• Arc Villain: They could be considered this for most of Episode 2, if you can even call them villains and not just really bad Jerkasses. After dealing with Mr. Washing Machine, Ashley decides that she wants to rob her parents to get the money they need to go into hiding and to recharge her talisman. Then they discover that their parents sold them to an Organ Theft operation, giving them an extra incentive of getting their revenge on them.
• Asshole Victim: Zigzagged. It is all but outright stated that Mr. and Mrs. Graves sold Andrew and Ashley to an Organ Theft operation so they can get rich on their children's life insurance money and are a pair of degenerates, but Ashley clearly went to sacrifice them for money and power. Depending on the player's choices, their death can cause a massive strain on the siblings' relationship and get Andrew to turn against his sister, or he can be fully on board and their relationship will improve... assuming if you don't interpret that as him discarding his humanity for his even more abusive sister. Ultimately, exactly how much they deserved their fate is left up to the player to decide.
• Big Fancy House: Ashley and Andrew were surprised to discover their parents are living in a large house in a nice neighborhood shortly after the siblings were put in quarantine. They likely brought it by selling them off to be butchered through one of ToxiSoda's life insurance scams.
• Casual Kink: Both Mr. and Mrs. Graves are heavily implied to practice BDSM as their sexual kink, as Ashley and Andrew find a rope and a plethora of sex toys stored in their closet along with Mrs. Graves's sexy lingerie in the basement. Andrew would also notice the signs of rope burns on his father's wrists. Naturally, both siblings are disgusted by the evidence of their parent's sexual practices.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being repugnant people, the Graves clearly love each other.
• Happily Married: While they are unquestionably terrible parents to their children, Mr. and Mrs. Graves do seem to genuinely love each other, as they have a pretty active sex life and mutually show concern for their partner when Ashley cuts one of them to extract blood for a ritual.
• Human Sacrifice: Ashley gleefully sacrifices their souls to the Entity to recharge her demonic talisman and grab their money. It's suggested that them sacrificing their children to ToxiSoda and neglecting Ashley when she was young was a second incentive.
• Hope Spot: After Mr. and Mrs. Graves had their souls stolen by the Entity, Andrew and Ashley would discover that their bodies are still alive but are not completely dead. This initially sets up the possibility that they can be brought back, only for Ashley to stab the soulless bodies to make sure they stay dead. Depending on the player's choices, this can be especially upsetting to Andrew or a relief to him.
• Karmic Death:
  • They sold their children to have their organs harvested for money. Ashley and Andrew eventually sell their souls to the Entity and take their money, doing exactly what they did back to them. Andrew even notes in his eulogy in the Sane Burial route that they did exactly what their parents did back to them.
  • To a certain extent, they neglected their daughter because they saw that she will become a horrific scourge. She becomes exactly that (implied to be because they neglected her) and kills them for money and revenge.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Ashley comes back to take revenge on them for their neglect of her. Them selling their children out to be butched for money was an extra incentive.
• Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: Mr. Graves has a fairly generic appearance and isn't given a character portrait, unlike his wife who clearly had more thought put into her appearance.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Discussed by the Graves Siblings when they wonder why their mother didn't just report them the second they invaded her home. Andrew reasons that Mr. and Mrs. Graves would get into legal trouble if their supposedly dead children showed up after they just collected and spent their life insurance policies, so their best hope is to convince their children to leave and not come back. True that, Mrs Graves almost immediately tries to get her children to leave after dinner despite them having lost all their belongings when their apartment burned to the ground, but does not bother calling the authorities at all.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: A trait that they share with their children.
• Soulless Shell: After Andrew and Ashley sacrifice them to the Entity, they were left soulless husks. The siblings thought that they were dead and just wanted to leave their bodies behind, but upon realizing this, they decide to messily dispose of the corpses instead.
• Strong Family Resemblance: As mentioned earlier, the siblings inherited most of their looks from Mrs. Graves, both having her messy dark hair, facial features, and Andrew having her green eyes (but in much darker shade, likely influenced by Mr. Graves darker eyes), while Ashley having Mr. Graves pink eyes (but in much brighter shade, also likely influenced by Mrs. Graves brighter eyes).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Andrew was such a good and well-behaved kid that it made his parents want to have a second. Their second turns out to be a monster.

Mrs. Graves

The 37-year-old matriarch of the Graves Family who has a strained relationship with her children, especially her daughter that she views as being pure evil.

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• Absurdly Youthful Mother: Mrs. Graves is only 37-years-old despite having children in their early 20s. Both her children came to be as a result of Teen Pregnancy. Deconstructed in that Mrs. Graves herself admits she wasn't emotionally mature enough to take care of her children at such a young age, especially her sociopathic daughter.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Mrs. Graves has dark hair, and is at best, an indifferent parent.
• Ambiguous Situation: Whether she's genuinely remorseful for selling her children to be harvested for their organs is up for debate. There are hints that imply she is remorseful, as well as hints that imply she's lying to get Andrew to let her go.
• Deadpan Snarker: Apparently, Andrew and Ashley take after their mother in regards to snarky personality. She makes all kinds of hilariously snippy remarks as her children tie her up and prepare the ritual to sacrifice her and her husband's souls to a demon.
• Defiant to the End: If the player has Ashley watch over her, Mrs. Graves has no apologies for her, painting herself as a saintly mother faced with her sociopath of a daughter. Only the Entity's summoning manages to rattle her.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Mrs. Graves is shocked if Andrew refuses to give up on Ashley and immediately assumes Andrew must be having sex with her to willingly choose her, unable to comprehend that he might hold genuine affection for his sister. Given the whimsical music that plays whenever this happens, it's likely to be Played for Laughs.
• Evil Matriarch: More leaning to the "Jerkass" matriarch side, with a tint of legitimate "evil". She left her children for dead to an organ harvesting operation and profited off their supposed demise. She does express guilt over what she did, but it’s made ambiguous if her apology is genuine or not. She also gives Andrew preferential treatment compared to Ashley.
• Establishing Character Moment: When she is introduced in Episode 1 early on in a flashback, we see just what a poor mother she is when she abandons her kids in their apartment and moves to a new house, then later cuts off all contact with her kids after telling Ashley to stop “lying” about them starving.
• Gaslighting:
  • She tells Ashley to "stop lying" when she begs her mother for help when her and Andrew are starving to death despite knowing full well Ashley is telling the truth about their situation.
  • She claims she was a "saint" of a mother and that Ashley was at fault for everything in their lives. This is despite flashbacks showing that she wouldn't allow her to join the rest of their family at mealtime and wouldn't celebrate her birthday or buy her presents, which turned her into the depraved scourge she is nowadays.
• Gone Horribly Wrong:
  • She pawned off Ashley onto Andrew, expecting him to parent her. Not only did Ashley become resentful and psychopathic as a result of this neglect, but Andrew, who was formerly a model child, became more mentally disturbed and an Extreme Doormat to his sister's whims.
  • In the Burial route, her attempts at trying to convince Andrew to let her and her husband go do nothing but turn him fully against them when before he had doubts about killing them, remarking to himself that she's "full of shit as usual".
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Possibly. Towards the end of Episode 2, Mrs. Graves seems to have some guilt over her actions and was seemingly going to try to make amends with Andrew, only for Ashley to enact her plan to sacrifice their parents to a demon before Mrs. Graves had a chance to talk to her son in private. Should Andrew choose not to accept, he refuses because he isn’t convinced her apology is genuine, but just an attempt to weasel out of her fate. She however, does not have such leeway for Ashley if she watches over her parents instead, being utterly unapologetic and makes out her behavior to have been saintly throughout the entire conversation, either because she was indeed lying about being remorseful, or she just didn't like her to begin with and was Defiant to the End.
• Hidden Depths: An optional side area in Ashley's dream on the Decay Route contains the Entity and four souls, corresponding to the Entity's four victims. One of the souls is dark gray in color, which the Entity calls an "unhatched" tar soul (and says Ashley's soul is much darker). Examining the white soul next to it will have the narrator remark that the two souls appear to be in love with each other, implying that they're the souls of the Graves' parents. Given that Mr. Graves is as much of an Extreme Doormat as Andrew, he's most likely the white soul, meaning the darker soul is most likely Mrs. Graves, indicating that she had the potential to turn out just as evil as her daughter but for whatever reason didn't, either because she had enough self-control to not act on her darker impulses, or was simply killed before they ever had the chance to "hatch" within her.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard:
  • She neglected Ashley because she feared that she was going to be evil. It's implied that her neglect turned her into exactly the thing Mrs. Graves feared, and she promptly kills her and her husband for money.
  • In the Burial Route, Mrs. Graves's attempted manipulation/peace-talk can fail completely and fully turn Andrew against her (when before he had doubts), making him freely decide to support Ashley over his neglectful parents with no remorse.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: As much as she denies it, she has a tendency to gaslight Ashley, blaming her for all the family's woes while she unintentionally engineered the conditions that caused Ashley to become even more evil than her. She's also the one in charge of the family just like Ashley was the dominant sibling.
• Lack of Empathy: She tries to get her children to leave her home after dinner despite knowing they had no place to go and all their belongings had been destroyed.
• Manipulative Bitch: One interpretation of her conversation with Andrew was that she tried to drive a wedge between Andrew and Ashley by being unapologetic and emotionally unavailable to Ashley while feigning remorse and kindness towards Andrew. Andrew can choose to see through it or take it by face value, wanting to free his parents but feeling trapped by Ashley's side.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In the Burial Route, Mrs. Graves confesses to Andrew she royally screwed up as a parent after seeing how Ashley and Andrew turned out and suspects that they might be in an incestuous relationship, especially when they are about to sacrifice her to a demon. This is in contrast to Mr. Graves who doesn't even realize he is a bad parent until his wife has to spell it out for him. However, the fact that she immediately tries to convince Andrew to free them after apologizing makes it ambiguous if her apology was genuine or, as Andrew suspects in the Burial Route, just an insincere last-ditch attempt at evading the consequences of their horrible parenting.
• Never My Fault: She completely blames Ashley for corrupting Andrew and calls herself a saint for putting up with her (a trait that she ironically shares with his son, who also blames everything he did over her daughter manipulating him). While Ashley could very well have been born a sociopath, Mrs. Graves refuses to consider the possibility that her own neglect and mistreatment of Ashley contributed to her becoming the very beast she feared she will become. She at least apologizes to Andrew for making him raise Ashley, but in the Burial Route Andrew suspects this is just her trying to get on his good side and save herself.
• Parental Favoritism: Mrs. Graves clearly prefers her son over her daughter. In one option flashback in Episode 2, it is revealed that not only would she ban Ashley from sitting and eating with the family, she would celebrate Andrew's birthdays, but not Ashley's — turns out she noticed something wrong with her daughter. If the player chooses Ashley to be the one to be left alone with her parents to set up the ritual, Mrs. Graves remains defiant and accuses Ashley of "brainwashing" her brother. By contrast, if the player chooses Andrew, Mrs. Graves attempts Talking the Monster to Death to her son and offers an apology for making him parent Ashley.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Ashley accuses her of not turning in her children for Nina's murder because she was worried about her own reputation. She also doesn't immediately call the police when her children break into her home, which Andrew points out is because she already claimed their life insurance money and didn't want to be implicated in a fraud case.
• Sarcastic Confession: She attempts to get help from her bank's customer service rep through one, saying he's being held at gunpoint, but the rep assumes she's joking. Ashley figures out what she was trying to do and is not amused.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Mrs. Graves figured out that her children caused Nina's death, but chose not to report them as she initially didn't want them to be taken away from her. Ashley cynically points out that Mrs. Graves was likely more concerned about protecting her own reputation, as she didn't want to be known as the mother of a pair of murderers, but given Ashley was going to kill her to take all of her money and recharge the trinket the Entity gave her and revenge was a secondary incentive, the legitimacy of this claim is dubious.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: She could tell something was wrong with Ashley since birth, but it's heavily implied her neglect and scapegoating of Ashley for being "wrong" made things much worse, molding Ashley into the unrepentant sociopath she is in the present day. Even worse, her making Andrew take care of Ashley made her formerly well-behaved child into an unempathetic cannibal murderer alongside his sister.
• "Success Through Sex" Accusation: Mrs. Graves assumes Ashley trades sexual favors with her brother for his loyalty if he rejects her offer to leave his life with Ashley behind. Based on Andrew's response and the BGM, this was likely intended to be comedic.
• Teen Pregnancy: Mrs. Graves gave birth to Andrew when she was only 15 years old and Ashley when she was 17.
• Unkempt Beauty: Mrs. Graves looks slightly worn out and keeps her hair tied in a messy ponytail, but it is pretty clear that she's still pretty good looking without the eyebags.
• Unreliable Narrator: The narrative makes it very ambiguous if her confession to Andrew was real or a mere manipulation tactic and both interpretations are plausible.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Despite being a terrible mother and Ashley's own assumptions, she does genuinely care about her husband and reacts violently if he is ever hurt. If the player has Ashley cut her father with a knife to get blood for a summoning ritual, Mrs. Graves acts more aggressively than if she's cut herself. Ashley has to threaten her mother with a gun to get her to calm down.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: She has yellowish light green eyes and has a lot of skeletons in her closet regarding her children.

Mr. Graves

The Graves Siblings' weak-willed and inattentive father.

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• Accidental Misnaming: In one flashback, he calls his son "Anders" instead of Andrew as evidence of how much of a neglectful father he has been.
• Bad Liar: He very unconvincingly tries to tell Andrew he "wasn't going to jump off the balcony" after losing his job and standing very near the ledge.
• Bumbling Dad: He is a woefully incompetent father who is completely ignorant to his children's emotional and mental needs. In one flashback, a troubled young Andrew can try to approach his father, only for Mr. Graves to talk about his own troubles of losing his latest job instead of attending to his clearly upset son. Additionally, Mr. Graves is somehow surprised when he is told that he is a bad parent even after leaving selling his children to an Organ Theft operation.
• The Ditz: Even by Bumbling Dad standards. Mr. Graves doesn't know his own children's names (much less their personalities), is completely oblivious to strange situations such as Andrew breaking into his room and going through his sex toys, and can't keep down a steady job.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Mr. Graves is so neglectful of his children that he misname Andrew as "Anders", and was genuinely surprised when forced to face the truth on how they turned out. This is a sharp contrast to Mrs. Graves who knew her children very intimately, but was unwilling to do anything about them.
• Dull Surprise: His reaction when he reunites with his children for the first time in months and sees that they are still alive, as Andrew would put it, "with all the enthusiasm of a dead fish."
• Extreme Doormat: Apparently, Andrew inherited his "doormat extraordinaire" traits from his father. Andrew mentions that his father always followed his mother's whims.
• George Jetson Job Security: An optional talk between him and young Andrew during a flashback would reveal that he has a history of not being able to hold down a steady job for very long. This might explain why he and his wife sold their children for a big cash payout.
• Henpecked Husband: His wife clearly calls all the shots in their relationship, and it's implied that he is the submissive partner in bed.
• Hidden Depths: For what it's worth, he did stay by his wife's side even after he got her pregnant when she was just a teenager, and at least did try to financial support his struggling family despite his inability to hold down a steady job. Although, according to his children, he only did the bare minimum as a parent.
• Interrupted Suicide: In one of Andrew's flashbacks, we see Mr. Graves nearly about to commit suicide after losing his job, only stopping because Andrew walked onto the balcony and started talking to him.
• Like Father, Like Son: When it comes to being an Extreme Doormat to their female partners. Andrew isn't at all pleased when he realized that he has become just like his father.
• Never My Fault: He backs up his wife in saying that they were wonderful parents and had absolutely no role in their children becoming disturbed maniacs, despite the very strong indications that their abuse and neglect is exactly what made Ashley (and by extension, Andrew) that way.
• Prelude to Suicide: There are hints during the lemon muffin scene that part of his apathy and general uselessness comes from a deep depression and he may have even been considering jumping off the balcony.
• Satellite Love Interest: Mr. Graves doesn't have many onscreen interactions with his children or even a character portrait. He is really just there to be his wife's husband.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: His denial to Andrew that he "wasn't going to jump off the balcony" after losing his job and staring at the pavement below their apartment.

Other Characters

Andrew's former friends

Nina

The Graves Siblings' asthmatic, childhood friend who had a crush on Andrew and unintentionally gained young Ashley's ire.

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• Accidental Murder: Andy and Leyley didn't intentionally kill her with their prank and Leyley (the one who came up with the prank) only wanted to teach her a lesson not to stand between her and her brother's way. Unbeknown to them, she has asthma, so she died from it. That said, Leyley was delightful that she got rid of her and took advantage of her death to turn Andy into her own possession and hitman, and an Easter Egg dialogue reveals that she contemplated on convincing her to kill, or at least fatally injure herself outright but went against it. Their parents also know what happened to Nina very well, but chose to cover it up just to not be known as the parents of murderers.
• Best Friend: In Episode 2 we learn that Nina was Julia's best friend, while Ashley was just a hanger-on.
• Death of a Child: Nina was likely in grade school when she had her fatal asthma attack, making her death all the more tragic.
• Delicate and Sickly: It's indicated that she was suffering from a dust allergy and is prone to asthma attacks. After being trapped in a box by Andy and Leyley, she died because of it.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her pigtails emphasize her youthful and innocent nature, especially when compared to Leyley.
• The Lost Lenore: Andrew denies returning Nina's feelings and his biggest concern upon finding out about her death is the fear that he and Ashley will be seperated if they are caught. However, Nina is also the only victim of him and Ashley that Andrew expresses remorse over. Come the events of the game, he's still not over it.
• Kill the Cutie: Nina was an innocent young girl who just wanted to spend time with her crush. Sadly, this is enough motivation for Leyley to want to get revenge on her, and she convinces her brother to trap Nina in a box for a night as a cruel prank. Poor Nina, unfortunately, suffocated to death due to an asthma attack as a result of the box being filled with dust.
• Posthumous Character: She was accidentally killed by the siblings prior to the start of the game in a "prank" gone wrong, and is only shown in flashbacks.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Her role and death in the story is to make it very clear that Ashley is an utterly depraved maniac, being her most innocent victim whom she manipulated her brother to accidentally kill while they were still children, and whose death was taken advantage of by her to turn her brother into her own proxy-killer.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Although she is a Posthumous Character, it is revealed in Episode 2 that Ashley has been using Nina's accidental death as a way to blackmail Andrew into remaining subservient to her throughout most of their lives, setting up the foundation of their toxic relationship.
• Unperson: Her name is barred out with four underscores in Ashley's flashbacks in Episode 1, and in newer versions of the game, she has a full-body portrait that has her eyes blackened out. This does not happen in Andrew's flashbacks, where her name is shown and her full face can be seen in a cutscene, or in Ashley's dream sequences, where she is depicted as a normal rabbit just like the others.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: She forms the purple of the pair with Julia, her best friend, having a yellow color motif. This paints them as a pair, with Ashley (in pink) being left out.
• Youthful Freckles: Her freckles highlight her youth and innocence at the time she was murdered.

Julia

Andrew's girlfriend who broke up with him over the phone in episode 1. She was also close friends with Nina during her childhood.

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• Best Friend: To Nina whom Julia still misses to this day.
• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Ashley's Veronica for Andrew's Archie. Naturally, Julia would be the more socially acceptable and healthier romantic choice for Andrew.
• Break the Cutie: Ashley really put this poor girl through the wringer. First, she accidentally killed her childhood best friend and was happy about it. When she dated Andrew, Ashley would endlessly stalk and send hundreds of death threats to Julia. It is heavily implied that the harassment got so bad that Julia started to perform Self-Harm and possibly attempted a Bungled Suicide. Despite the fact that he knows how badly Ashley has been tormenting Julia, Andrew refuses to defend his girlfriend, not seeing it as his problem. Then, her boyfriend got sent to quarantine and Julia waited months for him to return. After having all that time herself to think it over, Julia decides to break it off with Andrew so as not to deal with Ashley anymore.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Andrew, whom she known since they were children. Their relationship doesn't last due to a combination of Ashley's harassment, Andrew's unwillingness to stand up to his sister, and months of waiting for Andrew to come out of quarantine.
• Clothing-Concealed Injury: It's implied that the armwarmers she wears hide the self-harm wounds caused by Leyley's repeated bullying beneath them.
• Good Counterpart: Seemly set up to be one for Ashley, both being dark haired Perky Goths who are the younger sisters among their respective siblings, and have a strong love for Andrew. However, the former is a genuine sweetheart, but the latter is an utterly depraved maniac. There is also the unfortunate implication that Andrew dated Julia because of her resemblance to Ashley.^note Along with her resemblance, Andrew once asked Julia if she could tie her hair up, the way Ashley styles her hair.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers her left eye, and she is shown to be a very nervous and meek woman, likely as a result of Ashley's cruel bullying toward Julia.
• In the Hood: She wore a hood as a teenager along with her covered hair, showing she's a fearful and nervous person.
• Nervous Wreck: She is constantly stuttering, awkward, and apologetic around Andrew, even after they've been in a relationship for years.
• Perky Goth: She wears dark clothing and has black hair like Ashley, but unlike her, she is an innocent and sweet woman to her boyfriend before they broke up.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Like the Graves Siblings, she has pale skin, dark hair, and is just as attractive as them.
• Self-Harm: One of Ashley's voice messages to Julia claims that Julia has been cutting herself to cope with all the harassment that Ashley has been putting her through and that Julia might have had a Bungled Suicide at one point.
• Slut-Shaming: Poor Julia was on the receiving end of this from Ashley as part of her endless harassment to get her to break up with Andrew.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: She forms the yellow of the pair with Nina, her best friend, having a purple color motif. This paints them as a pair, with Ashley (in pink) being left out.
• Youthful Freckles: She has several freckles on the bridge of her nose, and is another one of Andy's childhood friend Leyley went out of her way to ruin.

Demons

In General

Supernatural beings summoned through Satanic rituals.

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• Blood Magic: Demons can only be summoned through fresh human blood, animal blood will not work. This is why Ashley manages to summon a Demon by cutting people and using their blood to draw circles, while the Six Eyes Cult cannot.
• Humans Are Insects: They don't think too much about humans, so they'll only get the job done if it's easy and quick for them. Ashley comments that they have much in common with her when Andrew brings it up.
• Human Sacrifice: Human souls make ideal offerings for Demons.
• Our Demons Are Different: They look nothing like the stereotypical Big Red Devil or Horned Humanoid but more like some Eldritch Abomination that came straight out from Eversion.

The Entity

A mysterious, demonic being that was summoned by the Graves Siblings' cultist neighbor and killed him because he did not have the proper offerings. Ashley summons it to kill the second Warden right after, but this time, it took a liking to her (likely because it sensed how evil she is) and assists her in her crimes.

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• Aura Vision: The Entity is capable of seeing the color of peoples' souls and claims that Ashley's soul is the color of tar.
• Deal with the Devil: It offers Ashley a deal where she will be given a vision of the future that can warn her of upcoming dangers in exchange for every soul she offers. After seeing the benefits of clairvoyance when dealing with Mr. Washing Machine, Ashley accepts the offer and gleefully targets her parents over it, even before she found out her parents sold her to be harvested for organs.
• Detect Evil: It can seemingly see if someone is genuinely evil or not, shown when it refers to Ashley as having a "tar soul" and her mother as having an "unhatched" tar soul.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: The Burial Route ends with Andrew gaining an eye mark on his hand after trying to share in Ashley's visions by holding her talisman, implying the Entity's taken a dangerous interest in him.
• Expecting Someone Taller: The cultist is shocked at first that the demon he summoned was so small. Compared to Lord Unknown it is positively tiny.
• No Name Given: The name of the entity has yet to be revealed and displayed as "???" in the text box. It doesn't even give Ashley their name after she offered up Dave as a sacrifice.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Possibly. It originally does not take Ashley's soul as an offering, considering it too tarred, and offers her a gift instead. Its later acceptance of Mrs. Graves' soul and interest in Andrew's soul, however (which are not as dark as Ashley's but still much, much darker than most), suggests it does take Tar Souls. This hints the Entity might have deliberately spared Ashley knowing it could get more souls with her alive.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: It's Obviously Evil with its red and black form.
• Red Herring: Episode 2 sets up this being as the Six Eyes cult's object of worship, Lord Unknown. However, in an optional scene, Ashley can summon the real Lord Unknown by fixing the cult's botched ritual, suggesting the two are separate demons.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Implied to be the main reason why the neighbor was trying to summon this thing. Ashley would later summon it again in order for it to kill Warden Dave.
• Super-Hearing: The Entity doesn't need the cultist neighbour's creepy music to be summoned, it just makes the summoner easier to find. When Ashley summons it the second time, it was able to find and track her down through her talisman even if Ashley did not have the Six Eyes Cult's creepy music with her.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: How it seems to kill its victims. If the person who summons the demon fails to prepare an offering beforehand the Entity will steal that person's soul. Episode 2 would reveal that the act of sealing people's souls doesn't actually kill a person's body, but leaves them an Empty Shell.

Lord Unknown

A supposedly powerful demonic being who is the subject of worship by the Six Eyes cult.

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• Ambiguously Evil: Despite Lord Unknown's intimidating appearance, it isn't clear at this time if this thing is truly evil. Compared to the Entity that will steal the soul of its summoner if an offering isn't prepared, Lord Unknown doesn't do anything to harm the people who summoned it. When the Graves Siblings summoned it, Lord Unknown just tries to unsuccessfully communicate with them, becomes bored after no form of communication can be established, and then just quietly leaves.
• Botanical Abomination: For whatever little we do see it, it resembles some sort of gigantic baobab tree with three eyes and numerous arms.
• Red Herring: At the beginning of Episode 2, the player is led to believe that the Entity and Lord Unknown are the same beings. But should Andrew and Ashley return to the cult's hideout and summon the demon, it is made pretty clear Lord Unknown is a different being from the first demon they encountered.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Subverted. If they are still being pursued by Mr. Washing Machine, Andrew and Ashley can attempt to try to summon this demon in hopes that it can help them take care of the hitman. However, since the demon is The Unintelligible, the siblings are unable to make a deal with the being, resulting in the demon leaving after it becomes bored.
• The Unintelligible: Unlike the Entity, Lord Unknown seems incapable of talking to humans, and thus the Graves siblings couldn't ask it for a favor. This resulted in Lord Unknown becoming bored and returning to its realm.

Apartment Complex

Malcom and Dave

A pair of government wardens who are in charge of overseeing the quarantined residents of the apartment complex where the Graves Siblings live. They serve as the main antagonists of Episode 1.

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• Arc Villain: They're the ones responsible for starving the residents of the Graves apartment to death for one of ToxiSoda's organ harvesting operations.
• Asshole Victim: Malcom is killed by Andrew with a meat cleaver, while Dave is sacrificed to a demon by Ashley. Considering that the wardens were starving the residents for an organ harvesting scheme (except the one they were having sex with) and were just generally unpleasant people, you can’t exactly feel sorry for them. During his dream sequence in Episode 2, Andrew admits that he wished he gave Malcom a more painful death.
• Evil Duo: Both of them are the wardens of the quarantined apartment complex who starve or sexually extort the people under their care.
• Hate Sink: They're made to be pretty much as despicable as possible, making it much easier to root for the Graves siblings in spite of their already plentiful crimes.
• Human Sacrifice: How Ashley takes care of Dave, by offering his soul to the Entity. They deserved it.
• Organ Theft: Once the sibling escaped their apartment, they would discover that the wardens have been purposely starving the quarantined residents to harvest their organs after they died of hunger.
• Sadist: They both seem to take some cruel enjoyment over having control of the lives of the residents in the apartment complex, mockingly asking if the people under their care died of starvation during routine checkups and promising food that they don't intend to deliver.
• Sex Signals Death: The wardens have been preforming Sexual Extortion on some of the residents of the apartment complex. The siblings use this against Dave to lure him to his death by setting up a Honey Trap, while Malcom is killed by Andrew shortly before their immoral actions are revealed.
• Sexual Extortion: Andrew and Ashley would discover that the wardens would only give luxury items and extra food to the female residents who agreed to have sex with them and/or those that had valuable blood types.
• Starter Villain: They are the first antagonists that the siblings have to deal with.

The Neighbor

Andrew and Ashley's next-door neighbor who is trap in the same quarantined apartment complex as the siblings. He spends most of his time trying to summon a mysterious demon.

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• Affably Evil: He can be met in one of Andrew's dream sequences, where he's pretty friendly towards Andrew and expresses joy that he gets to witness Andrew's serial killing, cannibalistic journey.
• Ambiguously Evil: He does summon a demon in a satanic ritual, but it seems he was desperate and all he wanted was a way to get out of his apartment before he starved to death.
• An Arm and a Leg: Posthumously. When the Graves Siblings decided to eat his body after he is killed by the Entity, they ended up having to cut off all his limbs to both transport the meat back to their own apparent and store the body parts in the fridge. He can also show up in Andrew's dreams as disembodied parts.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns as ghost in Andrew's dream sequence in Episode 2 as a Spirit Advisor.
• Didn't Think This Through: When he does finally succeed in summoning the Entity, he apparently forgot to prepare an offer beforehand in exchange for the favor he was able to ask it. The demon kills him on the spot for his lack of preparation. It is later implied that he accidentally summoned the wrong demon, and was likely trying to summon Lord Unknown.
• Empty Shell: It's heavily implied that the Entity stealing his soul didn't actually kill his body, but left it in a vegetated state. Andrew was horrified to realize that the sibling were the ones to technically kill him when they dismembered his body.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He makes the mistake of summoning a demon without having payment handy when asking favors of a demon. Granted, he might have summoned the wrong demon.
• Expecting Someone Taller: His initial reaction to the Entity when he finally summons the demon. Although, later revelations in Episode 2 strongly implies that he summoned the wrong demon.
• In the Hood: Wears a hooded cloak to signify him as a creepy cultist.
• The Nameless: We never learn his real name.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He is killed by the demon about 30 minutes into Episode 1, but his death kicks off the chain of events that leads to the Graves Siblings eating his body out of desperation, going further and further into degeneracy and showing their true colors as really evil people.
• Summon Bigger Fish: It is heavily implied he was trying to summon the Entity so that it would help him escape the apartment complex.
• Too Dumb to Live: He has his soul taken away by the very demon he summoned after failing to make sure he had someone to offer up to it.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Becomes the Entity's first on-screen victim where it steals his soul after a failed summon.

The Lady

Andrew and Ashley's downstairs neighbor in the quarantined apartment complex. However, unlike the other residents of the complex, she is living very comfortably due her blood type and willingness to sleep with the wardens to receive food and luxury items.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Whether the Lady really did try to kill Andrew. Andrew insists she tried to attack him with a nail gun, but the nail gun isn't found anywhere near her body and her body is lying splayed out on her bed, right where she was first taken hostage, without any blood anywhere else on the floor. When Ashley asks why exactly Andrew even let her get up in the first place, he doesn't have a good answer.
• Asshole Victim: Played with. Although she was very rude to the Graves Siblings when they offer to set her free from the quarantined apartment complex, they did barge in on her unannounced. Her only "crime" was bragging about how she was living a comfortable life due to Sex for Services. There are also no hints that she was aware of the Organ Theft operation going on. On top of that, the Graves Siblings did attack her first and held her at knife point. However, Andrew admits she is among his victims that he doesn't feel sorry for.
• Dude Magnet: Malcolm, Dave, and even Andrew were physically attracted to her.
• Gamer Chick: Spends all her time playing video games while in quarantine.
• Gilded Cage: Although she is another prisoner in the quarantined apartment complex and a victim of Sexual Extortion, she doesn't mind having sex with the wardens to get what she wants and is given all the luxuries she can ever need. When the Graves Siblings offer the Lady her freedom, she doesn't want to leave her apartment.
• Honey Trap: The Graves Siblings force her to lure Dave to his death by having the Lady tell the warden over the radio to meet her room where the summoning ritual was taking place. It is implied that she was able to seduce Andrew into letting her go, but ended up pushing her luck when she attacked him with a nail gun.
• Nail 'Em: She tries to kill Andrew with a nail gun when he takes her hostage, but he was able to kill her before she can do so.
• No Name Given: Despite being one of the few characters to be given a character portrait in the game's update of Episode 1, her actual name is never revealed.
• Sex for Services: How the Lady was able to live much more comfortably in the apartment complex compare to the other residents.
• Sex Signals Death: Not long after the siblings put together that she has been having sex with the wardens does she get killed by Andrew in a scuffle.

The Six Eyes Cult

In General

A cult who worships the demon, Lord Unknown. It is all-but-stated that the Graves Siblings' neighbor was a member of this group.

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• Affably Evil: Aside from worshiping a demon, none of their members seem to be particularly bad people. Most of them are pretty goofy and are surprisingly nice. One member even felt terrible because he stole some cake from the cart before serving it to the rest of the congregation.
• Cult: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. They are a group who practices demon summoning rituals and worships the demonic Lord Unknown.
• Harmless Villain: They don't do anything outright evil and it's an overstatement to even call them villains. All they're shown doing is worshiping a demonic entity and trying to summon them, but they're incompetent at it and most members are Just Here for the Free Snacks, and are more of a cool secret club than an actual antagonist faction, especially compared to the actual villains, the corrupt and murderous ToxiSoda and our utterly depraved and horrible Villain Protagonist siblings.
• In the Hood: They have a strict dress code that consist of long hooded robes to hide their identities.
• Just Here for the Free Snacks: It seems that most of their members only joined the cult for the free cakes and coffee served after summoning rituals.
• Number of the Beast: They seem obsessed with using the number 666 any chance they get even to their detriment.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The pass code to get into their hideout is 666. Andrew couldn't help making a Facepalm when he figures it out.

Cultist Leader

The mysterious leader of the Six Eyes Cult.

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• Ambiguously Human: He appears human but has glowing eyes without irises and leads a demon-worshipping cult.
• Beard of Evil: He is the leader of a demon worshiping cult and has a pointy beard. Downplayed in that the cult is more of an after-work club and he's the only one who takes the demon summoning aspect seriously.
• Glowing Eyes: He appears to have glowing, irisless eyes.
• The Illegible: It's implied that he may have written the demon summoning manual, as his cult has several signed copies for purchase. However, said signature is nigh-unreadable.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Despite being the leader of a demon summoning cult, he has yet to successfully summon a demon. Ashley figures out it is because the cult has been using stale animal blood they got from the butcher's instead of fresh human blood.

ToxiSoda

In general

A MegaCorp that is seemingly in cohorts with the government to be as awful as they please. They serve as the main antagonist faction of the game. One of their schemes was to lock down the Graves's apartment under the premise of a parasite outbreak to starve the hapless tenants to death and harvest their organs. Upon the Graves siblings escaping, they begin pursuing them to shut them up.

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• Evil vs. Evil: The Graves Siblings, a duo of degenerate Serial Killers, are on the run against this horrible MegaCorp who openly locks people's apartments to starve people to death and harvests their organs while having the government, media, and medical system in their pocket.
• Laughably Evil: They're so evil that they stop being utterly repulsive and become funny instead, as if it was a caricature of a corrupt corporate monopoly. From their ADs and news broadcasts, they also have a knack for sarcasm like Ashley does.
  Advertisement: "Tired of drinking the same old water every day? Have you tried ToxiSoda? It's water but worse!! Now in three new flavors! Awful! Gross! and Nasty!! Try them TODAY!! Mmmmm-m! ToxiSoda! Tastes like life!"
  Character: "I don't know why I'm drinking this."
• MegaCorp: They're a beverage company with connections in law enforcement, the media and the medical system, which they use to run Organ Theft operations and (badly) cover them up, such as the one that the Graves siblings are initially trapped in.
• Obviously Evil: The barefaced organ-harvesting lockdowns are only your first warning signs that this is no benevolent corpo.
• Organ Theft: They locked the Graves siblings in their apartment alongside its other tenants under the premise of an outbreak. In actuality, the tenants are starved to death and their corpses will be harvested for organs. According to a newspaper Andrew picked up in the motel at the start of Episode 2, there's another apartment that's sealed off from the outside world because of a supposed chemical leak, implying this is not even the first or only time where something like this happened.
• Sarcasm Mode: The news on the TV tends to make sarcastic quips, such as referring to the Graves's apartment as being "not a mismanaged mess better burned into the ground" (read: yes it is, and we burnt it as cover-up).

Mr. Washing Machine

A hit-man and cleaner who was sent after the siblings at the beginning of Episode 2.

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• Arc Villain: For the first act of Episode 2.
• Assassin Outclassin': Thanks to the Entity's gift telling Ashley that they are being targeted by a corporate hitman, Ashley was able to outmaneuver and outsmart him by luring him into a park and using Andrew as a proxy-killer to kill him instead.
• Clean Up Crew: It is implied he was the one who torched the apartment complex to hid the Organ Theft operation going on there, and then was sent after the Graves Siblings to clean-up loose ends. His codename, "Mr. Washing Machine", further suggests this is his role.
• Devious Daggers: Performs his kills by sneaking up on his target, or killing them in their sleep by silting their throats with a knife. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know that the Graves siblings had a gun in their possession.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Of Episode 2. He was initially set up as the Arc Villain of the episode once Ashley became aware of him thanks to her supernatural clairvoyance given to her by the Entity. However, the siblings have a relatively easy time tricking and killing their pursuer.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: As deadly as he is with a knife, he's still a normal human and he gets killed by Andrew shooting him with a gun.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only known by his codename of Mr. Washing Machine.
• Poor, Predictable Rock: Despite initially coming off as a scary killer, Mr. Washing Machine refuses to face his targets directly and prefer to sneak up on them or kill them in their sleep. This makes it surprisingly easy for Andrew to gun him down.
• Professional Killer: He was hired to kill the Graves Siblings, and his employers keep him on a need-to-know basis.
• Sunglasses at Night: Wears shades when preforming his assassination jobs, even in the middle of the night.
• Silent Antagonist: He doesn't have any in-game dialogue.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed by Andrew not long after the siblings realized he was pursuing them.

The Doctor

A mysterious figure who is mentioned a couple of times and is the owner of the ToxiSoda company that has connections with the local water companies.

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• Big Bad: Possibly. A few clues in the game sets up the Doctor as the story's main antagonist. As it is implied that they are behind the quarantine scam and that the game's previous Arc Villain like Malcolm, Dave, Mr. Washing Machine, and even the Graves Parents, were on this person's payroll.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: They are the owner of the soda company, ToxiSoda, and all the hidden clues point to them being the mastermind of the Organ Theft operation.
• The Ghost: They have yet to appear on-screen but are mentioned in a few of the game's hidden Easter eggs and by Mrs. Graves, depending on the player's choices.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Is hinted at being responsible for approaching the Graves to sell their children to ToxiSoda and likely have a hand in the world being as dystopic as it is. Nevertheless, they are not personally involved with the siblings.
• Hidden Villain: The Doctor, so far, is only mentioned in skippable dialogue and hidden Easter eggs in the game's first two episodes. Many players would likely not know about their existence unless they thoroughly look through the game.
• Insistent Terminology: In one TV interview, they stated that they prefer to be called "doctor" not "surgeon." Although, Mrs. Graves refers to them as a surgeon.

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