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Main Characters:
Dwayne Anderson
The playable character of the game and the one stuck dealing with these disturbing ghosts in his home.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Due to what he has done for his job, Dwayne has taken to constantly drinking.
- Mysterious Past: Very little is known about him at this current time. The only information on him comes from talking kitchen appliances.
- Parental Neglect: After he starts drinking he becomes this to both his kids and his wife.
- Pride: One of his tapes is named "Pride" and Rakan calls him an "arrogant fuck" during his first chase sequence.
- Water Source Tampering: Implied to have done this in one of the tapes.
Ghosts:
Lucy
The ghost of a young girl that is the focus of the first released chapter.
- Arch-Enemy: Seems to have become this to the Shadow in death. Given that it manipulated her into killing herself, she has good reason to be.
- Body Horror: When you get your first good look at Lucy you will see that her lower jaw is missing.
- Creepy Child: Became this after meeting her "friend".
- Driven to Suicide: The Shadow manipulated her into killing herself by ripping off her lower jaw, killing her near instantly.
- Expy: Obviously inspired by J-horror ghost girls from appearance.
- Trickster Mentor: While she is hostile, she leaves behind drawings guiding the player through her chapter and explaining how to ward off the Shadow.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: It begins with her killing the family's pet bird and continues on from there.
- Unwitting Pawn: Lucy, as far as the player can tell, used to be a very sweet girl. This all changed when she began to follow orders from her "imaginary friend", Shadow.
The Shadow/The Demon
An unnamed entity that stalks the house and interacted with Lucy.
- All-Encompassing Mantle: It's shrouded in a dark mantle that hides whatever may be underneath.
- Ambiguous Situation: What is it? A ghost? A demon? A hallucination brought on by Lucy's deteriorating mental state? The game never provides any answers.
- The Corrupter: It was responsible for Lucy's increasingly erratic behavior, though whether it accomplished this by suggestion or full-on Demonic Possession is never addressed.
- Dark Is Evil: The Shadow is heavily associated with darkness and is possibly the most malevolent being in the game.
- Demonic Head Shake: Its head vibrates violently whenever it appears.
- False Friend: It claimed that it wanted to be Lucy's friend. Its true intentions were far more sinister.
- Haunted Technology: First used the TV to make contact with Lucy and used radios to talk to her.
- Invisibility: The Shadow is invisible whenever it spawns, and is only visible if caught in the camera's flash or when it already has you.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Wears a cracked porcelain masked with black tar dripping from the eyes and mouth.
- Weakened by the Light: The Shadow's only weakness is the flash of the camera which wards it off.
- Wolverine Claws: It has five long razor-sharp fingers on each claw, which it will impale Dwayne with the moment it gets close.
Dolores
The ghost of a dementia suffering old woman who is the focus of the second chapter.
- Absurdly Elderly Mother: Looks to be in her seventies and has an infant child
- Driven to Suicide: Dolores ended up hanging herself after murdering her husband, leaving their baby alone in the house with an uncertain fate..
- Evil Old Folks: Dolores is the oldest (in a human sense)of the ghosts and quite malevolent in personality due to her dementia and paranoia.
- Improperly Paranoid: As Dolores' mental state continued to deteriorate she became convinced her husband George was trying to poison her, which tragically led to her murdering him in his study before killing herself.
- Motif: Mirrors play a heavy part of Dolores' chapter and character.
- Puzzle Boss: Dolores' chapter focuses heavily on solving multiple puzzles through the 11 mirror worlds while avoiding her in order to unlock the final door.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: She killed her husband George by stabbing him to death with seven knives in a bout of paranoia.
- Unwitting Pawn: Like the other ghosts, Dolores seems to be another victim of whatever malevolent entity that resides in the house.
Rakan Al-Mutawa
The ghost of a paranoid man who (like the other ghosts) lived in the house and suffered from the malevolent forces within it. Is the focus of Chapter 3.
- Handicapped Badass: After Rakan's first scripted chase against Dwayne his future chases have him on crutches, but do no make him any less dangerous. He is still a one-hit kill threat like the other ghosts, with the only difference being he's slightly slower and makes a lot of noise when moving.
- Insane Equals Violent: Rakan suffered from scopaphobia and paranoid delusions, and is also the most aggressive and violent of the ghosts in the game, having the most number of scripted chase events and likeliness to spawn. He was so violent during his stay at the hospital that he was continuously moved to harsher maximum security wings.
- Motif: Eyes. Rakan suffered from Scopaphobia, and the majority of his chapter has themes of eyes and things staring/watching people.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: When you first meet him in the flashback, it looks like the player is looking through an old VHS camera, complete with bars of static. The screen also begins to to become fuzzy and loose color when you get close to the wheelchairs that transport you to the hospital.
- The Paranoiac: He is absolutely convinced that some powerful group is out to subjugate him. His first appearance shows him going completely ballistic when he thinks he finds a piece of spying technology attached to his radio. His paranoia and aggression are so extreme he ends up having to be completely isolated in the hospital's psych ward. He even declares that he knows enough to take "them" down before he's left to die.
- The Big Guy: Is the most physically intimidating of the ghost enemies.
- Uncertain Doom: Unlike the other ghosts at the end of their chapter, Rakan's death is far more ambiguous. It seems he either died underneath the hospital trying to escape, or was simply committed to permanently stay at the hospital and withered away eventually and his delusions made him see it as a trap from his "enemies."
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: Unlike the other chapters, Rakan's spends the least amount of time at the house: The vast majority of the chapter occurs in the psychiatric hospital Rakan was committed to.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Is never seen wearing a shirt.
Lewis Taylor
A ghost covered in a black tar-like substance who silently hunts Dwayne down through the final chapter of the game.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Unlike the other ghosts, Lewis has no backstory shown and isn't even the focus of the final chapter (which is about Dwayne). Outside of learning he worked at a water treatment plant that serves as the location of the final tape, nothing is revealed about him or his connection (if any) to the house or Dwayne.
- Foreshadowing: He Appears briefly in Rakan's flashback as the entity that strangled him, which led to his stint in the mental hospital.
- Footprints of Muck: Leaves black footprints made of tar wherever he walks.
- No Name Given: He's never addressed as Lewis Taylor in the game proper. But considering he shows up directly after Dwayne picks up Lewis' locker key and the locker itself is covered in tar, and Rose mentions him being a resident of the house in "The Neighbors" comic, it's safe to assume he's Lewis.
- The Speechless: Lewis is utterly silent through his appearances compared to the other characters who get some forms of voice to show their pasts and characters (with the exception of Lucy, whose is narrated by her parents).
- Ominous Obsidian Ooze: Lewis is covered in a black ooze and travels around the house in black stains all over the walls.
- Ominous Walk: Slowly walks after Dwayne in contrast with the other ghosts.
- Uncertain Doom: It is never revealed how he died. Though considering he's covered in tar and works at a water treatment plant, it can be inferred he died there, with the tar being a carryover from when he died, in the same way Lucy's missing jaw was carried over from hers.
Other Characters:
Rose
Dwayne's elderly next door neighbor. She calls at the beginning of the game trying to check on Dwayne and explains (to the player) that Dwayne hasn't left his house in three weeks. This is the extent of her presence in the main game unless players track down the 4 collectible sets of pages of "The Neighbors" comic book.
- Hero of Another Story: "The Neighbors" comic chronicles Rose being around the time frames of Lucy, Lewis, Rakan, and Dwayne's time as residents of the house next door.
- Jerkass: Her Husband Frank is...Not a pleasant person to say the least.
- Nosy Neighbor: Rose admits she thinks she is this to Dwayne. "The Neighbors" comic shows her invoking this trope attempting to check on the numerous neighbors of the afflicted house including Lucy, Lewis, Rakan and Dwayne.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: It's revealed in "The Neighbors" comic that she killed her husband Frank before her first call to Dwayne at the beginning of the game.
George
Dolores' depressed husband who plays a part of her backstory in Chapter 2.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: When Dwayne finds him he is merely a corpse and tied to the Mirror's fetch quest puzzles. However, once you go into the other room and collect the toy mobile piece, he will stand up as a hostile ghost and attack you. However, after closing the door and de-spawning him he never appears again.
- Apocalyptic Log: During Chapter 2 Dwayne can find 3 audio cassette tapes that are personal audio journals of George's as he chronicles his struggles with caring for his wife as her mind deteriorates and she becomes more dangerous to himself and their child.
- There's No Kill like Overkill:
- His death: Delores stabbed him to death in his study, leaving him with seven different kitchen knives plunged into his chest. Finding the missing 7th knife and sticking it in is part of his mirror world's puzzle.
- His kill animation as a ghost involves him pulling the knives from his own body and stabbing Dwayne with them. The third knife being the killing blow.
Lucy's Parents
Lucy's mom and dad who find themselves helpless in aiding their daughter.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Their daughter suddenly develops some kind of mental illness that requires injections to treat. The treatment doesn't help and her condition only worsens until she kills herself in the bathroom while they are locked out and can do nothing but helplessly pound on the door, unable to stop her.
- Where Did We Go Wrong?: They take on this behavior when Lucy reaches the point that she kills their pet bird.
Masked Man
A man wearing a plague doctor mask who seems to know Dwayne. Only appears in Dwayne's tapes.
- Ambiguous Situation: What he is and his connection to Dwayne. Is he a ghost? Dwayne's Enemy Within? A hallucination? Or something else entirely?
- Dead Person Impersonation: He seems to take the form of Dwayne's family (wearing the exact same plague doctor mask he does) to torment him in one of the tapes. Particularly Dwayne's wife.
