Characters / We Could Be Round Five

Characters from the fifth round of We Could Be.

Blue Team ("Team Orange") Contestants

Akane Kurashiki (Fifteen Strangers)

The Super Duper Mighty Number Nine

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Agent Mulder: Akane believes every occult conspiracy theory under the sun and will opine about them at the slightest prompt.
• Freak Out: She does this at body discoveries and the "worst fear" challenge, due to a lot of murdergame trauma going back to her canon and her childhood.
• Mindlink Mates: Even separated by years and having each found a Second Love in their own murdergames, when she reunites with Junpei, they both inwardly recognize that they'll always still feel the same way for each other despite how ill fated they were.
• The Nicknamer: Often gives out Affectionate Nicknames to her close CR.
• Secretly Dying: Her health problem is actually a time paradox she still needs to turn into a Stable Time Loop; if she fails, she's already dead and time reacts accordingly.
• Shipper on Deck: For Brain and Heart.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Seems sweet and innocent, but she has a frightening calculating and even sadistic side, and she's determined to keep from spending her entire life going through murdergames.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Had one as a child when she was kidnapped and nearly killed, saved only by a Stable Time Loop that she still had to close by running her own Deadly Game. Aside from clear and present PTSD, this also caused her physical health problems like frequent fevers.

Anna Fugo (Unknown Seas)

The Super Duper VR Trooper

A victim of case 3 (week 4).

• Evil Former Friend: Still this to Shingetsu from her canon, but knowing now that she was manipulated by both magical and mundane means to become this and then essentially be sacrificed, Anna constantly contends with how much of her feelings on the matter are real.
• Green-Eyed Monster: While she's been slowly recovering from the years of More than Mind Control that made her what she is now, she's still got deep-seated envy for Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: That flamenco dress she went around canon in isn't all that useful for running around an island, even if she stubbornly tries to complete an athletic challenge in it anyway. After the obstacle course predictably goes poorly, she starts using her scholar outfit, which allows for more mobility, when she's planning on doing anything strenuous. This is an evidence bullet in case 3, hinting that Anna planned the murder and got got by her own trap.
• Laughing Mad: Goes more than a little unhinged cackling and attacking the Chris statue when the gang are vandalizing it, and she even suggests blowing it up despite the danger that would pose to everyone else.
• Morton's Fork: The third motive, for her. If no one tries to kill, then the motive will activate and make her into a murderer anyways, at least that's what she believes. So she chooses to try and go out on her own terms instead.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her main outfit. Her alternate outfit from the world she went off to after her first game is black and gold instead.
• Screaming Warrior: If Anna's in a fight, the entire island will know about it. Well, until she actually tries to ambush somebody with a trap instead.
• Stealth Pun: Her title would seem to stick out as not calling her out specifically, especially as plenty of other characters in-game were also in VR murdergames and some were even created for VR. However, it references a show in which a virtual constructed world is also a real alternate dimension... much like Magiaconatus.
• What Have I Become?: Her driving question after her first game and time in the interim adventuring in another world. She regularly questions both how she's changed since the lighthouse (feeling guilty about the classism she defaults to and her old habit of throwing people away who were no longer useful to her) and what "Anna" is now that she knows why she went bad to begin with and she's away from the things that made her a hatred-driven mess. Anna reaffirms that she doesn't want to go back, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Aziraphale (We Could Be Round One)

The Super Duper Acute Angle

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Badass Bookworm: A bookseller widely versed in trivia and academia, but also surprisingly apt at fighting and able to corner multiple culprits.
• The Empath: Aziraphale can sense love, which becomes very awkward multiple times with the love triangles, jealousy, and hastily covered-up mornings after going on around him.
• The Unmasking: Had an awkward conversation with Lust where he had to explain who he was due to having spent their previous round in disguise as someone else.

Azul Ashengrotto (Ars Arcana)

The Super Duper Loan Shark

The victim of case 5 (week 6).

• Alien Blood: Blue, since his true species is an octopus merman.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: Though it's actually caused by what the mod narration calls a "potion of humansona," and his true form is more monstrous.
• Power Parasite: He's normally able to take others' abilities; the sheer extent of how many people he's cheated out of their magic was his secret in his previous game's secrets motive. Being nerfed to the extent that he can barely use his own powers distresses him.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Frequent reference is made to the time he cross-examined a dog, and he tries it again with other animals and magical creatures this time around.
• Unscaled Merfolk: He's an octopus merman.

Brain (Fifteen Strangers)

The Super Duper Same Thing We Do Every Night

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Adoptive Name Change: Brain scorns this practice at first due to his jealousy, but Heart is sure he'll eventually come around. He does, taking on the name Brain Ein von Kleve.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Brain's defining characteristic is jealousy that drives a lot of his petty and stubborn behaviour and sometimes threatens to overtake him entirely.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His Crazy Jealous Guy antics butting up against the absolute obliviousness of his object of affection is often played for comedy. He works himself up into a froth hating Ardyn, whom he's never met, for getting close to Heart, and immediately the OOC chat confirmed that not only Ardyn but every other member of Heart's close CR would adopt Brain on sight and treat him like a harmless hissy cat when he tried to do anything.
• Love-Interest Traitor: Tampers with Heart's memories to keep him from realizing he's the last culprit, knowing that Heart would confess immediately and wanting to spare him even if it means scapegoating himself and leading everyone else to die. He tearfully admits that he knows it's wrong, but "my love is flawed."
• Mouthful of Pi: He recites pi as a grounding exercise when he's having a trauma-induced panic attack.

Deathsaurus (We Could Be Round Four)

The Super Duper Robot in Disguise, More Than Meets the Eye, Autobots Wage Their Battle to Destroy the Evil of the Decepticons

Made it to the survivor pool.

• A Father to His Men: Has a close relationship with those he commands and impresses Brain enough to want to join with them.
• Extra Eyes: He's got four.
• Humongous Mecha: Though he's shrunken for the game to just very tall mecha.

Franciscus Erkens (Cartesio, Fifteen Strangers)

The Super Duper New Game++

A victim and culprit of case 3 (week 4).

• Expository Hairstyle Change: He's grown his hair out into a ponytail, instead of keeping it constantly cut short.
• Happily Married: Being from three years after Fifteen Strangers, he and Osomatsu have gotten married in the meantime.
• Properly Paranoid: He's mentioned how despite the past three years being peaceful for him, he's still been constantly on guard for him or anyone he knows being dragged into another murdergame. This turns out to be a completely reasonable fear, since he's here now.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Instead of his suit, his default outfit is now a more casual one, complete with florist's apron, showing how he's adapted to a more normal life.

Lust (We Could Be Round One)

The Super Duper #NailedIt

The one actual victim of case 4 (week 5).

• Deadpan Snarker: Lust is regularly sarcastic and rolls her eyes at failed attempts to do good this time around.

Penny Polendina (Airlocked)

The Super Duper Cutting Edge

Punished and left as a red herring "victim" in case 4 (week 5).

• Berserk Button: Being used as someone else's weapon. She turns this rage on Nina for the events of her previous game and later on GLaDOS for this one.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: "Hella" is now a cornerstone of her vocabulary after aping Chloe in her previous game.

Pyrrha Nikos (Airlocked)

The Super Duper Foodi

Punished and left as a red herring "victim" in case 4 (week 5).

• Alternate Self: A version of Pyrrha appeared in round 3, but this one is from Airlocked instead.

Shin (Antumbra)

The Super Duper Cain Instinct

The (initial) culprit of case 2 (week 3).

• Arch-Enemy: To Lucrezia, whom he outs as his mastermind in the first meeting.

Somnus Lucis Caelum (Ars Arcana)

The Super Duper Spoop

The victim of case 1 (week 2).

• I Hate Past Me: Hearing Anna go into a spiteful, jealous Ernesta rant made him wonder in horror, shame, and sheer cringe if he sounded like that about Ardyn.
• Princeling Rivalry: The setup for his greatest regret, betraying and erasing his brother from recorded history at the whims of the gods and his own jealousy. Even all these years later, Somnus feels bitter at how much more personable Ardyn was.

Subete Kenzaki (The Foundation)

The Super Duper Cross Words

Executed for a mid-trial kill in case 3 (week 2).

• Take This Job and Shove It: Hates his previous employer with a passion due to the doomed round he was in, and has decided to burn every bridge in relation to it (aside from, of course, his boyfriend who hates the Foundation just as much).

Orange Team ("Team Blue") Contestants

"Agatha Heterodyne" (Antumbra)

The Super Duper Buggy

The culprit of case 1 (week 2).

• Familial Body Snatcher: Revealed right in the intro log this time, courtesy of Shin — this is Lucrezia possessing the real Agatha. When she dies, she's installed into a separate container.
• It's All About Me: Lucrezia is a massive egomaniac who can't stop boasting about her genius and accomplishments. She tries to keep it down to endear herself to others, but it's on full blast when she's alone or with Shin (who knows her secret already) and she'll sometimes let her guard down among fellow villains.
• Mad Scientist: She goes all in on this trope via managing to build a giant bug zapper and jet pack. She used both in her combined escape attempt and plan to kill Chris once voted as case one's culprit.

Anna of Cleves (It's Curtains)

The Super Duper Alimony

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Character Catchphrase: "That's the thing I'm sensitive about!"
• Lady in Red: She's a queen (and won't let you forget it) and red is her theme colour.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Anna's memories within the game take place in the intermission between Rounds 2 and 3. After the mastermind is defeated, her memories up to the present are restored; most importantly to her, she remembers finally remarrying.
• Life of the Party: Regularly throws parties, blasts rave music, and always tries to liven things up.
• Starter Marriage: Her first marriage didn't last, and she regularly complains about her ex. Her current marriage has already outlasted it, even if she doesn't remember.

"Barry Berkman" (We Could Be Round Two)

The Super Duper Understudy

The culprit of case 4 (week 5).

• Because You Were Nice to Me: He immediately grows attached to anyone who offers him kindness or encouragement, especially Professor Moriarty and Nina.
• Clone Angst: Thanks to the ending twist of his original round, he's a copy of the original. He also immediately assumes that everyone else is also a digital clone, and contemplates the ethics of bursting their bubble about their individuality and identities without realizing that that might not be the case here.
• Commonality Connection: He bonds with Akane over them both having been through multiple time loops in their killing games and with Franciscus over both of them being virtual clones.
• Duplicate Divergence: Barry doesn't consider himself the same person as the original Barry Berkman. In fact, he generally resents the guy and fears sharing his violent nature.
• Lethal Chef: Everything he tries to make falls apart or just looks pathetic.
• Robotic Reveal: Only realizes that he's in a cybernetic body while being stabbed to death in his execution.
• Undying Loyalty: He regularly defends Nina despite her previous crimes, and he tells his surrogate sister Akane that he would do anything for her. This loyalty becomes the driving force for him making a Deal with the Devil to spare seven people he cares about from mass execution should he get away with murder.

Dark Dream (Castle Whimsical)

The Super Duper Crystal Gem

Made it to the survivor pool.

• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest in both chronological and psychological age.
• In-Series Nickname: Some of the others call her Dee or Deedee, as opposed to DD, her out-of-series nickname from the players.
• Nerf: Applies to all the characters with powers, but Dark Dream in particular has had one of her powers literally nerfed, leaving her with the ability to create soft foam discs.
• Only Sane Man: Not her, personally, but she starts thinking of her previous game as having had a generally more sane cast than the others, since they didn't do strange things like habitually resorting to strip checks or eating potentially poisoned evidence.
• Rules Lawyer: She's taken to bothering Chris about technicalities, initially as part of a plan to make him technically the culprit but eventually just to annoy him.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Not in-universe, but her journal username is "imozon," reflecting that she's a copy of someone named Nozomi.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Her fairly major role in Castle Whimsical round 1's endgame seems to have gone straight to her head.
• That Was Objectionable: Since her previous game she's picked up the Ace Attorney practice of shouting "objection" essentially for emphasis in court.
• Trauma Button: Cases 3 and 6 both catch her off guard with some aspect of the victim's death strongly resembling her own death in canon.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: She's settled on axes as her weapon of choice, befitting her strength and lack of subtlety. Specifically, she carries Anna Fugo's axe, playing on how she sees the two of them as similar.

Heart (Airlocked)

The Super Duper Zoomer

The culprit of case 6 (week 7), but made it to the survivor pool.

• Abusive Parents: Still haunted by what his creators put him through — abandonment from one, torture from the other — despite pretending he's fine.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a red trenchcoat in his default outfit and regularly mops the floor with his opponents.
• Explosive Overclocking: An ability of his called "the Dead Zone" allows him to increase his power at the cost of not being in full control of himself and burning out his body. This activates during the motive where powers go haywire and he kills Orthrus, then has his memory of it blocked in Brain's attempt to save him.
• Oblivious to Love: Has no idea why Brain is so desperate for his approval and acts like a Crazy Jealous Guy about his other friends, and also doesn't register any attraction from said other friends either in canon or in his previous game.
• Therapy Is for the Weak: Because his production line is built to change and evolve, Heart has shirked therapy for years, thinking he can deal with his trauma on his own. As Brain and Yl'lb discover, this has led to massive internal problems in his memory and processing ability.

Hikage (The Foundation)

The Super Duper Psychedelic Butterfly

The victim of case 2 (week 3).

• The Cynic: Especially about the murdergame setup and the SCP Foundation, whom he blames for the disastrous round he'd been through before.

James Moriarty (The Foundation)

The Super Duper Narrative Foiled

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Alternate Self: Akane knew another version of him from her game, but he doesn't recognize her at all.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Akane quickly starts calling him "Daddy" as well, just like she did with the one from Fifteen Strangers.
• Parental Substitute: He quickly comes to accept a paternal role in regards to Akane and later Barry.

Nina (Airlocked)

The Super Duper Cool Motive Still Murder

Made it to the survivor pool.

• Absurd Phobia: Nina becomes convinced that beavers are vicious venomous beasts that pose great danger to the captives. Most of the others either silently judge her conclusion or think it's hilarious.
• The Alcoholic: Being in charge of Airlocked! regularly drove her to drink, and as seen here, even after being stuck in prison for years, she hasn't kicked the habit.
• The Atoner: After a thorough dressing down at the Airlocked series finale and 5 years in prison with mandatory therapy, Nina does make strides toward this. To the point of making a Deal with the Devil when Yl'lb becomes an accidental culprit to scapegoat herself for him. Her plan does not succeed but it does lead to her reconciliation with Heart and a huge dynamic shift in her relationship with Brain.
• Chronic Villainy: Her reasoning when she's found with scent evidence on her hands in case 5. Subverted because she was intentionally framing herself for responsibility in Azul's death.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Sure, she ran five murdergames, turned them into a pop cultural phenomenon, and even when she felt regrets, kept to the maxim that the show must go on and tried to manufacture a scenario where she had to get away with her crimes no matter what. But when she hears that Dark Dream's game had an upper age limit, not a lower age limit, Nina is horrified.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: By the end of the game, Nina has strong friendships with most of the survivor pool, especially Heart, who forgave her after the events of Yl'lb's trial, and Brain, who had been mutually antagonistic with her from the first meeting.
• Hate Sink: She was once declared one of the most hated Journal Roleplay NPCs of all time,^* Technically, as her alter ego Rox Petuu, whom she designed to be a villain. and the four other Airlocked characters waste little time explaining why.
• Insecure Love Interest: To Barry. In the first half of the game, she goes from trying to tell herself she doesn't deserve to fall in love (after the last person she fell for was one of her own victims) to that same crushing guilt leading her to try and tell Barry not to reciprocate.
  Nina is not the kind of person you should love, not if you know what's good for you.
• Interspecies Romance: Nina and Barry are a buglike alien and an AI in a printed body.
• The Makeover: Halfway through the game, she comes up with a new human form not tied to any of her previous aliases.
• Not Me This Time: Claims to have nothing to do with this game, despite some of it fitting the previous seasons of Airlocked. None of her castmates believe her at first.
• Shapeshifting: Her default ability as a Kelocindenian.

Orthrus (Ars Arcana)

The Super Duper Good Boy

The victim of case 6 (week 7).

• Brought Down to Normal: In addition to the nerfing that occurs for all the contestants, when Orthrus is resurrected, it's as a human instead of a Beast.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Orthrus admits that he can't trust anyone anymore because the last time he did, he was betrayed and cursed by someone he loved.
• Older and Wiser: He's taken from a time skip later than his game, where he's cut off contact with his roundmates, become morose and depressed, and, it's implied and later stated, lost everything he cared for at home.

Ray Stantz (We Could Be Round One)

The Super Duper Ghost "Hugger," Wink

A culprit of case 3 (week 4).

• Failure Knight: Lust quickly identifies with her usual level of scorn that Ray's attempt to protect all the kids is this after the disaster that was their last game.
• Friend to All Children: Ray is still horribly distressed over everyone under 18 dying in his game, at least one per case, and he sets out to try to protect the kids here. It goes poorly when he arms Slimer, who panics at seeing Franciscus trip Anna into her own death trap and avenges her, marking Ray as the culprit.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Is very excited about meeting a bunch of people from different murdergames and tries to interrogate all of them about theirs.

Space☆Dandy (Unknown Seas)

The Super Duper Groovie Boo-Bie

Made it to the survivor pool.

• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He acts much more serious from the start than he did in Unknown Seas, and also shows no attraction to Lust at all.

Yl’lb Ein (Airlocked)

The Super Duper BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!

The culprit of case 5 (week 6).

• New Meat: The only contestant who has never either been a captive or mastermind of a murdergame; his role in his original game was as an ally NPC helping the player characters.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Names a creature he gets from the regains "Yl'lb the Younger" as a joke. He later finds that too long and just goes with "Bill" after his title.

Yoosung Kim (Lockdown)

The Super Duper Hax

Made it to the survivor pool.

• That Man Is Dead: Considers himself to be an AI copy of the original deceased Yoosung instead of his original self.

Other Characters

Chris McLean

The game's host.

• Everyone Has Standards: Even he doesn't want to tangle with the Disney lawyers.
• Hated by All: Not a single member of the cast likes him. He regularly gets rocks thrown at him whenever he shows up, and every culprit has tried to kill him before being executed.
• It's All About Me: Chris is a massive egomaniac who has somehow convinced himself that he did nothing wrong and everyone must adore him, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Wheatley

A "cutting-edge chef" who was "awarded" to the contestants when nobody murdered the first week.

• Artificial Stupidity: An intentional in-universe example, as per canon. Even his journal username is "artificialunintelligence."
• Lethal Chef: His cooking largely has been charred to a crisp and inedible.
• Remember the New Guy?: He tries, unsuccessfully, to invoke this when he's first introduced, thinking that his newcomer status will confuse the viewers and make him unpopular.
• Paper-Thin Disguise/Sue Donym: During week 5, he tries to hide from Chris by covering himself in leaves, wearing a wig, and calling himself Wil Wheaton.

The Director (GLaDOS)

The mysterious individual running the show.

• Adaptational Badass: Her boss fight here is scaled up for fighting a wide group of heavily armed combatants, and she now has massive claws, the ability to control every panel in the room, and her own portal guns.
• Bad Boss: Terrifies everyone who works for her, at least up until the turrets are talked into unionizing.
• Hypocrite: Judges many of the contestants for their flaws even, or especially, when they're the same as her own.

Space Core

A spherical computer similar to Wheatley, with a fixation on space.

• Cloud Cuckoolander: Introduced to the survivors spouting random out-of-context space facts.
• Genius Ditz: An unused possible ending the mods had prepared would have seen the contestants put him in charge of the facility, which he would turn out to be hyper-competent at running. While believing it to be a spaceship.