History Characters / HouseOfAshes

* WildCard: Unlike the other protagonists, who are American soldiers, Salim is an Iraqi soldier.

* OffingTheOffspring: The Gutian captive he kills in the prologue to demonstrate his loyalty (and the aiming mechanic) is his own daughter.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Joey tells Merwin and Clarice that one of the Marine superstitions is that looking back after disembarking a chopper curses the whole team. After they disembark, Merwin tricks Joey into looking back. It doesn't take long after for the entire team to fall into the temple and encounter the monsters in the game.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: His character model is the same as Joe from ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'', as well as more minor characters Billy from ''VideoGame/TheInpatient'' and Sergeant Riggs from ''VideoGame/{{Hidden Agenda|2017}}''.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Somehow he does not encounter a single vampire during his first six underground.

Randolph's assistant and a former member of the French Resistance.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her exact fate is unknown.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His exact fate is unknown.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His exact fate is unknown.

* HeroKiller: He can [[spoiler:kill any or all of the protagonists if he is fought above ground on the surface. He is also capable of killing Jason, Nick or Salim in the vampire hive, or killing Rachel in the temple, turning her into a vampire.]]
* HolyBurnsEvil: Subverted. [[spoiler:the Ancient One]] is not physically stopped by a crucifix, but it does pique his curiosity and he will look at it. [[spoiler:this is the proper option, as it gives more time for rest of the party to react. Shooting him, in contrast, just pisses him off and causes him to attack immediately.]]

* BadassBeard: He has one made out of scale mail.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:A potential fate for her if she’s killed by the Ancient one.]]

!!Main Characters

* MeaningfulName: Salim means "Safe, Secure" while Othman means "Wise". This neatly summarizes his role in the story, as a reasonable and level-headed man that is [[spoiler: one of the easiest to save in the cast]].

* TheBigGuy: Not in size, but one of the most consistently action-oriented characters of the bunch, having no shortage of fight sequence, and heavily focused on the survival aspects.

** [[spoiler: Nick can also accidentally kill Merwin this way when in a panic to stop Merwin's groans of agony from giving their positions away to the vampires. If a player completes all three QTE events, Nick will have suffocated Merwin]].

* ActionSurvivor: He's a trained soldier, but unlike the Americans he doesn't have access to their newer guns, and is outnumbered by the American protagonists, several of whom are hostile to him because his unit lead the attack on them that resulted in them getting all trapped underground with the monsters. This is represented by Salim losing his rifle early on and creating an ImprovisedWeapon out of a piece of a broken truck that falls underground, as well as generally having to survive based on his wits and choices in comparison to everybody else relying on their firepower.

* PunchClockVillain: He's just a rank-and-file enemy soldier who wants the mission done so he can spend some time with his son. When Jason questions why he'd join fighting for Saddam, Salim answers he didn't have a choice.

* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler:If Eric discovers Nick and Rachel’s affair, he’ll be furious and, if he survives, can later ignore Nick’s radio signal, causing his death.]]

* FinalGirl: Can be an [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by the player should they choose to spare Rachel and ill off the four men. [[spoiler: {{Averted}} by the game itself, however, with Rachel being among the two easiest characters to kill, the second killable playable character, and being relatively sidelined in the last act. The player really has to go out of their way to save her, let alone for Rachel to be the sole survivor.]]

* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler:If Eric discovers Nick and Rachel’s affair, he’ll betray Nick by ignoring his radio signal, letting Nick die in the process.]]

* TheGrovel: One way to play him is to have him continually begging Rachel to come back to him, regardless of how coldly she may insist that their marriage is over.

* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler:If he discovers Nick and Rachel’s affair, Eric can “punish” Rachel for cheating on him by ignoring Nick’s radio signal and letting him die.]]

* TeamKiller: [[spoiler: Can get Nick, one of his teammates, killed in revenge for dating Rachel.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: It all comes down to the player's choices, but [[spoiler: although Ashley Tisdale is the face of the game, Rachel is among one of the easier characters to kill and likely will be one of the first casualties for any player. Even if she does survive the game, her role diminishes in size and importance by the end compared to Jason or Salim.]]

* SympatheticAdulterer: It's up to the player how sympathetic she is, but she did canonically start her affair out of loneliness, not to mention guilt since [[spoiler:she caused the accident that caused Eric to lose his leg and his dream job]].

* BattleCouple: Shall she survive until the end, she can become one with [[spoiler:Eric or Nick, a marine and an Air Force officer]].

* BattleCouple: Shall she survive until the end, she can become one with [[spoiler:Eric or Nick, two trained marines]].

* EyeScream: [[Can get his eyes gouged out by a vampire towards the end of the game.]]

* EyeScream: [[Can get his eyes gouged out by a vampire towards the end of the game.]]

* EyeScream: [[Can get his eyes gouged out by a vampire towards the end of the game.]]

* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler:If he falls into the chasm and impales himself on a stalagmite.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: {{Downplayed}}. Clarice is an [=NPC=], however she is the second character to be introduced after Jason, giving the impression she might be one of the playable characters; an idea reinforced by the fact that the [[VideoGame/ManOfMedan past]] [[VideoGame/LittleHope games]] always had TwoGirlsToATeam, and she and Rachel are the only female characters. However, [[spoiler:Clarice gets taken by one of the creatures and infected, and her death cannot be avoided]].

* DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed. Clarice isn't playable, however she is the second character to be introduced after Jason, giving the impression she's might be one of the playable characters; an idea reinforced by the fact that the [[VideoGame/ManOfMedan past]] [[VideoGame/LittleHope games]] always had TwoGirlsToATeam, and she and Rachel are the only female characters. However, [[spoiler:Clarice gets taken by one of the creatures and infected, and her death cannot be avoided]].

* DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed. Clarice isn't playable, however she is the second character to be introduced after Jason, giving the impression she's gonna be one of the playable players (considering the [[VideoGame/ManOfMedan past]] [[VideoGame/LittleHope games]] always had TwoGirlsToATeam, making her and Rachel the only female characters. However, [[spoiler:Clarice gets taken by one of the creatures and infected, and her death cannot be avoided]].

[[folder:Merwin Lazarus]]

* IronicName: [[spoiler:Despite his last name, he doesn't come back as a vampire no matter how he dies]].