A list of characters who appear in Lemon Demon music. Since most of them don't have genders due to being the points of view of their songs or are only referred to as "you," "he" or "they" will be used for all of them unless there are lines that specifically indicate otherwise.
This page is a work in progress, so several folders will be empty, missing, or incomplete for the time being.
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Dinosaurchestra (2006)
Nameless Man ("Stuck")
- And I Must Scream: Is "stuck in a song", and it's implied that he dies when the song ends.
- Medium Awareness: Is acutely aware of the fact that he is a character in a song. And he's not happy about it.
- No Name Given: Mentions that he doesn't have a name, which only makes him more miserable. In the commentary, Neil says his first name would be 'Carlos' and his middle name would be 'Betty' (no last name though).
- Rage Against the Author: Says that Neil must not have much inspiration, considering how stereotypical his "life" is.
Your Imaginary Friend ("Your Imaginary Friend")
- Ambiguous Gender: Since the song is from their perspective, their gender(s) is never mentioned. Though, in the commentary, Neil refers to the narrator as a "he," but this could just have been a joke.
- I Am Legion: It's honestly not made clear whether the song is from the perspective of one person or several. The only indication is the usage of the word 'we' when referring to themselves.
- Stalker with a Crush: Certainly comes across this way, having apparently been watching the listener since they were young, and proclaiming how much they love "you."
Indie Cindy ("Indie Cindy & The Lo-Fi Lullabies")
- Dreadful Musician: Seems to have this opinion of herself.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Refuses to let anyone else listen to her music because she seems to believe no one else would like it.
- One-Man Band: She is the only member of her band, and also the only one who listens to the music she makes.
- Starving Artist: While little of her personal life is revealed in the song, she's certainly a struggling musician, working out of her basement studio.
View-Monster (2008)
Bill Watterson's Stalker ("Bill Waterson")
- Ambiguous Gender: By virtue of being sung in the first person.
- Ambiguously Gay: The gender of the stalker is completely unknown. The singer, Neil Cicierega, is a man, but this doesn't necessarily mean that the character isn't.
- Ax-Crazy: Later in the song, they express a desire to "try [Bill Watterson's] face on" and "eat [his] heart and absorb [his] powers."
- Cannibalism Superpower: At least, they believe eating Bill Watterson's heart will let them gain his powers, artistic or otherwise.
- Comically Missing the Point: They're fully aware of Bill Watterson's reclusive tendencies, and correctly deduces that it's for a sense of privacy. However, they assume that he wants privacy simply so that Watterson eventually meeting them will be all the more meaningful.
- Cut Phone Lines: Brings shears to Bill Watterson's house for this purpose.
- Genuine Human Hide: The final line of the song is them expressing the desire to wear Watterson's face.
- Ignored Epiphany: Partway through the song, they almost seem to realize why Bill Watterson has been spending so much time inside, before suddenly stating that it must be so that their meeting will be private!
- It's All About Me: As seen above, the singer has deluded themselves into believing Bill Watterson is just as in love with them as they are with him, and they think Watterson keeps a private life just so they can meet them.
- Loony Fan: Stands outside Bill Watterson's house and actively wants to kill him to gain his powers.
- Stalker with a Crush: Is very infatuated with and devoted to Mr. Watterson.
The Modifiers ("Modify")
- Agony of the Feet: Johnny sticks 20 gauge nails through his feet. Not to be outdone, Donnie sticks 40 gauge nails through his feet.
- Ear Ache: O'Malley cuts his ears off (though regrets not keeping them).
- Nasal Trauma: Sally gets a dagger hung from her septum. It's never mentioned whether she decides to use this as a Nasal Weapon, however.
- Scary Stitches: Mason gets these "installed" next to her eyes.
- Self-Harm: Practically every modification results in this.
- Skeletal Appendage: Roonie gets his skull exposednote for the purpose of having scrimshaw
put on it. - Too Dumb to Live: Stan tries to give himself neck scars using a rope. He accidentally hangs himself in the process.
I Am Become Christmas (2012)
The Guy Who Wants To Celebrate Christmas (Aurora Borealis)
- Dissonant Serenity: Despite the fact that it's literally The End of the World as We Know It, he doesn't seem too worried.
- Scary Flashlight Face: Tries to reassure his lover by pulling one of these, not realizing how that comes off.
- Skewed Priorities: Even though it's the start of the apocalypse, he'd rather celebrate Christmas with his lover than run away.
- Trust Me, I'm an X: Not said directly, but he tells his lover that everything will be fine, because he "does this all the time."
The CryptoSanta ("CryptoSanta")
- Mad Scientist: Is part of a shadowy organization whose experiments lead to the discovery of a new dimension.
- Painful, Eldritch Transformation: Due to accidentally walking in the path of an experimental laser weapon, the narrator undergoes a grisly transformation which (possibly) turns him into Santa Claus.
- Santabomination: Becomes one unwittingly as a result of his company's experiments.
- Skewed Priorities: Seems more concerned with his company losing money than turning into a Santa creature.We must not tell the shareholders
That would be bad
Nature Tapes (2014)
The Guy Who Likes Trains ("My Trains")
- Disproportionate Retribution: After being insulted by someone at the model railroad club, he desires to shrink (as listed below) so he can crawl into their ear and hold one of their arteries shut until they die.
- Genki Boy: He's always extremely excited about evrything, specially when it comes to model trains.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Believes that if he concentrates and thinks of getting smaller, he'll gradually get smaller, and be able to get his revenge on the guy who insulted his trains.
- Rail Enthusiast: Big fan of trains, specifically model trains.
Spirit Phone (2016)
Undead Rock Star ("Lifetime Achievement Award")
- Ambiguous Gender: Referred to entirely in the second person, leaving their gender unknown. They are referred to as "bro" at one point in the song, however that's not strictly a masculine word given the casual context.
- Came Back Wrong: Implied by the "oh no!"s that happen late in the song, as well as the monstrous panting and screeching that accompany the "oh no!"s later in the song (more audible when listening to just the vocal track).
- Mandatory Unretirement: They're brought back to life for the sole purpose of performing music.
- The Rock Star: Though we don't get much on their personality, they are known to be very well known in-universe and prompt comparisons to Michael Jackson.
Conspiracy Theorist ("Touch-Tone Telephone")
- Conspiracy Theorist: Obviously. Specifically, he seems to believe in Ancient Astronauts and Nazis escaping into space, although the actual conspiracy is less important to the song than his desire to be heard.
- Loony Fan: Believes the radio host he repeatedly calls to be a genius and the only person capable of understanding him. Based on the lyrics, it's pretty likely they want nothing to do with him.
- The Only One I Trust: Believes the radio host is the only person in the world who'd understand his theories.
- The Paranoiac: He apparently believes himself to be in danger, repeatedly saying he'll be heard if he can make it through the night.
- Super-Sargasso Sea: He claims they'll find him there pretty soon.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Is desperate to get his theories heard.
Cabinet Man ("Cabinet Man")
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Considers being a popular arcade game the closest thing he's ever felt to love, and also eats a few maintenance men and drives a few kids to madness.
- Body Horror: Imagine vandalizing an old arcade machine, only to find that it's full of blood and human organs. Yeah.
- Cyborg: He's turned himself into a fusion of human parts and an arcade cabinet.
- Gone Mad from the Revelation: Drove a few kids to madness.note
- Haunted Technology: Of a sort, though his organs are still technically alive in the arcade machine.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Is more than happy to eat any repairman who tries to work on him, though he claims that he "only" does so occasionally.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Implied to be one of the reasons why he merged his body with an arcade machine. Children's appreciation for his game is the closest thing to love he's ever felt.
- Immortality Seeker: Wired his organs into a machine "for safekeeping," making this a likely reason.
- Man in the Machine: Specifically, the arcade machine.
- Noodle Incident: According to the lyrics, he won't hurt you unless you cheat at his game. It is unknown what happen to the kids that cheat his game, but the outcome doesn't seems to be a good one.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Unaware of his self-cyborgification, the news reporters reported that he died.
- Uncertain Doom: Unless someone comes to repair him (or he somehow finds a way to repair himself), he's doomed to lay on the arcade floor as a bleeding pile of scrap metal and flesh. It's unknown if he'll eventually die of blood loss or organ/hardware damage, or remain in this broken state forever.
- Unwinnable by Design: He claims to be unbeatable, presumably using the challenge to get more kids to play his game.
- Was Once a Man: Used to own the workshop that his current form was found in, and was considered dead when his original body was found.
- Wetware CPU: Willingly turned himself into a human organ-powered arcade machine.
The No-Eyed Girl ("No Eyed Girl")
- Ambiguous Situation: Does she really return the love of the human, or is she just using them so her kind can take over the Earth?
- Black Speech: The singer can't speak her language because "[her] language isn't real".
- Brown Note Being: The singer says that the No-Eyed Girl's matter "tells [his] to scatter", and later mentions "human implosions". It's implied that the No-Eyed Girl's very presence is enough to kill nearby humans.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: A human researcher becomes infatuated with her.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Her human lover seems to think "I might go insane / if I learn your full name."
- Humanoid Abomination: She apparently resembles a beautiful human woman, but her body is made of antimatter and, as the name suggests, she has no eyes.
The Dead Millionaire ("When He Died")
- Awful Wedded Life: Implied, as when the authorities contact his wife to inform her of his death, she apparently "reacted with delight".
- Barrier Maiden: To quote the song:When he died
They found a message etched into his spine that said
When he died
An endless age of untold nightmares would be nigh
And the blood would make the seas run red - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: According to the song, these were the weather conditions when he died.
- Locked Room Mystery: The entire point of the song is to illustrate how his death is one of these. Found dead, evidently headless, with a mansion full of skulls and strange symbols scorched into the floor beneath his corpse (among many, many other things).
- Spooky Painting: When a shed near his house burned down on the day of his death, investigators found in the ruins "a creepy painting of a clown" that he'd painted when he was a child, with the time and date of his death etched onto the back.
Creator of the Mellified Man ("Sweet Bod")
- Accidental Pervert: Well aware that digging up corpses covered in honey makes him seem a little weird, and tries to make it very clear that it isn't sexual.
- Ambiguously Human: The song implies that the person who embalmed the corpse in honey is the same person who dug it up to sell its candied remains…around one hundred years later. Humans have lived for over a hundred years, but it’s unpredictable and few have lived much longer than that. In order for selling a mellified corpse to be a practical profit-making scheme, its creator would have to be immortal or unnaturally long-lived.
- Grave Robbing: Digs up a coffin for solely monetary, non-sexual reasons.
- Snake Oil Salesman: Depends on whether or not the mellified man actually does work as a panacea in-universe, though he does definitely talk it up like it's one. Either way, he is selling it to the desperate and sick, who trust him based only on rumors.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: The amount of times he feels it necessary to specify that his grave robbing practices are not sexual is the opposite of reassuring.
Gef the Mongoose ("Eighth Wonder")
- Brown Note Being: He claims that if you ever saw him, you'd turn into a pillar of salt.
- I Am a Monster: He constantly refers to himself as a freak and a monster, and doesn't want anyone to see him. Whether he's conscience of his appearance, really is a Brown Note Being, or simply doesn't want the mystery around him to be dispelled is up for interpretation.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Throughout the song, he claims to either be an earthbound spirit, an extra-clever mongoose that was born in India, a being from another dimension, or God. It's possible that none of those are even the truth.
- Poltergeist: He threatens to haunt like the buggane, a ghost-like creature from Irish folklore.
- Unreliable Narrator: Given the constant contradictory information he gives about himself, it's hard to know if anything Gef says is true.
The Ancient Alien ("Ancient Aliens")
- Ancient Astronauts: Deconstructed. They seem to be based on this concept, arriving on Earth in prehistoric times and (probably unintentionally) showing an early human how to make fire. But to the early human who barely understands the principles of his own world, a being from space who defies those principles is a terrifying Eldritch Abomination. The human is too terrified to interact with the alien, and their creation of fire is seemingly interpreted as a reality-breaking ability rather than something to learn from.
- Brown Note Being: The mere sight of them burns the human's eyes.
- Eldritch Abomination: An interesting case. The primitive human is terrified of them and unable to comprehend them, but it's implied that this is because the human has only a rudimentary understanding of the world. Like an inversion of Humans Are Cthulhu, the alien's eldritch status is a matter of perspective.
- Flight: They have this ability. The caveman is confused by this ability, implying that it's not the wing-based form of flight present in animals.
- Sole Survivor: They're the only one of their kind who survived the implied disaster upon arrival on Earth.
- Telepathic Spacemen: The alien "speaks" directly into the human’s mind, which absolutely terrifies him.
The Caveman ("Ancient Aliens")
- Book Dumb: He isn’t portrayed as Dumb Muscle like most cavepeople. Even if his poetic way of speaking is Artistic License, he still has some understanding of the world and is even implied to be an artist. He’s not stupid, but coming across an alien is so beyond his frame of reference that it's totally incomprehensible.
- Ignorant About Fire: Averted. He doesn’t know how to light a fire, but he knows what fire is, implying that he’s seen it naturally caused by a lightning strike.
Your Father ("As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It"/"I Earn My Life")
- Abusive Dad: Well, he shows himself to at least be verbally abusive, basically yelling for the entirety of "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It", accusing the listener of stealing his medicine and making a half-hearted apology after finding it.
- Ambiguous Situation: Is he standing on a chair because he's been Driven to Suicide, or is it because he thinks standing is more productive than sitting?
- Anger Born of Worry: The reason he's so hard on his kid is because he's worried about their future, and whether he'll be able to make the most of his life and provide for them until he dies.
- Ominous Hair Loss: Is said to be losing his hair in both songs. In "I Earn My Life," it's all but stated that this is due to stress.
- Technologically Blind Elders: Tells the listener not to bring their "Game Boy or whatever to the table," so he's certainly behind on the times.
