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Blue Goose Crew
Thom
Voiced by: Henry Douthwaite (English), Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese)
The ship's captain, who encounters an old flame after his crew gets stranded in a remote repair station.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: He spends weeks dating and having sex with "Greta", who's actually the avatar of a grotesque spider-like alien capable of generating false realities within the minds of other creatures. It's unclear what the alien's feelings actually are in this situation, though.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: At the climax, Greta insists that Thom can't actually handle his true situation. And she is right. Thom is absolutely horrified, so Greta knocks him right back out and keeps him in the pleasant reality scape, as Greta.
- Really Gets Around: It really doesn't seem as though Greta was his only "fling", but it sure seems to be his best one. This is no coincidence.
- Thinker Pose: Thom sits in a similar manner as the trope namer, in his bed, with a cigarette in his hand, after having sex with Greta.Greta: I always think men are sexier when they try and think.
Suzy
Voiced by: Rebecca Banatvala (English), Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Maryana Spivak (Russian)
The ship's navigator.
- Only Sane Man: She's very well aware that Greta is not what she seems. Thom is blissfully oblivious, and Ray never actually wakes in Thom's dream. She either represents Thom's subconscious trying to warn him, or is another avatar used by Greta to urge him to face reality.
- The Smart Guy: She handles the navigation for the ship, which requires complex calculations, lest the ship is thrown off course.
Ray
Voiced by: Delroy Brown (English), Soichi Abe (Japanese)
The third crewman. Greta insists on keeping him on suspension.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: He's introduced complaining loudly of a hangover. After the ship is stranded, he's left in his chamber and plays no further role in the story.
Repair Station
Greta
Voiced by: Madeleine Knight (English), Mayumi Sako (Japanese)
An old flame of Thom. She's apparently in charge of the repair station Thom and his crew are stuck in.
- Ambiguously Evil: The whole situation seems a bit too suspicious to be coincidence. Greta, meanwhile, seems a bit too reluctant to tell Thom the whole truth. The ambiguity only gets stronger after the reveal of what Greta actually is. It's a horrifying eldritch creature that may or may not have caused the ship to go off course, but why is it so keen on keeping Thom happy?
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Her design alone should make this a rather clear example.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Despite claims to the contrary, Greta seems motivated solely by a desire to help the crew as best she can, a fact which is further illustrated in the novel where-in her ship was the first to crash. Even the creator of the episode says
her intentions are good, though due to her alien nature the results may be unintentionally horrible. However, that is more a case of Blue-and-Orange Morality than malice. - Contrived Coincidence: What are the odds of Thom finding her in such a remote station by accident? Turns out, it was no accident.
- Dead All Along: The reveal means the real Greta is long dead, seeing as "several hundred years have passed back home."
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Greta knows that humans don't react well to the environment they've been landed in, the situation itself or her appearance, and so tries to very slowly make those unfortunate enough to crash at her station aware of their situation. However it seems her act or psychic power need work as she has 'gone through this a thousand times' and dealt with many 'lost souls' who all demands to see the truth and proceed to break from the experience, and in Thom's case upon seeing her.
- Impersonation-Exclusive Character: With the reveal that Greta is just the form the creature was using to ease Thom, the only things we know about the real Greta are what she looked like and what Thom and fake Greta said about her.
- Ms. Fanservice: A gorgeous woman with a lot of emphasis placed on her during her and Thom's lovemaking. As mentioned above, it is not her true form.
- Seductive Spider: She's a spider in her true form, but in her disguise she comes off as an attractive old flame of Thom.
- Starfish Aliens: Her true form appears to be a monstrous, oozing, many-eyed and many-legged entity vaguely resembling a gigantic, fleshy arthropod.
