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The main characters that battle spirits.
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General
A group of paranormal investigators who fight evil spirits for pay. They consist of the duo Brucie and Jade, who gradually gain several allies along the way.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Brucie and Jade are a pair of amoral exorcists who hurt as many people as they help, Lucy is a remoreless Alpha Bitch, and even Marty eventually descends into a Yandere and Serial Killer. Their enemies, on the other hand, are the Cthulhu Mythos deities who see humanity as their toys and lack whatever good qualities the protagonists have. Though this gets muddled with the reveal that Jade is working for them.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: In Case 00, Brucie and Jade are revealed to be the ones who manipulated Grete into going insane and becoming a Yandere, and are the ones behind the "Cannibal Boy" legend.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Combined with Mask of Sanity. Brucie and Jade are able to blend in with society as either ordinary students or benevolent exorcists. In reality, Brucie is a cannibal and Jade is a manipulative sadist, something that James finds out too late. Even Lucy, a fellow example of this trope, is impressed by their ability to lie with a straight face.
- Moral Sociopathy: Despite their Lack of Empathy towards others and their need for stimulation, Brucie and Jade make an effort to treat their clients with good faith. In the true ending of Case 01, Brucie gives Lucy a discount for the exorcism fee because he failed to save Sapphire from going insane. Brucie also has an odd fixation with moral consistency, since he disagrees with how meat-eating people can eat some animals, but not others.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Brucie and Jade are an exorcist team and are always seen together, but there is no romantic relationship between them. Jade teases Brucie about being his girlfriend, but he repeatedly clarifies that their relationship is purely professional (and he's still broken up over Hans, his deceased boyfriend).
- Sociopathic Hero: The protagonists' stated job is to defeat evil spirits, but neither seem to be capable of much empathy and are both capable of telling lies with a straight face. Brucie admits he does this job because evil spirits have no human rights, which means there are no consequences for whatever he does to them. He's also a cannibal who sees no difference between eating livestock, pet animals, spirits, and humans. Jade admits she's only in this line of work for the sheer thrill of it and complains when the case sounds too corny, showing that she isn't emotionally invested in it. She also likes to manipulate people into committing crimes for her (and Nya's) own amusement. Though this is downplayed for Jade because she at least seems to care about being with Brucie.
- Villain Protagonist: Brucie and Jade were hinted to be sociopaths in Case 01, but Case 00 confirms they are most definitely villains. Brucie is a cannibal who is implied to eat a certain number of people a year, including his friend James. Jade likes to use her mind-reading to manipulate people into committing crimes and orchestrated the incident where Brucie ate Hans and Grete. Even when they work as exorcists in Case 01, they're only in it for fun and profit. Case 03 also reveals Jade to be an unrepentant servant of Nya who causes tragedy and death on their nehalf.
Bruce "Brucie" Lyne
- Cannibalism Superpower: Any spirits Brucie eats can be summoned as an ally under his control. Additionally, any spirits they eat get added to his collection too.
- Depraved Bisexual: Brucie shows romantic affection for both Hans and Grete, though mostly Hans. He also enjoys eating them both.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Brucie is a cannibal who ate several of his friends, but he won't charge his clients full price for any jobs he fails.
- In the fifth ending of Extra Case, Brucie is disturbed when Marty hallucinates that Sally is still alive, in contrast to Jade who is amused by this tragic conclusion.
- Eviler than Thou:
- When Grete feeds Hans to Brucie, she didn't expect Brucie to immediately strangle her and eat her too.
- He proves to be the stronger Cannibal Boy when he summons an army of assimilated evil spirits to eat the first Cannibal Boy's conglomerate of evil spirits, all while assimilating them in the process.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Marty gets discouraged over Sally's compact breaking due to his dependency on the lucky object, resulting in him believing he can't fulfill his self-appointed role as Sally's hero. Brucie bluntly tells him that there's no point in worrying over having the ideal heroic origin story and to just do what he thinks is right in this situation. This reinvigorates Marty to continue fighting zombies to save Sally.
- Glass Cannon: Brucie has high offensive stats, but his HP and defenses are low, meaning he'll die quickly without Jade to protect him.
- Honor Before Reason: Jade notes multiple times that Brucie's principles of client satisfaction, and refusal to charge if he feels he has failed the client, is the reason why the exorcist duo is in Perpetual Poverty. In Case 02, Lucy hires Brucie to kill the Grandmistress in order to avenge Sapphire, who was killed by the Grandmistress's zombies. Brucie technically fails to kill the Grandmistress because the latter sacrificed her own life to revive Gla'aki, so he offers Lucy a discount again, despite Lucy being willing to pay him more.
- Hypocrite: Given the revelations of Brucie and Jade's viler deeds in Case 00, Brucie comes off as hypocritical if he kills Lucy as retribution for her bullying in the bad ending, since he and Jade have committed similar if not worse crimes.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Brucie states that if Lucy doesn't pay him for the exorcism job, he'll eat her. And as Case 00 shows, he wasn't kidding, as he already did it to Hans (unknowingly; he was killed and fed to him by his jealous sister Grete) and Grete herself (fully knowingly this time).
- My Greatest Failure. In Case 03, Brucie reveals that he feels guilt over Grete killing Hans, who he genuinely loved. The Cannibal Boy of Mt. Candyhouse takes advantage of this by shapeshifting into Hans in order to make him hesitate.
- Noble Demon: Despite being a cannibal and rejecting the idea of altruism, Brucie always tries to keep up his end of the bargain in his exorcism contracts and gives his clients discounts or freebies if he feels that he failed to uphold the contract in some way. Jade notes that he sticks to this policy despite being dirt poor.
- Only Sane by Comparison: Unlike Jade, Brucie doesn't seem to have any direct connection to the eldritch gods and thus isn't obsessed with their sick entertainment, he disagrees with Lucy's The Social Darwinist philosophy, and unlike Marty, he is in control of his mental faculties. Unfortunately, he's still a cannibal who likes to eat both humans and evil spirits, and while his moral code is consistent, it's not exactly normal.
- Yandere: When Brucie learns that Grete fed Hans to him, Brucie is at first slightly shocked, but then decides that he enjoys the taste of Hans's flesh and eats Grete because as Hans's twin sister, she would probably taste just as good. This is despite having romantic feelings for both of them. Jade implies that Brucie sees eating others as equivalent to having sex with them.
Jadrienne "Jade" Lee
- Bait the Dog: She repeatedly seems to show some compassion for others or some other good side, only for the moment to be ruined by the end.
- At the end of Case 01, she seems to show some kindness when comforting Black's spirit after the bullying he suffered so he can pass on. After he leaves, she reveals that she's just really good at acting like she actually cares about other people, but really did that because it's her job to exorcise Black.
- She is friendly to Marty and Lily and seems to want to help them protect Sally as best she can. But if Marty dies, she shows amusement rather than sorrow, and she manipulates Marty into killing Lily with no remorse.
- The Corrupter: Much like her master Nya, Jade excels at manipulating people into letting their darker impulses take over:
- In Case 00, Jade initially allows Grete to believe the former is in a relationship with Brucie, only to reveal that Brucie is dating Hans, all to drive Grete into Yandere insanity.
- Marty almost sees the error of his ways in Case 03 and starts to realize that he's being inconsiderate of Sally in his attempts to protect her, but Jade convinces him to kill Lily and graft her body to Sally's head. Worse yet, Jade relishes in the possibility that Lily will become an evil spirit because of this betrayal.
- The Dragon: In Case 03, it turns out Jade has the ability to communicate with the eldritch gods and is orchestrating tragedies for her and Nya's amusement.
- Eyes Always Shut: Unless she's about to do something really screwed up, she always keeps her eyes shut, giving her a mischievous kitsune-like look befitting her manipulative schemer nature.
- Face–Heel Turn: In Case 03, she goes from at least a Nominal Hero willing to fight against Nya's forces to a willing servant who helps orchestrate horrible tragedy to amuse them (albeit only so Nya will spare the world in return instead of destroying it).
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Jade can hear the words of Nya and similar eldritch gods, causing her to realize that the world is just a game to the gods that could be shut down at any time. As a result, she only lives for her own amusement and is willing to team up with Nya to entertain herself.
- It Amused Me: Basically why she does anything unless it's for pay. Fighting spirits is more of a pastime for her, as is manipulating people into immoral actions.
- Manipulative Bitch: She spends all of Case 00 manipulating Grete into becoming a Yandere and killing her own brother Hans for kicks.
- The Mole: She is actually an agent of Nya who helps set up some of the conflicts and tragedy to amuse her master.
- Out of Focus: In Case 02, while Brucie serves as Marty's mentor and the shopkeeper NPC who appears a lot, Jade only shows up occasionally and plays less of a role than she does in the other games.
- Sadist: She loves to make people and spirits suffer alike.
- Stone Wall: In Case 01, Jade has high defenses and HP, but her offensive stats are so low that she'll deal Scratch Damage on hard mode.
- Synchronization: Thanks to her telepathy, she can make others feel her pain to distract them in battle. This is effective on both regular humans and evil spirits like Black. The Cannibal Boy of Mt. Candyhouse tries to get around this by killing her with one attack so that she won't have any opportunity to reflect her injuries, but she counters this by sharing the pain of her period.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She indicates via an analogy in Case 03 that she has to orchestrate horrific tragedies so Nya won't destroy the world out of boredom.
Ghosteaters' Affiliates
Lucia "Lucy" White
The Ghosteaters' client during Physical Exorcism: Case 01 and Case 02: Paranormal Evil. She is a schoolgirl who hires the duo to repel an evil spirit targeting her and her friends. She becomes a friend afterwards who they can call on to help with her pyrokinesis.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Due to her ideology, Lucy essentially wins in both endings of Case 01. Either she gets away scott-free for driving Black to suicide or Brucie kills her and succumbs to her darwinist ideology.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In Case 01, she is the ringleader of the bullies who drove Black to his death and subsequent revenge spree as a spirit.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lucy seems kindhearted at first, due to her sharing food with the starving exorcists. The missing journal page shows that she's a Social Darwinist who drove Black to suicide because she considers him weak.
- Freudian Excuse: Lucy was raped by her father, who turned into an abusive drunk because he was mistreated by his boss. This causes her to become a sadistic darwinist who believes she should become strong so she can turn her pain on the weak.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While she's obviously trying to deflect blame from herself, Lucy has a point that the school is ineffectual at stopping bullies and that people abuse their power throughout society.
- Karma Houdini: In the true ending of Case 01, Brucie chooses to spare Lucy despite her role in driving Black to suicide. He states that he's not interested in delivering justice and that if he kills her, then he'll be just like her in being the strong one preying on the weak. They even become friends afterwards with no hard feelings.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: In the context of Case 00, Lucy is less evil than Brucie and Jade despite being a sadistic bully, since she at least seems to treat her friends well as opposed to manipulating and eating them.
- Playing with Fire: In Case 01, when Brucie and Jade bring up their superpowers, Lucy sarcastically claims that she has dark flame powers. Lucy turns out to have innate power over fire, as shown in the final boss fight where Black makes her use these powers on the Ghosteaters.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Lucy uses several homophobic slurs when disparaging Black.
- The Social Darwinist: Lucy claims that all of society practices this even if they don't admit it. The school was unwilling to punish bullies, resulting in a darwinist mindset within the school's students and even the teachers who claim that the victims need to "toughen up." She also brings up how the government persecutes the homeless by paying people and ordering the police to spray them when they sleep. She is also a victim of someone abusing their power, since she was sexually abused by her father, who was abused by his boss. This mindset is so ingrained in her that she's slightly disappointed when Brucie spares her, since Brucie killing her would validate her belief that the strong prey on the weak.
Martin "Marty" Stu/Mary Sue
An ordinary loser who gets into a car accident and is transported to another world by the god of reincarnation, Nya. He takes on the form of either a prince or princess (but is male at heart either way) and is tasked with saving the world. After his journey, he returns back to his world and meets the Ghosteaters, who help him escape the hospital he is trapped in. The three become allies from that point onward.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Marty bonds with Sally because she constantly brought lucky clovers to his comatose body, despite them being complete strangers to each other. Due to this, he's willing to fight a zombie and cultist army in order to prevent her from being used as Gla'aki's vessel.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In Case 03, he's not the Cannibal Boy, but he's engaging in his own serial killings in order to find a body that Sally can attach her head to. This is also a case of Evil Versus Evil, since the Cannibal Boy is the one who killed Sally in the first place, leading to Marty helping to defeat the evil spirit. Afterwards, he kills Lily and grafts her body to Sally's head.
- Character Development: While Brucie and Jade mostly stay the same, Marty's character changes a lot throughout the series. He starts out as a self-absorbed isekai protagonist, but learns to face reality thanks the the support of his best friend. Once he awakens in the real world, he starts out unconfident in his ability to save Sally, but Brucie's words give him the courage he needs to fight against Gla'aki's cult. Unfortunately, his character development takes a turn for the worse when Nya traps him in a time loop where he discovers that Sally has a shadow personality that commits serial killings, causing him to become obsessed with protecting Sally's happiness by destroying all evidence of her crimes. Once the Cannibal Boy kills Sally, Marty loses whatever little sanity he had left and murders innocent women in order to provide a new body for Sally.
- Fallen Hero: He's a genuine hero in Case 02 by defeating Gla'aki's cult, but the time loop of Extra Case turns him into a Yandere for Sally. In Case 03, he really goes off the deep end after the Cannibal boy kills Sally, and he uses Gla'aki's extract to turn her head into a zombie. He then beheads at least two women to use their bodies to graft to Sally's head, and ends the game by beheading Lily. In the end, he has become no better than Shadow as a Serial Killer and a servant of the very god he once opposed.
- Gender Bender: He can choose to reincarnate as a princess in the other world, but is still considered a guy at heart and wakes back up in a male body regardless.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: In Extra Case, Marty starts each loop with only vague memories what happened. In the final loop, Nya restores his memories, causing him to remember all the times he died, as well as outcomes where he lived but Sally met an unfortunate end. This causes him to lose his sanity and become willing to do anything to ensure that he and Sally can have a "happy" ending.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The protagonist is allowed to choose a new name for themselves, with Marty Stu and Mary Sue being the defaults. Their real name is different, but Nya keeps censoring their name out every time the Cultist says it.
- Heroic BSoD: After the second boss fight in Case 02, Marty is defeated by the Grandmistress and Gla'aki again. The Grandmistress then breaks Sally's compact right in front of Marty, breaking his confidence now that he no longer has Sally's luck on his side. Brucie tells him to stop worrying about his abilities or backstory as a hero and just act according to his desires.
- If I Can't Have You…: Subverted. In the final ending of Extra Case, Marty grabs the knife and seems ready to commit Murder-Suicide on Sally with the knowledge that if events play out normally, she'll be subjected to a life of shame. Instead, he stabs the corpse "Seira"/Shadow patched together in order to dispose of it and prevent Sally from being incriminated.
- Ignored Epiphany: In Case 03, when Lily calls Marty out for being controlling of Sally and not considering her feelings, it seems like he might finally tone down his Yandere attitude. In the true ending, he kills Lily to use as Sally's new body without Sally's knowledge, all while claiming that he's not hurting her feelings as long as she doesn't know.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In Case 03, Marty goes from being willing to bury any evidence incriminating Sally to killing innocent women to give Sally a new body.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In the normal and non-canon ending of Case 03, Marty is arrested for serial murders after the Cannibal Boy is defeated, despite how the Cannibal Boy is a different person. However, the true ending reveals he did kill at least one innocent woman before the Ghosteaters went to his second house, meaning the arrest is justified. That said, Sally's death does get wrongly pinned on him, though that death happened in the first place because of his plan to bury Shadow's incriminating evidence]].
- Loser Protagonist: As indicated by the title of Loser Reborn, the protagonist is considered a loser because he has no more living loved ones or friends in the real world and escaped to a false world as a form of wish-fulfillment.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In ending 7 of Extra Case, Marty believes Seira is still alive and is the one killing him in all the loops. He kills her, but later learns that she was Dead All Along and that "Seira" and Sally share a body, which means he just killed his girlfriend. He loses it and hallucinates that "Seira's" ghost is out to get him.
- Necromantic: In Case 02, Marty secretly kept Gla'aki's goddess extract. In Case 03, Marty uses it to bring back Sally as a zombified head after the Cannibal Boy ate her body. He then becomes a Serial Killer trying to find a replacement body for Sally.
- Not Me This Time: In Case 03, Marty isn't the one who killed Sally, as that was the original Cannibal Boy. However, he is responsible for killing two women in a mad attempt to get Sally a new body. In the true ending, he kills Lily to accomplish this goal.
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: The player can choose which sex the protagonist reincarnates into. This has no effect on gameplay other than having a separate ending achievement and CG. This works in favor of the protagonist if they decide to fight the Cultist, since their soul originally belonging to a male makes them immune to headpatting.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In Extra Case, Marty only has vague memories of every loop, though Nya is aware of every loop because she's the one sending Marty back in time. Every other character has no knowledge of the loops, which leads to Sally thinking Marty is slightly more crazy than he actually is when he takes extreme actions to make sure the tragedies of the previous loops never come to pass.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Marty is the titular loser of Loser Reborn, having lost his family and only friend to a car accident. In this game, he befriends Sally and manages to save the world from Gla'aki's cult. Subverted by the stinger, which shows that he's still not in the clear due to getting involved in another paranormal case.
- Took a Level in Badass: Double subverted. Marty lacks the power he had from Loser Reborn and is just an ordinary human now, but he's also more willing to confront reality thanks to his best friend's encouragement, allowing him to fight the undead with mundane weaponry.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After the events of Extra Case, Marty becomes a toxic and controlling boyfriend towards Sally, to the point where he forces her to help cover up Shadow's evidence. After the Cannibal Boy of Mt. Candyhouse kills Sally, Marty loses whatever scruples he had left and kills women in order to find a new body for Sally, whether Sally likes it or not.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In Loser Reborn, Marty was willing to use headpatting to effectively brainwash women into joining his party. In this game, he treats Sally as a genuine friend rather than an object. It helps that he's going through a zombie apocalypse rather than a wish-fulfillment reincarnation plot this time. Sadly, this doesn't last by the end of Extra Case, where he loses his sanity and moral standards and becomes a Serial Killer by Case 03.
- Wrecked Weapon: The nazar Marty received from Brucie is damaged in the fight with the Cannibal Boy of Mt. Candyhouse. Brucie admits the nazar was a cheap product that he bought off a street vendor from Turkey. While it was useful against Gla'aki's minions, it's not strong enough to defend against the Cannibal Boy.
- Yandere: In the final ending of Extra Case, Marty snaps from remembering all the loops and decides to plunge the knife into the sewn-together corpse, intending to dispose of the evidence just like Shadow did with the extra body parts. While he doesn't do anything as heinous as Shadow, his wide-eyed stare makes it clear that he'll do anything to be with Sally and keep her from being labeled a criminal.
Sarah "Sally" Sweet
A girl who Marty encounters and falls in love with in Case 02: Paranormal Evil. She is chosen by a cult to become Gla'aki's vessel, and Marty decides to go rescue her.
- Alternate Identity Amnesia: Sally has episodes where she doesn't remember what she was doing. She is almost never conscious at the same time her Split Personality, "Seira"/Shadow, takes over her body, though she does sometimes have vague dreams about the latter's crimes.
- Came Back Wrong: In Case 03, the Cannibal Boy eats all of her body below the head and Marty uses Gla'aki's extract to revive her head as a zombie. As a result, she develops a taste for blood and is slowly going through Sanity Slippage.
- Death Seeker: In Case 03, she considers her zombification to be a Fate Worse than Death because she constantly craves blood and could become a danger to others. She asks Lily to kill her, which happens in the normal ending, but in the true ending, Lily convinces Sally to continue living instead.
- Driven to Suicide: In the eighth ending, Sally slits her own throat to prevent her Split Personality from killing Marty.
- Gamer Chick: She's a JRPG gamer and has Hero King Quest: Peacemaker Prologue installed on her computer.
- Good Counterpart: Sally ends up being the Damsel in Distress of this game like Lucy was in Case 01. Unlike Lucy, who is secretly a nasty bully and can only show empathy towards her close friends, Sally is a genuine Nice Girl who takes care of patients she doesn't even know.
- Magical Eye: In Case 03, she becomes a zombie and gains the ability to use the Evil Eye to stun others.
- Names to Trust Immediately: Sally's real name is Sarah Sweet. Despite the series' tendency to have morally dubious main characters, Sally has no hidden darkness and is genuinely supportive of Marty. Extra Case reveals she does have a lot of hidden darkness that manifested as her evil alter ego, Shadow, but when she's in control of herself, she's still one of the more benevolent characters in the series.
- Reformed, but Rejected: In the ninth ending of Extra Case, :Sally turns herself in for the murders "Seira"/Shadow committed, but these crimes go public, resulting in endless harassment that causes her to relapse into Shadow. Marty realizes that even if she serves out her sentence, she'll never be able to return to a normal life, which is why he uses the final time loop to hide all evidence of Sally's crimes.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Sally is portrayed as the main antagonist on the Steam art and title screen, making it seem like her kindness in the previous game was a lie. In reality, she has an evil Split Personality based on her deceased sister, and she never wanted to kill her boyfriends at all. She even goes as far as to break up with Marty in order to protect him from the "curse" that killed her previous boyfriends.
Lillian "Lily" Lilley
Sally's college friend and a member of the occult club.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Jade convinces Lily to pray to Nya to help Sally and get her a proper body. Unfortunately, Jade and Nya orchestrate events so that Marty kills Lily in order to give Sally a complete body.
- Dying Declaration of Hate: In the epilogue of Case 03, Lily swears to kill Marty and Jade for betraying her, even if she has to come back as an evil spirit. The ending title is "New Cannibal Boy," which indicates she will become an enemy from beyond the grave.
- Gamer Chick: Like Sally, she enjoys playing JRPGs such as the Peacemaker Series.
- The Hero Dies: She is the heroine of Case 03 who goes on a quest to find and save her best friend/crush Sally, only to be decapitated by Marty so her body can be used for Sally in the epilogue.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Although Lily is rightly suspicious of Marty, she ends up trusting Jade more over the course of Case 03 because the latter took a near fatal attack from the Cannibal Boy in her place. Unfortunately, Jade betrays her anyways and helps Marty kill her.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Although Lily is in love with Sally, she doesn't object to the latter's relationship with Marty until he starts showing signs of being a Yandere.
- Smiting Evil Feels Good: In the normal ending of Case 03, Lily becomes emotionally numb due to mercy killing Sally and can only find joy in exorcising evil spirits.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: By the time of her introduction, Lily is the only one of the main characters who is an uncorrupted Nice Girl. So in the endings where she doesn't become a jaded mercenary, she gets killed by Marty for the sake of his mad plan to give Sally a new body.
Humans
Sapphire
A blue-haired friend of Lucy and one of Black's victims.
- Asshole Victim: She aided her friends in relentlessly bullying Black, and ends up Driven to Madness by Black's spirit, and then killed by Gla'aki's zombies in the sequel.
Blaze and Moss
Lucy's two male friends.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: They mock Black for his feminine appearance in a flashback.
James
A friend of Brucie and Jade who appears in Case 00: The Cannibal Boy.
- Alone with the Psycho: In the ending, James is in a room alone with a cannibal and a manipulative psychic who is about to enjoy watching him get eaten.
- Ridiculous Procrastinator: Jade and James would rather discuss horror stories than focus on studying for their finals. James claims that if he gives up on the finals now, he essentially gets an early vacation.
Hans
A boy who was a classmate of Brucie and Jade.
- Ambiguously Evil: Not only is Hans's background similar to both versions of the Cannibal Boy story, he also talks about special kinds of meat he can eat and evil spirits, implying he may be a cannibal too. Though the special kind of meat also seems to refer to Brucie's meat in a sexual way. However, none of the dialogue confirms this and it's possible that Brucie's serial cannibalism and Hans's backstory somehow got mixed up in all the retellings of the Cannibal Boy story. Worse yet, he reappears in screenshots of Case 03 as an antagonist, but that turns out to be a spirit impersonating him.
- Red Herring: He appears to be the main antagonist of Case 03 because of the developer's screenshots. In the full release, it turns out the Cannibal Boy is actually a conglomerate of souls of abandoned children and Hans is unrelated to them, but they take Hans's form in order to make Brucie hesitant to attack them.
Grete
A girl who was a classmate of Brucie and Jade.
- Twin Switch: Grete disguises herself as Hans after killing him, and then feeds Hans's flesh to Brucie.
- Yandere: Grete is implied to be one for Hans due to the creepy look in her eyes when interacting with him. But she's also crazy about Brucie, to the point where she considers killing Jade when she suspects the latter is in a relationship with him. When she learns that Hans is the one in a relationship with Brucie, she snaps, murders Hans, and tricks Brucie into eating his flesh.
The Grandmistress
The leader of the cult that worships Nya and Gla'aki.
- The Dragon: The Grandmistress is the leader of the zombie cult and is loyal to Gla'aki. When Marty and Brucie free Sally from her clutches, the Grandmistress offers her own body to act as Gla'aki's vessel.
- Knight Templar: The Grandmistress believes humanity would be happier and more peaceful as undead, and therefore feels justified in placing the world under the thrall of Gla'aki.
Seira Sweet
Sally's deceased sister.
- Jerkass Realization: Seira treated Sally coldly because she was jealous that the latter was in a relationship with John. She realized she was wrong to let her jealousy of Sally consume her and wanted to reconcile with her sister, but she died in a car crash before she could get a chance. It's implied her desire for reconciliation is the reason why she never became an evil spirit.
- Posthumous Character: Despite Marty's assumptions, Seira is neither alive nor an evil spirit, though her death traumatized Sally into developing an evil Split Personality.
Shadow (Spoilers)
Sally's other self and the antagonist of Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets.
- Big Bad: Of Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets. Sally seems to be the main villain, since she kills Marty in many loops in order to protect her secrets. In reality, she's being controlled by her Split Personality, "Seira," aka Shadow, who is based on her traumatic memories of her sister and her Survivor's Guilt over the car accident that killed her boyfriend and sister.
- Love Redeems: Downplayed with the Serial Killer. "Seira"/Shadow, Sally's Split Personality, agrees to spare Marty as long as he can give Sally the love and support she deserves, but will kill him if he fails. In the ninth ending, she emerges again when Sally falls into despair over becoming a pariah.
- Serial Killer: As Marty goes through loops to investigate Sally's secrets, he learns that her alter ego, "Seira"/Shadow, killed her boyfriends in order to sew their body parts into her first boyfriend, John.
- Split Personality: The original game upon release refers to "Seira" as a form of Dissociative Identity Disorder, who manifested due to Sally's belief that she doesn't deserve love. The 1.1.0 update changes the doctor's report to be more ambiguous about her true nature and refers to her as a "Shadow" manifestation of Sally's self-hatred.
- Yandere: As more endings are completed, it's revealed that Sally's Split Personality, "Seira"/Shadow is based on her Survivor's Guilt, her Love Triangle with her sister and John, trauma over the car accident that killed her sister and John, and her belief that she doesn't deserve to be loved. Shadow wants to kill anyone with body parts that resemble John's and assemble them in the mad belief that she can bring John back.
Spirits
Black
The antagonist of Case 01.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In Case 01, he seeks revenge against the bullies led by Lucy, and Brucie and Jade have to stop him.
- Cruel Mercy: While Black directly attempts to kill Blaze and kills Moss in a car accident, he spares Sapphire while killing her parents, driving her to insanity.
- Dual Boss: The Final Boss consists of both the evil spirit, Black, and Lucy, who is possessed by him.
- Freudian Excuse: Black was viciously bullied by his classmates and the girl he had a crush on manipulated his feelings in order to torment him. As a result, he becomes an evil spirit seeking revenge against his bullies.
Cannibal Boy of Mt. Candyhouse
The original Cannibal Boy, who ambushes their prey by transforming into their victims' loved ones and tapping on their windows. They are an amalgamation of deceased child spirits left to die on Mt. Candyhouse and want revenge on the living.
- Big Bad Ensemble: They are the main antagonist of Case 03, since they eat the bodies of anyone who answers to their window knocking and are behind a string of murders, though Marty turns out to be the actual culprit for two of them.
- Hive Queen: They are a conglomerate of several spirits, but they always have a representative to bear their collective hatred. Every time the leader is defeated, they're simply replaced by another member of the group. As a result, the exorcist who fought them thirteen years ago had to seal them in a cenotaph.
- Karmic Death: They ate several innocents to satisfy their grudge against their home village. In turn, they are eaten by Brucie's assimilated evil spirits and added to his collection. At this point, Lily wonders if Brucie is the one who is more deserving of the moniker "Cannibal Boy."
- Mind Hive: They are the fusion of several abandoned children from Mt. Candyhouse, and they can separate individual spirits to act as minions.
- Misplaced Retribution: The village that abandoned them is long gone, so they go after the people of Parrot City and Footville instead.
- Not Me This Time: Not all the murders in Case 03 were done by them, since two women were killed by Marty, though Lily and Brucie assume that the Cannibal Boy did it after Marty turns out to be innocent of Sally's murder. Jade is aware of who did which murders though, thanks to her telepathy.
- Off with His Head!: The Cannibal Boy has a reputation for cleanly cutting off their victims' heads and eating the body. In Case 03, they inflict this fate on Sally, resulting in Marty reviving Sally's head as a zombie.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: They can transform into people from their targets' memories in order to easily trick them into opening their window. After encountering Brucie, they take the form of Hans for the rest of the game.
- Villainous Friendship: They consider each individual member of their soul merger a friend and they're upset when Brucie assimilates two of them. Justified because they're all from the same village that abandoned them.
Humans of the Other World
Party Members
- Amazon Brigade: All of them are cute women who can fall in love with Marty/Mary thanks to his headpatting.
- Battle Harem: They are Marty/Mary's fellow party members and fall in love with him when headpatted.
- Flat Character: An In-Universe example; none of them have any characterization beyond fitting fantasy archetypes and Marty/Mary's Battle Harem who love them. This is because Nya created them to distract Marty, enticing him from returning to the real world.
- True Companions: Averted. Not only are they constructs created by Nya, the ones on the left side of the castle are only recruited through brainwashing. In the canon ending, Marty chooses to side with his IRL best friend, the Cultist, over his party members that he has a shallow bond with.
The Cultist
The antagonist of Loser Reborn, who wants to awaken the Daemon Sultan Azathoth.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In Loser Reborn, The Cultist is summoning Daemon Sultan Azathoth to destroy the RPG world in order to free the comatose Marty/Mary from Nya, who wants to keep them in the false world for their own amusement and rules it as a tyrant.
- The Extremist Was Right: The Cultist is correct about Nya being a false god and the demon they're trying to revive, Azathoth, is actually the comatose protagonist in the real world. In the second ending, they'll team up with the protagonist to defeat Nya and return the protagonist to the real world.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Unlike Marty, the Cultist is dead in the real world and can only exist in the false RPG world, so he dies in the canon ending where he wakes up Marty from the coma.
- Only Friend: According to the Steam page, the protagonist has only one friend. That friend died in the same car accident and reincarnated as the Cultist, who believes it's his duty as the protagonist's friend to get him out of the false RPG world.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Cultist is willing to team up with the undead and use his own brainwashing abilities to force the castle's female soldiers to work for him. His goal is to wake the protagonist up from their coma and return them to the real world rather than allow them to stay in Nya's false world.
Deities
Nya, God of Reincarnation
A nigh-all powerful god and the true antagonist of the series. They are none other than Nyarlathotep. In Loser Reborn, they reincarnate Marty into a false world and task Marty with saving it from the Cultist, while destroying anyone that gets in the way of their illusion. They also send Gla'aki to the real world to wreak havoc. Jade of the Ghosteaters is actually their servant, who carries out their will and creates tragedies for them to enjoy.
- Bad Boss: In Case 03, Nya orders Jade to manipulate Marty into killing Lily for the sake of entertainment. They reward Jade by abruptly reincarnating her into the Peacemaker Series without so much as a warning.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
- In the tenth and final ending of Extra Case, Nya restores Marty's memories of all the previous loops, all for their own amusement. The trauma turns Marty into a Yandere who will do anything to protect Sally's secrets.
- In Case 03, either Lily becomes another cold-hearted Ghosteater, or she is beheaded by the Cannibal Boy or Marty; either way, Nya gets their amusement.
- Big Bad: For the overall series, Nya is the evil all-powerful entity manipulating events across the entire world and causing much of the supernatural terrors for their amusement.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In Loser Reborn, The Cultist is summoning Daemon Sultan Azathoth to destroy the RPG world in order to free the comatose Marty/Mary from Nya, who wants to keep them in the false world for their own amusement and rules it as a tyrant.
- The Corrupter: Nya uses the events of Extra Case to corrupt Marty, who thwarted their plans twice, by granting him the power to turn back time, then watching as he is driven to despair by his inability to keep Sally safe, and eventually becomes a Yandere and Serial Killer who carries out their whim. They also have Jade corrupt several other characters on their behalf.
- God Is Evil: At first, Nya seems like a snarky, but still helpful deity by reincarnating the protagonist. However, they'll erase any NPC who dares to point out contradictions in the world. They're also trying to keep the protagonist in their false world and spitefully sends Gla'aki to the real world in case the protagonist turns on them.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For every game before and after Loser Reborn. In Extra Case, Nya is the one sending Marty back in time whenever he regrets his decisions. Additionally, their cult recruited Sally's mother and caused the latter to neglect her daughters, depriving Sally and Seira of the emotional support they needed, which contributed to Sally developing a violent Split Personality, Shadow, out of the belief that she isn't loved. However, Shadow herself is killing Sally's boyfriends for her own purposes and has no direct connection to Nya. Meanwhile, Jade orchestrates the events of Case 00 and some of Case 03 on their behalf, and they even have some influence over the world of the Peacemaker Series. Basically every single bad thing that happens is part of their eternal tragedy to amuse them.
- Humanoid Abomination: Despite looking like an androgynous human, Nya is really Nyarlathotep, a lovecraftian being. This is implied at the start of the game, where you can ask if headpatting works on them, only for Nya to state that they aren't a girl and they have no actual head. In the first ending CG, they have eyes in their hair, further confirming that they're something monstrous.
- Invincible Villain: In Loser Reborn, they're defeated in the canon ending, but their death doesn't stick in Extra Case, and in both that and Case 03, they succeed in orchestrating a tragedy for their amusement. It's implied that the protagonists have no means of killing them because they're on a higher plane of existence, and they could easily destroy the world if it ever stops being amusing to them; part of the cynical tone of the series is because of how little hope anyone has of efficiently opposing them.
- Laughably Evil: In Loser Reborn, Nya is a cruel god who erases anyone who points out the world's contradictions and later sends Gla'aki to the real world to start a zombie apocalypse there. They also have their share of sarcastic, fourth-wall breaking lines, especially in the fourth ending. However, this gets averted with their subsequent appearances, which put more emphasis on their monstrous nature.
- Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: Nya takes on a form resembling a girl, but admits to not being one and is treated as genderless, being an ancient eldritch god.
- Villainous Legacy: Nya, the seemingly deceased Big Bad of Loser Reborn, had a hand in summoning Gla'aki to the real world. This makes them one of the main causes of the zombie apocalypse, though it's unknown how exactly they're connected to Gla'aki's cult.
- Xanatos Gambit: In Loser Reborn, Nya knows it's possible that the protagonist will try to return to the real world, so they send Gla'aki there to create a zombie apocalypse.
Gla'aki
The Goddess of the Dead and the antagonist of Case 02: Paranormal Evil.
- Big Bad: Of Case 02: Paranormal Evil, where Gla'aki is leading a zombie apocalypse cult to ravage a hospital and later the rest of the world. She also plans to use Sally's body to gain a physical form.
- Eldritch Abomination: Just like Nya, she's named after a Lovecraftian deity with the same name that can also turn people into undead.
- Everybody Hates Hades: Gla'aki, the goddess of the undead, admits to craving destruction and starts a zombie apocalypse in the real world the moment Nya sends her there.
- Flunky Boss: She summons a battalion of enemies with her to hold off Marty in Case 02, and when he beats them all, she periodically summons more.
