Due to the plot-heavy nature of the story, there will be unmarked spoilers in the examples below. You Have Been Warned!
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Main Characters
Eike Kusch
Voiced By: Scott Keck (Original), Yuri Lowenthal (PSP)
The main character, killed by an unknown individual and revived by Homunculus, he travels through time to discover the truth behind his murder.
- Ambiguous Situation: Eike's fate in the EX endings leave a bit of room for interpretation. While it's clear that his current form ceases to exist due to having erased the event that caused Dr. Wolfgang Wagner to become him, the epilogue features a young man living in the present who looks exactly like Eike, only with different clothes. Is he a descendant of Wolfgang, or actually the reincarnation of Eike/Wolfgang himself now properly born into the 21st century while somehow retaining all the memories from his past adventures across different time loops? The ending's closing narration, told from Eike's point of view, implies the latter.Eike: "All those people in my memory... What happened to them, in all the lives they lived? There's no way to know, not now... But I'm going to believe they all had a good life. And myself, I'm going to start living a new life, free of regrets..."
- Blessed with Suck:
- Eike is immortal and has eternal youth thanks to Dr. Wagner's deal with Homunculus. Unfortunately, Homunculus also cursed him with reoccurring amnesia, which means that Eike can't even remember, let alone enjoy, his long life.
- Also, while Eike is immortal, he is not invincible, so anything that would kill a normal person will kill him too. While Homunculus will resurrect him, Eike still has the memories (at least temporarily) of his painful deaths.
- Complexity Addiction: Uses ridiculously circuitous methods of preventing his death that never address the root of the problem anyway. Finally subverted in the EX endings, where he now remembers every previous timeline and is able to prevent Homunculus from being freed.
- Easily Forgiven: Not himself, but Eike is very quick to forgive people who wrong him. This includes forgiving Hugo and Eckart for their repeated attempts to murder him.
- Genre Savvy: When he first is introduced to Homnculus, he immediately pegs this as a Deal with the Devil situation but goes along with it since he doesn't want to die yet.
- Go Out with a Smile: This is how Eike meets his end in the EX endings. Instead of allowing himself to remain an Unwitting Pawn in Homunculus' machinations, Eike decides to screw the evil djinn once and for all by making sure that Homunculus is erased from existence altogether, either by giving away the Philosopher's Stone to Wolfgang Wagner and instructing him to make an elixir out of it to save Helena's life (thus preventing the need for Wagner to experiment with it), or forcing Homunculus to make contact with the stone and destroying him directly. Either scenario leads to Eike vanishing from existence, since the prevention of Homunculus' creation also means that Wolfgang never got to experience being turned into him, but Eike is okay with this, happy to have broken the cruel cycle of fate he was trapped in at long last.
- Identical Grandson: In the EX endings, Eike vanishes from existence because he prevented the situation that led to his original self, Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, being cursed with amnesia, eternal youth and immortality (thus becoming Eike) from coming to pass. The epilogue then cuts to a young man in the present who looks just like Eike save for wearing different clothes, heavily implied to be either his descendant or present reincarnation, since without Homunculus around to mess with their lives in this outcome, Wolfgang's children (Hugo and Dana) were able to live and sire descendants as normal, with Wolfgang himself properly living out his life and passing on.
- Identical Stranger: From the perspective of Eckart at least. It turns out that Eckart agreed to try and kill Eike not only because Hugo told him he would tell him where his daughter was, but because Eike looked exactly like the mysterious man people saw the day he lost his wife and daughter (in truth a time travelling Eike). He admits that when they first met he wondered if Eike was the man's son, but explains after his failed attempt to kill him that even if that's true he shouldn't blame him for what his father might have done.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Eike's a handsome, androgynous-looking young man with long, blonde hair.
- Mellow Fellow: He rarely shows much emotion beyond dull surprise.
- Nice Guy: Though his helpfulness depends on the player's choices, Eike is a good, well-meaning person who tries to look out for others' wellbeing in addition to his own. Notably, the thought of using his time-manipulation powers for evil or more self-centered pursuits (e.g. robbery, murder, rape) never even crosses his mind, only to thwart his own death while helping people along the way.
- Parental Abandonment: One cutscene with Eckart establishes that Eike has no memory of his parents, implying this trope. In truth, he's an immortal with reoccurring amnesia, meaning that his parents died centuries ago.
- Really 700 Years Old: Eike's physical appearance is that of a young man who is likely in his twenties. In reality, he's over five hundred years old. Immortality has its perks.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Eike develops this after the player unlocks the route to the EX endings, which can only be done by doing multiple playthroughs and getting all previous available endings. Armed with full knowledge of his true identity and all the things he learned from his experiences in previous time loops, Eike is now able to make conscious decisions that lead to true redemption for himself and to undo his mistake in unleashing Homunculus upon the world, even at the cost of erasing his current existence.
Homunculus
Voiced By: Charles Martinet (Original), Unknown (PSP)
A mysterious being, who helps Eike with his murder problem, but he has agendas of his own.
- Ambiguous Gender: He speaks with a male voice and is addressed with male pronouns, but physically looks feminine, complete with female breasts. Considering his nature, he probably doesn't even have a biological gender.
- But Now I Must Go: In all but the few endings that end with his destruction, Homunculus appears to Eike one last time to congratulate him in accomplishing what he set out to do, then bids Eike a pleasant farewell before disappearing into parts unknown.
- Dark Is Evil: Homunculus wears dark clothing and is associated with red and black imagery. He's also a Manipulative Bastard who plays around with people's lives and ruins them, some as part of a larger scheme, others just for his own sick amusement.
- Deal with the Devil: Homunculus has the power to grant human beings whatever they wish, but in return, they must forfeit their souls to him, and he'll come to collect in due time, as he explains to Wolfgang Wagner.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Chalk white skin and dark brown hair, complete with being dressed in all dark colors.
- Exact Words: He uses these a lot to manipulate Eike and obfuscate his true goals. For instance, when Homunculus first offers Eike his help, Eike assumes he's being offered a Deal with the Devil and the price will be his soul. Homunculus laughs and scoffs at such an idea "in this day and age". That's because he's already made such a deal with Eike/Dr. Wagner, four hundred years in the past. He also makes Eike think Margarete is his ancestor, without ever saying it. When Eike directly asks him, Homunculus just smiles but doesn't answer.
- Humanoid Abomination: He's a powerful, demonic djinn who takes the form of a petite, feminine looking person.
- It Amused Me: The reason why Homunculus decided to kidnap Margarete and Dana as babies and had them switched to be raised in eras that aren't their own. This act served no purpose for any of Homunculus' plans, but he did it anyway because he found it "fun" at the time.
- Jerkass Genie: Along with demanding their souls as price for their wish, Homunculus also delights in messing with humans regardless if they want anything to do with him or not. In one scenario, for example, he recalls the unpleasant confrontation between him and Dr. Wolfgang Wagner that led to Wagner's disappearance. Wagner ordered Homunculus to disappear from his sight rather than make a deal with him, so Homunculus decided to exploit the framing of Wagner's words by making him vanish into thin air as his cruel way of granting the man his "wish". (Also doubles as a Literal Genie.) Granted, this story is a lie, since the truth behind the event is much more complicated than Homunculus is willing to disclose, but the gleeful and unapologetic way he describes screwing over Wagner makes it clear that he's a creature without moral conscience or remorse.
- Kick the Dog: Kidnapping Dana Brum and Margarete Wagner as babies and then switching them for his own sick amusement was bad enough, but doubly so for baby Margarete, the girl who would grow up to become "Dana", since, unlike the Brums' biological daughter, Homunculus didn't even bother to leave her in the care of a good family to be raised with love, but just... dumped her somewhere for random people to find, causing said girl's unhappy and miserable life in the 21st century where she, in her own words, grew up feeling that nobody loved her.
- Logical Weakness: If a person traveling through time interacts with themselves, they cease to exist. So if he ever interacts with the Philosopher's Stone, which is really just his pre-transformed state, he's good as toast. This is exactly how Eike destroys him for good in the second EX ending.
- Made of Plasticine: For all his otherworldly powers, Homunculus' physical body is actually very fragile and will break apart if he receives even the tiniest scratch. This is proven true in Ending A when Eike accidentally drops the Digipad as he's giving it back to Homunculus, breaking it into several tiny pieces and a single shard landing on Homunculus' face and damaging it, which then causes his lifeforce to start pouring out of the wounded area until the rest of him is reduced to a lifeless puddle.
- Non-Indicative Name: Played with. Homunculus is a sentient being formed from the Philosopher's Stone, but he wasn't created through alchemy. Rather, Wolfgang's experiments simply released him. He's actually an ancient djinn of unknown demonic origin.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Homunculus is almost always in an eerily calm and relaxed mood, but there are three possible events that have him display strong emotions, all of which involve his downfall in some way. First, there's Ending D, where he erupts in anger when Dr. Wagner betrays him by forcibly turning him back into the Philosopher's Stone. Second, there's Ending A, where he's struck with horror upon seeing his Digipad break into tiny pieces and a shard lands on his face, fatally wounding him, and followed by panic as his body melts away into nothingness. Lastly, there's the second EX ending, where he has a similar reaction when Eike throws the Philosopher's Stone at him and he's erased from existence.
- Psychotic Smirk: Most of his facial expressions have him smiling at how everything seems to be going to plan.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has dark red eyes and is eventually proven to be a malevolent creature who cannot be trusted.
- Stable Time Loop: His ultimate goal. This is the only way to ensure Eike survives once Eike starts hopping into the past to solve his various deaths in the present. It's also his true motivation. Since Eike is actually Wolfgang Wagner, and Hugo is chasing Eike through time to eliminate him (wanting to save his family, not knowing Eike is actually his father), Homunculus needs Eike to survive the entire day and remove Hugo as a threat to ensure Eike creates Homunculus in the first place. As Homunculus notes - immortality has its perks, but he needs to be created, first.
- Squishy Wizard: Has some truly incredible powers, but admits to being rather physically weak. This is an understatement, because Ending A shows that he's literally more fragile than float glass.
- Undignified Death: Homunculus' demise in Ending A plays out like this. When Eike tries to give him back the Digipad but accidentally drops it and it breaks, a piece of shard ends up hitting Homunculus in the face and he also starts to break down, literally. The sight of him panicking and screaming in pain as he rapidly melts away into a puddle of red goo is not a pretty sight.
- Unreliable Narrator: In Ending E's route, prompted by Eike's curiosity, Homunculus recalls the event that led to Dr. Wagner's disappearance, claiming that Wagner ordered the djinn to "disappear from his sight" out of disgust, so Homunculus played a little trick on him by making Wagner disappear instead. However, those who've already seen Ending D know that Homunculus isn't telling the truth, since what actually transpired was Wagner making a wish for eternal youth, only to then backstab Homunculus by trapping him back into the Philosopher's Stone as soon as he got his wish, and the angered djinn retaliated by wiping away all of Wagner's memories just before he got sealed again.
Other Characters
1979-1980 and 2001 Characters
Dana
Voiced By: Julia Parker (Original), Laura Bailey (PSP)
A young waitress working at a local café. Gets tangled up into the plot pretty early on.
- Ambiguous Situation: Both EX endings end with Homunculus being unable to swap Dana with Margarete, meaning that Dana should have grown up in her original era. The game doesn't explain whether this is the case or if for whatever reason she still grew up in the present.
- Born in the Wrong Century: When Eike reunites with her in 1584, it turns out that she is much happier in the 16th century than the 21st. That's because she's the real Margarete Wagner until Homunculus swapped her with Eckart Brum's daughter.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: She doesn't find much fulfillment as a waitress. Should you deliver a letter from her boss from the present, she realizes that she might have a chance of a life in the future.
- Surprise Incest: Nothing happens, but since she is the real Margarete Wagner while Eike is her immortal father Wolfgang suffering from amnesia, their almost flirty interactions earlier in the game can be uncomfortable and one of the endings leaves it unclear whether there is romantic tension between the two.
Fortune Teller
Voiced By: Kathryn Nymoen (Original), Barbara Goodson (PSP)
A mysterious woman who is able to tell Eike the time of his death and on occasion gives him some advice.
- The Faceless: Her features are almost entirely covered by a black veil, save for her hair. It's to hide her identity of being Helena Wagner.
- Fate Worse than Death: She's a ghost that's unable to interact with the living and has been trapped this way for four hundred years.
- Fortune Teller: That's all she's ever known as, and she gives rather accurate predictions as to when Eike will die.
- Invisible to Normals: Only Eike is able to see her, due to a strange connection they have. As proven when Hugo goes to see her in Ending B1, the fortune teller's room is completely empty.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: She's the specter of Helena Wagner, returned to the world of the living because of Hugo's attempts to resurrect her through alchemy but only managed to bring back her soul. She then chose to stay and help Eike in whatever way she can, since he's actually her amnesiac husband, Wolfgang, who, in one scenario, got cursed with immortality and eternal youth after a deal gone wrong with Homunculus.
Eckart Brum
Voiced By: Bruce Robertson
The owner of an art museum who is haunted by the death of his wife two decades ago, and Eike's only friend who visits often.
- The Atoner: Ending B2 has him save Eike from Hugo and convinces the boy to peacefully return to the past, wanting to make up for his mistake of listening to Hugo and trying to kill Eike.
- Happily Married: He was this with Miriam before her tragic death in 1979. Should Eike change the past by saving Miriam's life before her fated killing, she later shows up in the present, alive and well, and still happily together with Eckart.
- Identical Grandson: His great-grandfather looks just like him, and it's implied that his ancestor in the 16th century also shares the same face.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Eckart is in his late forties to early fifties while Eike is in his twenties, except Eike is actually an immortal who has been alive for over four centuries.
- Missing Child: His daughter vanished the day his wife was murdered. No matter what you do, you can't prevent his daughter's disappearance, save for maybe in the EX ending.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction after he tries to kill Eike under orders from Hugo, horrified that even the vaguest hint to his daughter's whereabouts is enough to cause him to try and kill his friend.
- Nice Guy: While flawed and vulnerable to temptation, Eckart is a good-hearted man who extends kindness and sympathy towards others, including Eike, whom he sees almost like a son.
- Only Friend: Eckart seems to be Eike's only friend in town, since Eike is never shown interacting with any of the other locals on a familiar basis.
Miriam Brum
Voiced By: Kathryn Nymoen (Original), Philece Sampler (PSP)
The wife of Eckart Brum, who tragically lost her life in 1979 after being gunned down by an unknown assassin.
- Happily Married: She was this with Eckart before her death. If Eike ventures into the past and successfully saves Miriam's life on that fated day, she later shows up in the present, alive and well, and still happily together with Eckart.
- Posthumous Character: She has long passed away by 2001, where the game begins, and her character is explored through stories told by her husband, Eckart. However, Eike later meets her in person when he time travels to 1979 and can even undo her death, thus undoing this trope as well.
- Videogame Caring Potential: It's a daunting and time-consuming task that requires at least two attempts before success, but with enough perseverance, Eike can save Miriam from being killed in 1979, changing her fate and allowing her to live well into her forties or fifties as of 2001. She can later be met again in the Brum family home, still Happily Married to Eckart.
Oleg Franssen
Voiced By: Doug Boyd
A member of the Franssen family, famous for producing artistic genius of many kinds, Oleg has instead become a failing filmmaker.
- Famous Ancestor: All members of his family have been well known creative types, with the most famous being Karl Franssen who was a painter. His father was a watchmaker while his grandfather was a photographer, who, while less famous than his predecessors, still did financially better than Oleg.
- Giftedly Bad. Subverted. When Eike first meets him, Oleg is despondent over the fact that he hasn't been able to make a film that turned a profit or at least received good critical reception despite all the passion and hours he's poured into his craft, so he considers calling it quits after musing that maybe he's just not talented enough. It turns out, however, that he just needs proper inspiration to help stir his creative juices in the right direction, so when Eike gives him some interesting ideas revolving around time travel, Oleg's next film becomes successful.
- Identical Grandson: His ancestors all look like him, right down to wearing very similar specs and sharing the same haircut.
- Keet: Not so much with his present day middle-aged self, who has grown depressed due to his failing film career, but when Eike meets the younger Oleg back when he was just starting out in 1980, he's shown to be a very enthusiastic person, full of energy and optimism. Should Eike help him by giving the right advice and inspiration to help kickstart his journey, Oleg's career path changes for the better, and he's later shown to have retained his youthful enthusiasm back in the present.
- Nerd Glasses: He wears them, just like his ancestors, but the look especially fits him because of his archetypically nerdish behavior.
- Videogame Caring Potential: Oleg's story begins as a washed up, struggling filmmaker who's on the brink of quitting altogether due to poor reception of all his past works. In the routes where Eike goes back in time to meet Oleg's younger self and gives him much needed good pointers for his maiden project, Oleg's film career takes a much more positive turn, and his hard work finally pays off when his film about time travel proves to be a success, becoming a famous man in his own right like his ancestors before him.
1902 Characters
Alfred Brum
Voiced By: Bruce Robertson (Original), Douglas Rye (PSP)
Eckart's great-grandfather who is considering turning his home into an art museum or a library.
- Good Parents: His wife passed away some time ago, leaving him alone to care for their young children, and it's shown that he has devoted his life to raising them the best that he can.
- Identical Grandson: He looks exactly like his great-grandson but with a moustache.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Thanks to Eike helping him come to a good decision on what to do with his house by advising him against selling it and to instead refurbish it into a profitable family business (either a museum or a library), the forty-something Alfred quickly grows found of the young man and comes to see him as a family friend.
- The Mourning After: Part of the reason why Alfred initially wanted to sell his ancestral home and move away with his children is because the house keeps reminding him of his beloved, departed wife and all the memories they shared together there, making him miserable with loneliness. With some pep talk from Eike, Alfred realizes that converting part of the house into a family business is the wiser choice, since working there not only allows him more time to spend with his children, but also provides enough distraction to keep him from reminiscing too much.
- Nice Guy: Alfred is a friendly and approachable man who treats Eike with cordiality and grace, and is also shown to have a healthy, loving relationship with his two children.
Sibylla Brum
Voiced By: Sheila Rose (Original), Sherry Lynn (PSP)
Alfred's daughter and Eckart's great-aunt, who often helps around the house and with looking after her baby brother.
- Adorably Precocious Child: She's cute and curious as a button and is surprisingly mature for an eight year old, having learned household skills like sewing in order to help her recently widowed father, and takes babysitting her infant brother very seriously.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Much like her father, Alfred, Sibylla takes a liking to Eike soon after meeting him, especially after he gifts her a kitten to help ease her loneliness around the house, and she considers him a family friend from then on.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She adores cats and greatly appreciates it if Eike brings her a kitten, which ironically came from her own descendent, Eckart, setting into motion the family's shared love for cats and that particular kitten going on to become its own ancestor.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Although she comes from a well-off family and lives in a large estate south of Lebensbaum, Sibylla admits that it feels lonely sometimes due to usually not having many people around the house to talk to since her father's often busy and visitors rarely come over, made worse by the loss of her mother some time ago.
- Nice Girl: Sweet, friendly and helpful. Sibylla's first act upon being properly acquainted with Eike is to insist that she be allowed to fix the rip on his jacket, free of charge.
- Videogame Caring Potential: Eike can gift her a pet kitten to help ease her loneliness, and she will happily accept.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Downplayed since her overall behavior is still that of a normal, fun-loving little girl, but Sibylla shows a degree of emotional intelligence that most kids her age wouldn't even consider, namely her decision to take in more household responsibilities for the sake of her father and baby brother after the death of her mother.
Mr. Franssen
Voiced By: Doug Boyd
A photographer and a member of the famous Franssen family.
- Bit Character: Like Karl, and unlike Oleg, this Franssen doesn't have a developed personality or a story of his own. His only role is to provide context on who took the black and white photo of Alfred and Sibylla Brum that Eike finds in Eckart's office, which spurs Eike's interest to time-travel to their period, and who later photographs Eike (in juggler's guise) alongside the family.
- Identical Grandson: He looks exactly like his ancestor, Karl, and descendant, Oleg.
- Nerd Glasses: A look he shares with the other two known members of his family tree.
- Only One Name: Unlike Oleg and Karl, he's only ever referred to by his last name, and the player never learns his first name either.
1580-1584 Characters
Margarete Wagner
Voiced By: Jeanne Hartmann (Original), Stephanie Sheh (PSP)
The eldest child of the Wagner family who Eike saves.
- Ambiguous Situation: Both EX endings end with Homunculus being unable to swap Dana with Margarete, meaning that Margarete should have grown up in her original era. The game doesn't explain whether this is the case or if for whatever reason she still grew up in the past.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Margarete is fascinated by Eike's era and her impulse to break the social conventions of her time by wearing a dress considered above her station means she would fit in better in the 21st century. That's because she was born in 1979 and belongs in the present.
- Happily Adopted: An interesting case. If Eike pursues Ending A, the story concludes with Margarete choosing to stay in the present rather than go back to the 1580s, and the epilogue reveals that she's been adopted by Eckart and Miriam Brum (or just Eckart, if Eike wasn't able to save Miriam in 1979), who love and treat her like she's their own daughter. The twist here is that Margarete actually is their biological daughter, whose original name was "Dana" before she was kidnapped as a baby by Homunculus and then transported to the 16th century, where she got switched with the real Margarete Wagner. It's left up in the air if Margarete and her reunited parents ever find out the truth.
- Implied Love Interest: Nothing concrete happens, but Margarete becomes drawn to Eike soon after meeting him, blushing at his gaze and growing more and more interested in him as a person unless he shuts down her hopes by claiming that she's his ancestor (she's not). In the Ending A route, she decides to stay in the present and is later adopted by Eckart (and Miriam, if she was saved in 1979). Margarete and Eike are last seen walking to the park together in the epilogue, which can be interpreted as them going on a date.
- Nice Girl: Margarete is a sweet and kind-hearted young woman with an optimistic outlook on life. She always tries her best to do right by others even if it means sacrificing her own dreams, best seen in the endings where she succeeds in talking Hugo out of his misguided path, then choosing to go back with him to the 16th century to make sure he gets proper guidance despite her own wish to stay in the present where she feels she truly belongs.
- Surprise Incest: Since the Digipad only takes Eike to eras relevant to him and his situation, he comes to suspect that Margarete might be his ancestress or at least distantly related to him and has the option of explaining this to her when she asks why he can't take her to the present for a visit. By this point Margarete had developed a crush due to him rescuing her from a mob, and if told about the possible connection this causes her to realise that her life has already been written and that if she was to be removed from her time that could prevent Eike's existence which makes her give up on the idea of seeing the future. He's not her descendant but is technically her foster father as he raised her as Wolfgang Wagner before losing his memory, and one of the endings shows the two of them possibly on a date.
Hugo Wagner
Voiced By: Jim Singer (Original), Brian Beacock (PSP)
The younger brother of Margarete and the only son of the Wagner family. He's also been the one trying to kill Eike.
- Alternate Self: He was given a time machine by an elderly future version of himself who dedicated his life to inventing it so his younger self could go and get revenge on Eike.
- Ambiguous Disorder: Hugo possibly has some sort of personality disorder based on how quickly he can go from calm and collected to emotional and aggressive. However, due to the era he is in, it would be impossible for this to be recognized and properly diagnosed.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He's the boy wailing about his grandfather being trapped in the burning house in Chapter 1.
- Mouthy Kid: Hugo's got quite the sass as a pre-pubescent boy, often responding with sarcasm if it concerns a subject he's annoyed or frustrated with (like his emotionally distant father), and likes to poke fun at his older sister by playfully mocking her.
- Shipper on Deck: In Chapter 2, Hugo is quick to catch onto Margarete's budding crush on Eike, teasing her about it while also showing his support. Later on, he eavesdrops on Eike having a conversation with Dana, gets the wrong impression that the two are in a relationship, and expresses disappointment for his sister.
- Teen Genius: Starts out as a Child Prodigy when he's first seen in 1580, but becomes a proper teenager four years later. Hugo's intelligence is without equal and throughout the game it becomes clear that he's centuries ahead of his time. While he intended to have her fully resurrected, he did bring his mother's soul back to the living world as the Fortune Teller, proving he has a talent for alchemy like his father. His future self was able to invent a working time machine despite the limits of his era, and despite only spending a few days in the present he was able to master modern technology with ease.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When Eike first ventures into the distant past and gets acquainted with the Wagner family, Hugo is just a wide-eyed, curious little boy who easily bonds with Eike and comes to look up to him like a brother figure. Fast forward to a few years later, and that boy has been replaced with a miserly and murderously vengeful teenager, spurred by misguidance, wrong impressions, and bad influence from his own alternate future self.
Wolfgang Wagner
Voiced By: Bruce Robertson (Original), Michael McConnohie (PSP)
The father of Margarete and Hugo, who rarely has time for his children much to their sadness.
- All for Nothing: Dr. Wolfgang Wagner poured many years into his alchemy research, first to find a cure for his ailing wife Helena, then to discover the secret to creating life itself, both of which ended in failure (the latter also resulting in his son's tragic downward spiral). Subverted in one of the EX endings, where Eike can give Wolfgang the Philosopher's Stone on his first visit to the Wagner's home, and Wolfgang uses it to create an elixir that ultimately saves Helena's life.
- Alliterative Name: Wolfgang Wagner.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He wished for immortal youth, making a remark about Eike, and to redo his life from the beginning. Homunculus granted those wishes as his younger self is Eike and then erases his memories so he has to start from the beginning.
- Failed a Spot Check: Wolfgang never notices that the strange young man who brings him the Philosopher's Stone is (presumably) the spitting image of himself in his youth. The game actually explains this by pointing out that Wolfgang is so wrapped up in his work that he doesn't notice or care about anything else. That and if he had noticed Eike's appearance, it would have ruined one of the game's biggest twists.
- I Was Quite the Looker: Since Eike's real identity is that of an amnesiac and time-displaced Wolfgang who wished for Homunculus to give him back his youth, it's quite jarring to learn that this weathered looking man used to be a handsome Long-Haired Pretty Boy. Having spent so many years obsessively toiling away at his alchemy lab must've taken its toll.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Wolfgang has this reaction upon seeing Homunculus come alive before him, and he realizes that this creature wasn't born from his experiments at all, but rather an ancient and malevolent being he inadvertently released from imprisonment.
Helena Wagner
Voiced By: Kathryn Nymoen (Original), Barbara Goodson (PSP)
The mother of Margarete and Hugo, who is deathly ill in 1580 and passes away not long after.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Helena often coughs in-between sentences, a sign that she's gravelly ill and doesn't have much time left.
- Posthumous Character: She's already on the late stages of her terminal illness when Eike first meets the Wagner family in Chapter 2, and dies soon afterwards. Everything the player learns about Helena from then on is told either through flashbacks, or in the form of her spirit, the Fortune Teller.
- Videogame Caring Potential: If the player unlocks the path to the EX Ending, one of two branching ways to achieve this outcome is for Eike to give the Philosopher's Stone to Wolfgang on his first visit to the Wagner family, where Helena's still alive, and instructing Wolfgang to make an elixir out of it to cure Helena's disease. It works like a charm, not only saving Helena's life, but also allowing the Wagners to finally end their story on a happy note and breaking the cycle of tragedy that would've otherwise followed them in the wake of Helena's death in other story paths.
Karl Franssen
Voiced By: Doug Boyd
A painter whose art is kept in the art museum owned by Eckart Brum in the 21st century.
- Bit Character: Unlike his descendant, Oleg, Karl doesn't have his own story, but he does play a key role through his painting of Dana holding the Philosopher's Stone, which Eike later stumbles upon in the 21st century, giving him the clue he needed to ascertain Dana's location after she got accidentally time warped with him in the second chapter.
- Identical Grandson: He bears the same face as the other two Franssen men from the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Nerd Glasses: He wears them, just like his look-alike descendants.
