Characters / Sucker for Love

This is a character page for the horror-romcom visual novel series Sucker for Love. Spoilers unmarked!

The Protagonists

D

The player character of Sucker for Love and First Date. He really wants to smooch an eldritch horror, so he obtained one of Muu's books fully intending to doom the world for a chance to get lucky.

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Darling" by Ln'eta, "Dearest" by Estir. Nyanlatothep, meanwhile, calls him by the far less affectionate nickname of "Dog".
• Body Horror: A lot can happen to him while you try to woo the girls. In Ln'eta's scenario, his lower face will be replaced with tentacles, while in Estir's, his face fuses with the mask you are given. No small amount of it occurs in Nyanlathotep's route, but the most notable instance is his face becoming an empty pit with a single eye, much like Nyanlathotep herself.
  • Inexplicably, if you wash your face immediately after summoning a cosmic horror, your arms will be covered in blood, and you are never told exactly why.
  • It gets worse. If you wash your face after performing Ln'eta's Metamorphosis, it appears that the skin around your mouth has been shredded off. Attempting to perform Metamorphosis after Estir's second-act scene will force you to rip the masquerade mask off, taking your eyes with it.
• Expy: If and when you get a look at yourself in the mirror, you'll see he resembles Vincent Brooks quite a bit.
• Love Martyr: In one of the better endings with Estir, completing the ritual has her demand the protagonist serve her forever. He responds that tending to her every whim and being treated as little more than a slave is what he'd do in a normal human marriage anyway, so the protagonist happily turns this eternal servitude into a wedding. Estir, meanwhile, is confused beyond all belief.
• Loveable Sex Maniac: He's willing to end the world multiple times over to get a kiss from eldritch abominations. The final route reveals that he's motivated by pure lust which has helped him overcome even the toughest of challenges that he has faced.
• Nightmare Fetishist: The protagonist knew what he was getting into when he first got Ln'eta's book. You can reject the girls of course, but the protagonist seems to be much more interested in getting to know them despite their dangers to him and the waking world.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He has no given name outside of the initial "D". Depending on the route taken, he will get a nickname starting with the same initial: "Darling" by Ln'eta, "Dearest" by Estir, or "Dog" by Nyanlathotep.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: And your entire apartment, apparently. While pursuing each route, your hair color and apartment theme changes to the dominant color of each cosmic entity: pink for Ln'eta, yellow for Estir, and blue for Nyanlathotep. Washing your face between routes removes the strange colors, among other things.
• Shout-Out: To Lovecraft himself - if the player decides to talk to Ln'eta more than once, she points out a black cat by the apartment. This cat belongs to his "asshole" neighbor that also has interest in the occult. Ln'eta asks what the cat's name is... and the player quickly asks to change the subject.
• The Peeping Tom: You can choose to look at Ln'eta while she's in the shower in both her own and in Estir's route. If you do, let's just say you won't be seeing a cute humanoid under the water. Still Worth It.

Stardust

The player character of Date to Die For. Brought back to her hometown by a letter from her missing parents, she soon finds herself pursued by the Cult of the Thousand and forced to summon the Black Goat of the Woods to survive.

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• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The protagonist of First Date is a male Loveable Sex Maniac with no Backstory, motivated by lust to summon eldritch horrors in order to smooch them, with no regards to his own or the world's safety, being involved heavily in the affairs of both L'neta and Estir. Stardust is a female asexual with a personal backstory involving her hometown, who only summons Rhok'zan out of desperation, and only because the ritual book assures that the summoned eldritch god is "benign".
• Determinator: No amount of mind-warping horrors or psychotic cultists will stop Stardust from helping or being with Rhok'zan. Best exemplified by the tally marks Nyanlathotep leaves every time Stardust dies. She's not only unfazed by the fact that she's died dozens of times, she outright weaponizes them and convinces Billie to join her by simply telling the cultist no matter how many times Billie kills her, she'll still keep coming back.
• Ignore the Fanservice: Being asexual, Rhok'zan's attempt at seducing her falls completely flat. Stardust even has the option of spraying Rhok'zan with a squirt bottle in response!
• Instrument of Murder: She uses a bass guitar as an improvised weapon to defend herself against Nanni.
• Love at First Sight: This is her response to seeing Rhok'zan for the first time in the demo, much to the latter's exasperation.
  Stardust: g-girl... pretty!
• Magnetic Hero: Stardust is capable of, through understanding and determination, convince each member of The Thousand to quit the cult and join her instead.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Between Episodes 2 and 3 of the game, she manages to convert 996 of the members of the Thousand Young, leaving only Kidd and Buck.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her given name is unknown; she's only referred to by her parents' nickname for her, Stardust.
• Parental Abandonment: In Episode 1, her parents were among the first disappearances in Sacramen-Cho. Rhok'zan eventually confirms them to have died in the Black Woods. Later episodes change her personal history so that they survive.

The Eldritch Horrors

Introduced in First Date

Ln'eta

Voiced by: Michaela Laws

Your first supernatural encounter, and your first romantic option in First Date (or the only romantic option in the original Sucker for Love). Ln'eta is a bubbly but dangerous horror who is devoted to anyone who completes the rituals in her book, but she can get jealous very easily. The universe the protagonist lives in is one of her dreams.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Ln'eta seems to understand human concepts of morality, but she clarifies that she is not ending reality out of any kind of malice - to her, all of reality as we know it is All Just a Dream that, no matter how pleasant, she simply has to wake up from eventually.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: You'd do well not to mention any other woman when you're with her. Not even the other cosmic horrors, and especially not her sister, Estir.
• Cute Monster Girl: A cute and curvy Rose-Haired Sweetie Cthulhumanoid. At least, that's how the protagonist sees her...
• Dream Apocalypse: Waking her up will cause the universe to be destroyed. However, her love for you is so strong that you are practically the only thing carried over from her last dream.
• Expy: Of Cthulhu, a betentacled Old One dreaming under the sea that's the grandchild of Shub-Niggurath (Ln'eta is even the granddaughter of the Shub-Niggurath expy, Rhok'zan). The nature of her dream indicates she's also playing the role of Azathoth.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her true form, as seen in the "AWAKE END", is a giant monster looking much like the classic portrayal of Cthulhu, towering over the city.
• Horrifying the Horror: Her initial reaction to learning the protagonist's intentions with her is to request to go back to millenniums of imprisonment.

Estir / "Missy"

Voiced by: Kayli Mills

The second horror heroine of First Date's second chapter. The ever haughty, tyrannical king (or queen) in yellow, she asks the protagonist to perform key scenes from her play and devote himself to her.

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• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: The protagonist manages to get Missy to reveal her true identity as the King in Yellow by tricking her into pronouncing a word that no human can: Worcestershire.
• Expy: Of Hastur, the King in Yellow, associated with a play of the same name that causes madness, and with the city of Carcosa.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: She's the planet-star Carcosa itself; the humanoid form the protagonist interacts with is a projection by the star's light.
• Divine Incest: If you decide to press Estir for information after learning she is related to Ln'eta, she admits that she is a product of this. She is technically Ln'eta's half-sister - they only share one parent, but they have the same grandparents, meaning their parents are related by blood. She equates her family to the Greek Pantheon, and reminds the protagonist that taboos for humans aren't the same as taboos for gods.
• God in Human Form: Estir initially presents herself as an eyepatched human girl named Missy in order to get near the protagonist and try to steal him away from Ln'eta, unaware at first that he's actually more attracted to fourth-dimensional beings with non-Euclidean forms.
• The Ojou: Owing to her being the ruler of Carcosa, Estir embodies multiple aspects of the trope such as having a notable Noblewoman's Laugh, her interests in high art like theatre, and her elegant body language.
• She Is the King: Estir is based off of Hastur, but she presents as a human woman and is described with she/her pronouns. Nonetheless, she refers to herself as the King in Yellow. Justified in that normal human concepts of gender most likely do not apply to her kind, to say nothing of the fact that the various deities you interact with can look however they like to the protagonist.
• Token Human: For the given value of the word human, but she's the only one of the heroines who takes a visibly human form.

Nyanlathotep / "Auntie Nyan Nyan"

Voiced by: Lani Minella (First Date, Date to Die For)

The third and final obstacle you must face, and the final heroine of First Date. Much older than both Ln'eta and Estir, she scoffs at the idea of horrors ever being romanced by humans and finds the protagonist a nuisance. Should the player refuse her demand to step off, his goal will not be to romance her—it is to survive her.

She is confirmed to return in Date to Die For, though her role in the story is currently unknown.

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• Cat Girl: But of course!
• Cyclops: She has only one visible eye.
• Expy: Of Nyarlothotep, the Crawling Chaos, Messenger of the Outer Gods, and God of 1000 forms, one of the most-utilized being that of an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah.
• Fanservice Pack: She is visibly more muscular in Date to Die For.
• Female Feline, Male Mutt: Invoked. Auntie Nyan Nyan herself is heavily cat themed, while D is depicted as a man that she likens to a dog.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: She boasts of having over a thousand forms. Thirty seven of which are catgirls.
• Horrifying the Horror: After D bests every possible obstacle she can throw at him, she becomes terrified. She can't comprehend what emotional forces propelled him to survive Ln'eta's awakenings, strive to kiss both of her nieces, and still come after her. When D responds that he's only operating on The Power of Lust, and that you're still intent on smooching her, she screams.
• I Gave My Word: Say what you will about her, she keeps her promises. Should D do exactly as she says and perform the severance ritual, she will reward him with a smooch. Say no, however...
• Mythology Gag: Her ancient Egyptian get-up is a reference towards how one of the forms that Nyarlathotep, her inspiration, was an Egyptian Pharaoh.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In Date to Die For she carves a tally count of Stardust's deaths on a wall hoping to drive her to despair. That same tally instead lets Stardust convince Billie that she cannot be permanently defeated.

Introduced in Date to Die For

Rhok'zan

Voiced by: Kirsten Candelore

The sole romantic option of Date to Die For. The Black Goat of the Woods, she is summoned by Stardust to help her survive the Cult of the Thousand.

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• Benevolent Abomination: The most benign of all of the eldritch gods featured in the series, as not only her main intent is to bring gifts of health and fertility to mankind, but she can't even bring herself to directly harm a human, even as the Thousand Young use her gifts for evil.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her full name is Rhok'zan Selva Oscura, the latter two words translate from Italian into "Dark Forest".
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Besides her Extra Eyes, she alludes to having multiple hearts, as well.
  • Of course; her true form is the Black Woods itself, which literally has three hearts.
• Explosive Breeder: She has a thousand grandchildren, and doesn't mind adding one more to the list... at least, she wouldn't if Stardust wanted a child in the first place.
• Expy: Of Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with 1000 Young, and Cthulhu's grandmother. Rhok'zan is even the grandmother of the Cthulhu expy, Ln'eta.
• Extra Eyes: Those lines under her eyes? They're actually another pair of eyes, which open when she's surprised.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her true body is the entirety of the Black Woods that are overgrowing Sacramen-Cho. When Stardust asks if it means her true appearance is just a regular tree, Rhok'zan replies that it's a really sexy tree.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Unlike the gods that came before her, she starts with three hearts already broken, representing the trauma and pain she went through from Buck and the Thousand Young betraying her.
• I Want Grandkids: Rhok'zan wants as many grandchildren as she can have, and takes it pretty hard when Stardust explicitly states she doesn't want children or the powers that would come with having them. She does eventually get over it, though, and apologizes for losing her composure.
  • In the final ending of the game, the former Thousand Young warn Stardust that she's currently having the "grandkids talk" with her parents.
• Stacy's Mom: Ticks all the boxes, being a mother-goddess of fertility and sex, and pretty much the platonic ideal of motherhood. Even her goat-woman form invokes many of the MILF traits. Unfortunately, her presence inspires such fanatical lust in her worshippers that she's trapped in Sacramen-Cho.
• Tsundere: Rhok'zan has been stuck for years being abused by the Cult of the Thousand and initially mistakes Stardust for another one, leading to her being extremely moody when you meet her and it quickly becomes embarrassed grumpy shyness when she realizes Stardust is romantically attracted to her. She warms up pretty quickly when she realizes Stardust actually freed her and isn't one of her followers, though.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: This is her reaction in the demo when she realizes that Stardust is experiencing Love at First Sight rather that fear or Sanity Slippage.
  Rhok'zan: OH MY GOD. I thought I was driving you insane!! All that sweating, and hyperventilating— it looked like you were going to throw up!
  Stardust: Oh, that just happens when I talk to girls sometimes.
  Rhok'zan: WHAT?!
  • She also reacts this way to Stardust believing that taking Rhok'zan as her "partner" entails a romantic relationship, as opposed to a sexual one.
    Rhok'zan: YOU THOUGHT — (cough) You thought, of the two definitions of 'partners', that a fertility goddess was referring to the platonic meaning?!

Muu

Voiced by: Katy Johnson (Date to Die For)

A shoggoth who made the books you use to romance the girls. Hidden in the notes of the books they write are concrete clues to deal with them and the terrors they bring.

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• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Muu disguises themselves as a book store owner in Sacramen-Cho. They accidentally get found out when Stardust wakes up early and sees the disguise hanging from the ceiling after Muu cleaned it.
• Expy: Of Mu, a mystical lost continent and source of civilization that appears in some Mythos stories.
• The Ghost: Never seen or interacted with in any of First Date's routes, although their presence is felt through the books. Averted in Date to Die For, where they do make a physical appearance.
• Invisibility Ink: Nyanlathotep's book seems normal at first, consisting only of the spell to sever ties with the supernatural. It's only when you put a black light to it that you see the rest of the book, which teaches you how to survive the curses Auntie Nyan Nyan will inflict on you.
• Shipper on Deck: Turns out they are obsessed with human/eldritch god relationships, and have created the ritual books specifically to facilitate them. This turns out to be part of her motive for moving to the human world and setting up a bookstore in Sacremen-Cho, to satisfy her lust for humans as well as an opportunity to write and read as much smut as she wants. In particular, In-Universe fanfiction about those who use her ritual books, like D and Stardust.

Other Humans

The Thousand Young

Rhok'zan's cultists in Date to Die For, who turned on her and are using the powers they gained from her for evil.

In general

• Animal Theme Naming: The names of each of the main cultists are goat-related.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Most of them are manipulated into obeying Buck by exploiting their desires, amplified due to the Black Woods' influence.
• Cult Of Evil: Notable in that they are a malevolent cult of the otherwise benign Rhok'zan.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the True End of each episode, they end up breaking off Buck's influence and aiding Stardust. Rhok'zan indicates in Chapter 999 that between Chapter 2 and 999, Stardust had offscreen made each member of the cult turn their back towards them, with Kidd being the only one left.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Most wear masks.

Nanni

• Fangirl: Starts as one for Buck. If Stardust heals her, she gets over it.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Buck shooting into Stardust's room disregarding her safety and caring more about the book than he does for her snaps her out of her delusion and makes her open up to Stardust.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Averted, as despite Rhok'zan being justifiably mistrustful of her former cultist and constantly warning Stardust that Nanni could screw everything up for both of them just to get back with Buck, should Stardust heal her, Nanni returns the favor by collecting all the ingredients needed for the Uprooting ritual for her and giving Stardust her cultist robes so that Stardust can safely escape while Nanni remains behind to ensure the Book is destroyed.
• Valley Girl: Has the inflection and mannerisms of the stereotype. Stardust adpts her way of talking to bluff her way past the Thousand Young in the True End of episode 1.

Billie

Voiced by: Autumn Ivy

A muscular woman who serves as the main threat in Episode 2.

• Amazonian Beauty: Stands one full head taller than the other cultists and has the brawn to match.
• Batter Up!: She kills Stardust with a baseball bat if she catches her.
• Blood Knight: She believes in a fair fight, sending the other cultists out of the house and even breaking her own arm to match Stardust's injury to give her a fair chance.
• Might Makes Right: Follows Buck's orders because she perceives him as more powerful than her, to the point where she's not even one of the Thousand: her loyalty is purely due to her code of honor. She defects in Stardust's favor when she realizes the latter being able to start again in another reality with no wounds means Buck can never permanently defeat her.

Kidd

Voiced by: Chris Zambelis

• I Just Want to Be Loved: He craves adoration from his fans; this desire is what lured him to the Black Woods and led him to join the Thousand Young.
• One-Hit Wonder: In-universe, his claim to fame is his single hit Lonely Devil.
• Saying Too Much: He details to Stardust the measures he took to prevent her from finishing the Uprooting ritual...the last of which is burning the list to prevent her from finding out about his plan. Possibly subverted, see Schmuck Bait below.
  Buck: "And number six, burn this list after doing everything on it so she doesn't know... what's... coming. Oh."
• Schmuck Bait: He boasts to Stardust that the loud music in the TV room will prevent her from hearing the Thousand Young's footsteps. If Stardust goes to turn off the TV, it turns out Kidd counted on her doing so and ambushes her, causing a game over.
  Buck: "Number seven: wait for you to come turn off the music."
• Talking Down the Suicidal: He resolves to let himself burn with the Black Woods. Stardust manages to convince him to escape as he still has a musical career to live for.

Buck

• Achievements in Ignorance: As Muu describes it, Buck just impulsively kissed Rohk'zan one day. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this action perfectly performed the Kiss of Immortality ritual by complete accident.
• Bad Boss: He has no qualms about shooting into Stardust's room knowing Nanni is in there (only stopping because he might destroy the book) or shooting Billie when she helps Stardust escape. He also personally hunts down the members of the Thousand Young that have previously sided with Stardust in each new reality.
• Foil: To Stardust. He used Rohk'zan's powers selfishly and broke her heart(s) by not only stealing the Kiss of Immortality from her, but regretting his choice , tormenting her over his bitterness, and becoming convinced that living forever means that you will eventually know only pain and misery. Stardust meanwhile is genuinely attracted to the Elder God, mends her broken heart(s) by undoing the trauma Buck and the Thousand Young caused her, consensually receives the Kiss of Immortality from her, and sees immortality as a chance to not only see something new every time but also to wait out the bad days until better times come.
  • He is also one for D, the protagonist of the previous game. Where D is more of a Lovable Sex Maniac who uses The Power of Lust to gain the willpower needed to stand up to the eldritch entities he summons into his reality and is rather honest and upfront with them (two-timing Ln'Eta and Estir notwithstanding), Buck is a spiteful man who harbors nothing but resentment towards Rhok'zan and doesn't think twice about manipulating others for his own ends. They also both antagonize Nyanlatothep, but while D only does so to stop her from interfering with human/eldritch relationships, Buck does it in a calculated move to erase all reality (see below).
• Heel Realization: After being defeated by Stardust for the last time, she drags him across the void between realities telling him to stop when he sees a place where he thinks he can find happiness. After the credits roll, Buck stops wherever the player clicks the prompt to do so and decides to explore the void for a while to look for his own happiness, letting Stardust return to the new reality to Rhok'zan.
• Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Attempts one as a desperate move at the end of the game, planning to torment Nyanlatothep until she is forced to wake up the Eternal Sleeper and erase all of the Elder Gods (and thus all realities) forever.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Buck persists through realities, but at the same time so does any injury on his body. By Episode 4, his body is mutilated beyond recognization but he's still alive. This also gives him the nihilistic conviction that an immortal will eventually run out of reasons to find happiness and eventually only know eternal torment.