The cast of Veins. Spoilers are unmarked.
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Dream Residents
General
- Dark and Troubled Past: They used to be normal animals (and a human) that were experimented by scientists for "The Afterlife Project". Gin's body mutated into a virus that infected and killed the rest of the animals. The protagonist died after trying to escape the hospital, but ended up caught in a time-loop inside a dream where she was forced to relive the days prior to her death several times....which included the animals reliving their deaths again and again. This distorted their personalities.
- Dead All Along: Though initially they appear to either be dreaming or residents of the dream world, all of them were living animals until they were killed by the hospital in some way.
- Little Bit Beastly: The animals are experiments created with animal and human DNA, and tend to reflect that with humanoid appearances that have markers of what animal they were in life.
Main Characters
The Girl
The nameless heroine of the game.
- Afraid of Doctors: The chasers in her dream represent the nurses who experimented on her.
- Afraid of Needles: The Syringes Labyrinth, which occurs in her dream world, is made of needles and has giant needles pointing at her on the screen, following her wherever she goes.
- Amnesiac Hero: She lost her memory of her whole life, and her goal is to get it back. Her amnesia is to the point that she can't even remember her age or what kind of food she likes.
- Friend to All Living Things: She befriends Daniel, a bunny, and tries to befriend the other animals in the hospital.
- Genki Girl: To the point that Daniel says his first impression of her was "Too energetic and annoying".
- No Name Given: She is never named at any point.
- Periphery Demographic: She likes reading children's books, and Daniel remembers her reading some to him.
- Ship Tease: She outright agrees to marrying Daniel during one conversation, though he meant it jokingly.
- Vague Age: While she appears about 16, she lost her memory and so can't remember her age.
- Wingding Eyes: Whenever she gets annoyed with Daniel's teasing, her eyes light with fire.
- Womanchild: Daniel calls her "too childish" for her 16-year old appearance.
Daniel
- I don't expect you to completely trust me, but I can tell you a few things about you, so maybe I will convince you this way...
A white-coated boy who accompanies the girl and seems to know her.
- Afraid of Doctors: He mentions in a conversation that he hates hospitals, which is later shown to be because of the experiments done on him as a rabbit.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: The true ending scenario has you play as him- in his original bunny form.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With the Nurses and Patients for the main game. Turns out he has been the one erasing the girl's memories by killing her whenever she gets too close to the Awful Truth, out of fear that she will leave him.
- Bookworm: When asked what he likes to do in his free time, he says that he likes books. He also likes talking to others, contrasting the usual socially awkward bookworm character.
- Deadpan Snarker: He makes fun of the heroine and pokes jokes at her a lot, often while looking away.
- In the Hood: He wears a white hoodie with him. One of the Conversations has the heroine beg and plead to touch it, much to his displeasure.
- Troll: According to himself, he was an internet troll and "meme lord" who "created hell on so many internet sites".
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He has been erasing the girl's memories every time she comes close to the truth of the "Groundhog Day" Loop, because when she did remember, she would Go Mad from the Revelation.
Friends
Kyrie
- You will kill us so many times, that you should at least enjoy it.
A parrot who was experimented on by the hospital. He first appears after you met Gin in the Desert World. He seems to be aware that he and the rest of the animals are trapped in a timeloop created by the girl and resents her for that.
- Little Bit Beastly: Kyrie is a parrot and has multicolored hair, evoking a parrot's feathers. He also has the tendency to drop in and explain the plot as needed.
- Mr. Exposition: When he's not silently observing everyone, he provides exposition about the current situation. In the Bonus Room, he explains the girl's backstory, but at that point the player already knows.
- Official Couple: With Gin.
- The Resenter: Towards the girl for trapping him and the other animals in a timeloop. He's aware that she did it unsubconciously and didn't mean any harm, but says it doesn't change the fact he and his friends were forced to relive their deaths again and again.Death because of a virus more than hundred times, only because some little girl couldn't accept her life...Of course that everyone loves this kind of plays, pff.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Extremely sarcastic and rude, yet he's caring and fiercely protective of Gin.
Gin
- Kyrie told me not to show you anything sad and bloody, because it is the end of story. So here I am, guarding my corpse.
A griffon who was experimented on by the hospital. She appears in a cage in the Desert World.
- The Eeyore: She's not the most positive of people. Justified, as unlike the rest of the animals, she was forced to relive her birth and death multiple times.
- The Hermit: She doesn't want to be around anyone but Kyrie, and outright rejects an offer of friendship from the heroine.I do not need any friends...
- Hybrid Monster: She was created from the DNA of multiple animals, Mamoru being one of them.
- Little Bit Beastly: Gin is labelled as a gryphon, but her description fits more of a chimera, as she's created from the DNA of multiple animals.
- Official Couple: With Kyrie.
- Younger Than They Look: She looks like a shapely young woman, but the Bonus Room reveals she only lasted a few days after her creation.
Teru
- Oh my God! New person! Hi, hi, hello mello~ how are you my friend? Ah yes, do you want to be my friend? I'm sure you do! We will be besties! Aaa I can't wait!
A hamster who was experimented on by the hospital.
- Genki Girl: In the Bonus Room, she is seen running around her room and is very hyper about the idea of befriending the girl. She also says that she only sleeps two hours and stays awake via candy and sweets.
- Little Bit Beastly: Teru is a hamster and is very happy and excitable. She also wears fluffy clothes and hair, evoking a hamster.
- Motor Mouth
Mamoru
- I'm the coolest, the most popular aaand the most handsome guy in this dimension!
An eagle who was experimented on by the hospital. He loves to dance, and his dream is to become an idol and get masses of adoring fangirls. Talking to him gives you the No-eyes effect.
- Eyes Always Shut: He has black empty sockets when he opens them. Justified, as his DNA was used to create Gin.
- Idiot Hair
- Little Bit Beastly: Mamoru is an eagle and is associated with eyes.
- Perpetual Smiler: Mamoru is almost always smiling with his mouth wide open.
Mitsuru
A crow who was experimented on by the hospital. He manages the tea party room and makes tea for the dolls. Talking to him gives you the Tea Party effect.
- Little Bit Beastly: Mitsu is a crow and is gloomy and brooding, always wearing black.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: He creeps out the heroine with his all-black outfit and caretaking for Creepy Dolls and acting like they are alive (and one of them even giggles), but he doesn't understand why he or his dolls come off as creepy.
Other Residents
The Parents
The protagonist's parents who fell victim to possession.
- The Ghost: We never see them, only hearing their knocks on the door.
The Nurses and Patients
The chasers of the game. The nurses have claws and a giant eye for a head, while the patients have two heads, one a normal head and an eye growing out of them.
- Battleaxe Nurse: They have a big eye for a head and are the chasers who go after the protagonist.
- Big Bad Ensemble: For the main game along with Daniel. As dream representations of the nurses who experimented on the protagonist and the protagonist herself, respectively, they are the main enemies who try to keep the protagonist trapped in the dream world.
- Cyclops: The nurses have a giant eye for a head, while the patients have such a head growing out of their neck.
The Clones
- Please... kill... me...
Clones of the protagonist who are hidden in various parts of the game. Killing them all unlocks the true ending. They were made by the hospital staff in order to advance the Afterlife Project.
- Death Seeker: They all ask you to kill them if you speak to them.
- My Name Is ???: All of them are shown as "???" in the text box. The only exception is Mary, a clone that the heroine named.
NPCs
The NPCs existing in the dream world.
- Mad Artist: The boy who gives you the Blood effect has the whole area around him covered in blood, and has made a creepy painting (of a cyclops girl with a sword stuck in her open guts and a noose hanging next to her) that is indicated to have been painted with blood (given that blood is leaking from it).
- Plant Person: The NPCs in the Art Gallery are tall humanoid plants, like trees and roses.
- Oculothorax: The Drug World has walking eyeballs with four legs.
- Rat Men: The Art Gallery NPCs, besides the Plant Person ones, are tall humanoid creatures with rat heads dressed in suits.
Real World
Hospital Director
- I want people to experience their happy memories over and over after their death. And then we will connect all people - we will create a way to communicate with each other in our second life. Something like posthumous community, that would be really similar to our current, normal world, but without pain or death... Immortality and technological progress are at your fingertips! And we will achieve it, no matter how many beings we have to sacrifice...
The man behind the Afterlife Project. He wants to unlock the secret of eternal life and happiness.
- Big Bad: Of the True Ending scenario, as the one who's experiments on the Girl and Daniel drive the plot.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He appears briefly in a section of Hell before the True Ending reveals him as the Greater-Scope Villain behind the girl being trapped in the dream world.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For the main game, as his experiments are what trapped the heroine, Daniel, and the others inside the dream world, but he himself is absent and not directly responsible.
- Only Mostly Dead: At one point, his heart stopped, allowing him to experience the afterlife which, in his case, was a place similar to his old school where he relived the trauma of his youth.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: He will happily put an innocent girl and animals through human experimentation if it means creating a perfect afterlife dream world where everyone can live happy forever.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His goal in subjecting the heroine and the animals to Playing with Syringes is to create a utopian dream world that will allow humanity to live forever and happily.
