Ib/Characters

While kouri's Ib doesn't have many characters, the few that there are manage to become rather fleshed out in a very short space of time, especially for a horror game. They are listed below with their associated tropes.

Ib (Eve)

The titular character and protagonist of the game, Ib is a simply a young girl that visits the art gallery with her parents. When everything gets worse, Ib must solve puzzles and dodge evil paintings to somehow find a way back home.

• Adorably Precocious Child: She's only nine, and she can figure out puzzles that many adults would have trouble with.
• Badass Adorable
• Daddy's Girl: Some dialogue options reveal her to be this.
• Heroic Mime: Ib has no dialogue lines of her own; the player only learns what she says to other characters from their responses.
• I Will Wait for You: One interpretation of "The Promise of Reunion" ending.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted. She might look like a Creepy Child at first glance from the title screen, but she's far from it. She inherited it from her mother.
• Silent Protagonist: It's possible to see nearly all of the game with "..." being all she says.
• The Stoic: Doesn't say much or express much, especially for a little kid.

Garry

A mildly flamboyant young man that Ib runs into and saves, he decides to travel with Ib and find a way to escape with her.

• Big Brother Instinct: To Ib.
• Bishonen
• Chekhov's Gunman: He's one of the many people in the gallery at the start of the game.
• Cowardly Lion
• Dude in Distress: A bit, when you first meet him.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He speaks like a woman (uses female japanese pronouns instead of male) because he'd prefer being... gentle.
• Lolicon: How the other half of the fanbase sees his attachment to Ib.
• Memento MacGuffin: When you take the option to give the handkerchief to him for his wounds (you must have a high bond level or talked to him frequently to get it), you will able to see the game's best ending.
• Mysterious Past: We never really learn why he became trapped in the same world with Ib.
• Nice Guy
• Peek-a-Bangs: One eye is covered by his (dyed?) hair.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Lavender hair with dark purple streaks at the top.

Mary

Another young girl right around Ib's age that she and Garry meet in the gallery. She readily agrees to their invitation to stay with them and find a way out.

• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Kinda doesn't listen to Garry's warning about the importance of their roses at all because she becomes distracted by their prettiness and then rambles about her favorite colors.
• Ax Crazy: Palette knife crazy, to be more exact.
• Blondes Are Evil: Or if not evil, lonely paintings that come to life and want to kill someone in order to get out into the real world.
• Cheerful Child: Seems like a bit of a Foil to Ib's seriousness.
• Cuteness Equals Forgiveness: While not necessarily in-universe, many fans are willing to overlook Mary's rather questionable actions because she's so adorable. Of course, it does help that she has rather pitiable motives.
• Disappeared Dad: She comments on how she doesn't even have a dad, and so would like to meet Ib's parents.
• The Ditz: Though this might just be because she's only around Ib's age, which is nine. Or because she's a painting that really doesn't know any better.
• Hair of Gold
• Light Is Not Good
• Murder the Hypotenuse: An interpretation of her exchanging Ib's rose for Garry's.
• Yandere