Superego/Characters
Sam Herbert
"Look, I don't want your 'help,' okay? I was just leaving!"
A sysadmin and the first character introduced. Hates to be around others and wants to get out as soon as possible. He has number 0 and Paranoid Personality Disorder.
- Butt Monkey
- Conspiracy Theorist: He's beginning to get some ideas about the hospital and the people he meets there.
- Golf Clubbing
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- I Just Want to Have Friends
- Jerkass / Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Somewhere between the two. He honestly hates dealing with other people, but he's not malevolent, just suspicious and wants to avoid being taken advantage of.
- Messy Hair
- Milky White Eyes
- Missing Mom
- My Hero Zero
- Rage Against the Reflection
- The Gambling Addict: his dad.
- The Napoleon: He's the shortest male in the cast, with a temper to boot.
- Nerd: Unattractive, dislikes socializing, good with computers.
- Perpetual Frowner
- Teens Are Monsters: He didn't like high school much.
- Twitchy Eye: Has one when he gets annoyed.
- Would Hit a Girl: Quin learns first-hand that chasing and cornering Sam is not a good idea. It immediately lampshaded on the next page.
"What kind of twisted freak would hit a girl?!"
Percy O'Neil
"Surely we could compare notes! Aren't you as confused as I?"
A nonfiction-novelist-slash-newspaper-columnist. Never seen without his notebook and is trying hard to figure out the hospital's mysteries. He has number 4 and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- Creature of Habit: Follows a pattern in that he always asks questions of every new person he meets and takes notes on every odd thing he finds.
- Expressive Mask: His glasses.
- Henpecked Husband: If his flashbacks are to be believed.
- Neat Freak: He feels obligated to make his bed after he wakes up and closes doors in the hallway.
- Rant-Inducing Slight: Eventually blows up at Rick.
- The Southpaw
- Super OCD
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Has an irrational fear of monsters.
Ava von Hall
"This place is spooky! I thought I was soooooo alone here!"
A college dropout and waitress. Appears to care more about flirting and socialization than her new situation. She has number 50 and Histrionic Personality Disorder.
- Adult Child
- Attention Whore
- Genki Girl
- Good Bad Girl
- Male Gaze: Seems to be going for this with her unbuttoned shirt.
- No Sense of Personal Space
- The Von Trope Family
- Tsundere: Gets huffy when her charms fail on others.
- Tsurime Eyes
- Youthful Freckles
Cherry Trau
"Uh... never... nevermind... "
A college biology student. Ridiculously shy and has a stuttering problem, but tries to be helpful. She has number 82 and Avoidant Personality Disorder.
- Extreme Doormat
- Eye Take: She's fond of these.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Rick.
- Meganekko
- Morality Pet: To Rick.
- Non-Indicative Name: Is not the red person, nor does she like cherries.
- Shrinking Violet
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: She regrets her own name.
- And Rick eventually brings it up.
Red Diamond/Louis Stone
"I don't take kindly to being shoved around."
A stockbroker who introduces himself with an alias. Skeptical and calm, until others get on his nerves. He has number 7 and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
- Agent Scully
- Ambiguously Evil: Is he really that much of a dick or is the hospital just getting to him?
- Disabled Snarker: Apparently has hearing problems.
- Dissonant Laughter: Laughs as Rick punches him out.
- Good Is Boring: Seems to follow this line of thinking, purposefully inducing a fight just to get some excitement.
- I Have Many Names: We only know one, but according to him he has many aliases.
- Jerkass: Even moreso than Sam, due to his disorder.
- Kick the Dog: So much. One such moment was when he took Rick's graduation invitation and slowly ripped it in half right in front of him.
- Slasher Smile: Hello Louis.
- Smug Snake
Rick L. Worth
"You must not have run into many good people, but never fear. You've ran into the best possible option."
A football coach and PE teacher. Towers over the rest of the cast and readily talks about himself. He has number 81 and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
- The Ace: He slathers this persona all over his intro.
- Berserk Button: Having his graduation invitation ripped to pieces is enough to send him into a blind rage.
- Eye Open: When Louis rips up his graduation invitation.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Cherry.
- I Just Want to Be Special
- Ignore the Fanservice: Much to Ava's shock.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex
- Kick the Morality Pet: Subverted. He rears back like he's going to hit Cherry after being sent into a Heroic BSOD after encountering his Shadow's Black Bug Room...then notices she's cowering and backs off, apologizing for scaring her.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice
- Large Ham
- Manly Gay
- Narcissist
- Perma-Stubble
- Top-Heavy Guy
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: His parents didn't attend his graduation.
Juliet Ross
"I've been expecting you!"
A telephone psychic who has been obsessively painting pictures across the hospital. She has number 22 and Schizotypal Personality Disorder.
- Background Halo: In her introduction page.
- Bi the Way: Pansexual, specifically.
- Couldn't Find a Pen: Instead, uses milk-based paint.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Besides her fingerpainting, she doesn't seem the least bit concerned about her predicament.
- Does Not Like Shoes
- Fourth Wall Observer: Adresses the reader directly. As if they're a voice in her head.
- Fortune Teller
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Seen here.
- Stealth Hi Bye: Pulls one when Sam and Quin leave her big meeting.
- Vagueness Is Coming: Talks about the hospital in this fashion.
Quin Orwell
"You're really great at first impressions!"
A photographer who was found on the roof. Gets irritated easily. She has number 83 and Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Dark-Skinned Blond
- Fingore: Quin's missing part of her pinky finger on her left hand.
- Gender Blender Name: Though her first name is Deirdre, she goes by her more androgynous middle name.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Lady Looks Like a Dude
- Mood Swinger
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She has a phobia towards lakes.
Helen Bixby
"We have to stick together, okay?"
A well-to-do homemaker who is afraid of being alone. After her number was called by Juliet through the intercom, she woke up on a bed in the middle of a forest within Room 2310. She has number 6 and Dependent Personality Disorder.
- Black Bead Eyes
- Happily Married: At the very least, she considers her husband wonderful.
- Lost Wedding Ring: She notices after waking up that her wedding ring has disappeared.
- Team Mom: Doesn't want there to be any fighting.
Darrel Grey
A doctor who was woken up by Helen. He is currently "checking a few things", as per his words. He has number 20 and Schizoid Personality Disorder.
- Asexuality: According to Word of God
- Expy: Looks very much like one Dr. Freeman.
- Hates Being Touched
- No Social Skills
- The Stoic
- The Quiet One: Doesn't disclose much, even to the audience.
- Opaque Lenses
-the shadows
A group of monsters who patrol the hospital, seeming to be the embodied self-destructive impulses of the characters. They have the ability to take the form of a mass of black tentacles or a colored outline of the character they're pursuing at the time. They also seem to have some control over the hospital itself, being able to create doors to surreal Black Bug Rooms which may or may not be the Shadows themselves.
- Big Bads: As of yet, or at least the real one's Co-Dragons.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Percy's Shadow gets into his notes, which are also a representation of the out of character Records. He proceeds to vandalize those with nightmarish graffiti until Percy got the notes back.
- Break Them by Talking: Their modus operandi.
- Combat Tentacles
- Dark Is Not Evil: Sam's Shadow turns out to be fairly nice when dealing with people not Sam, even showing Quin and Ava to where he is. He also explains that each Shadow is a representation of a person's repressed personality traits, which means they can represent positive aspects as well.
- Hearing Voices: They're the voices.
- Nothing Is Scarier: They have a tendency to stalk the characters in "black squiggle" form. They don't notice it, but the audience does.
- Secret Test of Character: Their goal is to make their normal versions accept the personality traits they represent. This is not a bad thing.
- Voice of the Legion: They speak with their respective character's color, in all lower case, on a black highlight.