I've been introducing the characters slowly on my tumblr, but I wanted to post them here once I finished giving bios for Jimmy's immediate family. And I have! So here it is:



Jimmy is eight years old. If you were to see Jimmy at the grocery store with his parents, he wouldn’t be the kid who runs around the aisles using everything in site as prop comedy. He’d be the kind of kid who would hide behind his mother instead of making eye contact with you. He’s so quiet you might even call him a silent protagonist, but he’s not, really. He talks to you in all sorts of ways. Everything you see in the game is a message straight from Jimmy. He might be the most talkative silent protagonist of all time.

Jimmy’s favorite show is Jonathon Bear’s Playtime Forest. Other kids in his grade have made fun of him for it, but they still watch it in secret. He likes to play videogames with his uncle. He looks up to his older brother more than anyone. He loves his parents very much. He doesn’t want a dog; they scare him.

Jimmy’s core character trait is his empathy. Combined with his imagination, this allows Jimmy to transform into a number of monsters he comes across. At the start of the game, Jimmy might not be very strong, but using his powers of empathy, Jimmy will slowly gain strength and learn abilities from the monsters he transforms into.



There are two things Buck loves more than anything else: pumping iron and punching nerds. If you went to high school with Buck and he found out you had a Tumblr, chances are he’d stuff you in a locker. I don’t even want to know what he’d do to me once he figured out who created him. He’d probably have an existential crisis after the swelling went down in his fists.

His favorite band is a hardcore thrash band called Gut Punch who are known for producing harsh, nonsensical noise rather than music, and if you put a stethoscope to Buck’s forehead, then you might just hear that same anarchical static playing continuously. But, you’d never get a stethoscope anywhere near him. Doctors have stethoscopes–and doctors are nerds.

There’s no getting around it: Buck’s a bully. He resents having to live with a household that is 3/5ths nerd. And, Jimmy–Jimmy’s the worst. Such a weak little kid. Buck looks after him because his mother asked, but that’s it. Buck can see that the way his mother coddles Jimmy means that he’ll never get any stronger, and Buck can’t stand that more than anything. But, Jimmy looks up to his brother. It’s the way things go; little brothers always look up to their big brothers.

Buck might be brash, but that just makes him all the more menacing in fights. His skill set is built around intimidation and straight-up clobbering, and he naturally has a chance to attack twice.



Jimmy’s mother, Helga, is sunshine in human form. She loves smiling more than anything. No, she loves her job more than anything. Wait, no, she loves gardening more than anything. She just loves everything. Well, maybe she loves her family the most, but that doesn’t mean her boundless love for everything won’t distract her from time to time.

Helga is the emotional core of Jimmy’s family. She protects and encourages Jimmy, and she’s the only member of the family who Buck respects, both because of her strength and, well, she’s his mom.

Helga is so optimistic that she refuses to let anything get her down, including most common status effects, which she’s immune to. This works well for her, as most of her skills are centered around healing, so, like in her family, she’ll hold the team together in combat.



Fact: Andrew is Jimmy’s father.

Fact: Andrew is a professor of paleontology.

Fact: Andrew is the smartest person in the universe.

Okay, so the third one might not be a fact, but, to Jimmy, that’s an absolute truth. Andrew is an infinite fountain of information, not all of which Jimmy understands, and every day at school Jimmy tries hard to learn so that one day he won’t feel so stupid around his father. It’s a difficult task, though, and Jimmy often feels ashamed about it.

That’s not to say Andrew ever puts Jimmy down. He’s just the kind of guy whose emotions are a bit subdued. While Helga would be concerned with maintaining happiness in the household, Andrew only wants contentment. For example, if Jimmy is upset because his homework is too difficult, Helga might try to lift his spirits with a trip to the movies. Andrew, on the other hand, knows from firsthand experience that the struggle is an important part of the learning process, so he would let Jimmy work through his own problems. He just might not be good at voicing that reason to Jimmy.

Andrew is erudite, which gives him a passive MP regen in combat. This allows him to use his powerful science skills without fear of depleting his resources, and if push comes to shove, he can quickly burn through MP in order to make his skills much more powerful.



Uncle Lars…never really took off in life. He tried, though! I mean, not particularly hard, but you know how the job market is, and being out of work for so long, well, employers don’t really know what to make of that. Then there are his self-confidence problems. A lifetime of being verbally beat down can be incapacitating.

But, something strange can happen, too. Years of insults, self-doubt, and sponging have helped Lars obtain a curious zen state. “Why does it matter if you hit me? I’m already lower than slime,” he might say.

After Lars’s parents passed away, Helga let her baby brother come to live with them. Andrew and Buck were not happy by this turn of events, and Lars is aware, but, much like barnacles slowly weigh down a boat, they do so knowing that this is what they must do in order to survive. Well, not really, because barnacles can’t think. But if they could, they’d sure be a lot like Lars.

Jimmy, on the other hand, loves his uncle. They play video games together, they watch anime together, and over the years, Lars has collected all sorts of neat toys; his room is like a treasure hoard to Jimmy. It’s a palace of wonder. And, to Jimmy, Lars is absolutely wonderful, too. A friend, really. A best friend.

Lars might be lazy, but this means he doesn’t get excited much in battle, allowing him to keep his cool. He slowly regains HP as a defense mechanism, allowing him to take a lot of heat, and his skills revolve around taking hits for the team–because while Lars might not be motivated, he sure is a nice guy.