Karin is one of the four friends that arrive at The Cabin at the beginning of the game. She is the last character to die (on day 16) after The Protagonist locks her in the basement and kills her in the boss battle (except for one ending in which she becomes Protagonist's companion). Karin is a tall, 27-year-old woman. She has long, red hair kept in a braid, and green eyes. Karin wears a long white dress, with two yellow stripes at the bottom. She also has a long, yellow, double necklace. Karin is the most stubborn, and grumpy of the group. She often complains and doesn't hesitate to point out every mistake The Protagonist makes. Despite this, she is also very smart, noticing that Anatoly doesn't actually know how to read. Karin is also noted to be quite tough. After The Protagonist serves meat for the first time, she is very fast to develop an obsession with it. She then doesn't hesitate to force Anatoly to leave the cabin or even to chop off Gregor's limbs just to eat more of the meat. From her profile: "Karin will chew you up and spit you out. If Gregor thinks the glass is always half full, Karin thinks the glass isn't full enough, needs to be cleaned better and could probably use something stronger than water. She's one tough cookie, & a difficult walnut to crack. Maybe you can marinate that away?" According to various quotes in-game from the cast, Karin and the rest of the bunch came to the cabin from Ukraine. "Bread and jam aren't much of a meal, but it's more than we had when we left Ukraine." Mouse story: Karin almost died when she was six. It was probably the coldest winter on record. She and her parents were snowed in. At first, they had enough wood, but it ran out. Before her father's wedding day he chopped down one of the biggest trees in the forest. He spent months whittling it down, cutting the pieces carefully, measuring the armrests so they fit perfectly, sanding it down so not even a splinter could come out. He named it 'Mother's Chair' and every Saturday he washed his wife's feet while she sat in it. Whistling a tune his grandmother taught him, looking deep into her eyes as he rubbed her ankles. It took him weeks of working on it in secret. He was hyperventilating while he dismantled it, each heavy breath was a foggy cloud, his tears were freezing to his cheeks. The fire only lasted two days. And later the frostbite turned his fingertips completely black, he cried almost as hard over his fingers as he did the chair. After a while, when the food was running out, he began to search every inch of their cabin, but he finally found what he was looking for, a little mouse. Holding it wiggling in his hands must have been painful, between wincing, he divided it in two, one piece for little Karin and one for her mother. His corpse was the first thing Karin ever saw that was frozen solid. Karin, Mariah, Gregor and Anatoly's village went mad from starvation after the rationing got extreme. Parents were sending their children to orphanages instead of letting them starve at home. It was terrible. Eventually they decided that they needed to escape. So, they stole supplies until they had enough for the journey. To keep their spirits up, Gregor described it as a 'vacation'. "You don't normally face death during a vacation though..." Mariah is one of the four friends that arrive at The Cabin at the beginning of the game. A vegan lover of animals with kind heart. She is the first character to die (on day 5), after being sent out by the group to search for food during the flood. Mariah is a short 20-year-old woman. She has short, brown hair and blue eyes, and wears a black blouse under an orange dress. Mariah also has a necklace with a blue pendant. Her chibi sprite shows that she wears black shoes. Mariah is the kindest and most energetic of the group. Her can-do attitude is the glue that holds the group together. She's always willing to learn new things. From her profile: "energetic and always willing to learn, Mariah's can-do attitude is the glue that holds the group together. A lover of animals, her kind heart advocates for leaving them alone." Residence origin: According to various quotes in-game from the cast, Mariah and the rest of the bunch came to the cabin from Ukraine. "Bread and jam aren't much of a meal, but it's more than we had when we left Ukraine." Father story: Mariah's father was a farmer. He was extremely bright but very stubborn. After he was taken, they struggled like other families, but people kept calling him a traitor even after he was gone. Escaping Ukraine: Mariah, Karin, Gregor and Anatoly's village went mad from starvation after the rationing got extreme. Parents were sending their children to orphanages instead of starving at home. It was terrible. Eventually they decided that they needed to escape. So, they stole supplies until they had enough for the journey. To keep their spirits up, Gregor described it as a 'vacation'. "You don't normally face death during a vacation though..." Gregor is one of the four friends that arrive at The Cabin at the beginning of the game. A large man with a heart of gold. Always the optimist, Gregor likes splitting firewood, eating things in one gulp and helping out his friends. Surprisingly, he's deathly afraid of marmots. He is the third character to die, in his case of blood loss, after either The Protagonist or Karin cut off three of his limbs. Physical Appearance Gregor is a giant and buff, 33 year-old man. He has brown eyes, short brown hair and a beard, and strong cheekbones. Gregor wears black trousers, white shirt with a collar and a green vest on top of it. Personality Gregor, despite his tough appearance, has a heart of gold. He is always willing to help his friends and cheer them up during hard moments. Gregor enjoys splitting firewood, knitting during quiet moments and eating large amounts of food. Apparently as a kid, he'd go back not just for second helpings of dinner but third and fourths as well. He is confirmed to have feelings for Anatoly[1], expressing regret for not telling him about them before Anatoly left the cabin. From his profile: "Always the optimist, Gregor likes splitting firewood, eating things in one gulp, and helping his friends. Gregor's a rare guy with a heart of gold... will you take it from him?" Residence origin: According to various quotes in-game from the cast, Gregor and the rest of the bunch came to the cabin from Ukraine. "Bread and jam isn't much of a meal, but it's more than we had when we left Ukraine." Meeting Anatoly: When they were kids, Gregor was chopping firewood outside the house, when Anatoly showed up with a butterfly net, filled with them. He introduced himself to Gregor and asked him if he wanted to hold one of the butterflies. Gregor had never held one before. Anatoly told him not to crush it between his 'large paws'. Gregor observed that Anatoly did have a miniature hands himself so he understood where that warning came from. Marmot story: When Gregor was nine, he and his friend were playing in the woods. They were far from home, about an hour away. His friend found some baby marmots, probably only a few weeks old. He was so busy playing with them he didn't notice a boar mother and piglet behind him. The boar thought he was too close to it's child so it ended up goring him in the lung with one of her tusks. He was gasping for air as his lungs filled with blood and there was nothing Gregor could do to stop the bleeding. It took him an entire day to carry the body back to his friends house. He was so weak, he had to take breaks every few minutes. When he arrived at his friends house, it was completely pitch black. His hands shook as he laid his friend's body at the door, He was almost as cold as his friend. When his friends mother finally opened the door. Gregor will never forget that scream as long as he lives. He never wanted to let anyone down with his weakness ever again. So he pushed himself to the breaking point as a teenager, getting stronger every week. Escaping Ukraine: Gregor, Karin, Mariah, and Anatoly's village went mad from starvation after the rationing got extreme. Parents were sending their children to orphanages instead of letting them starve at home. It was terrible. Eventually they decided that they needed to escape. So they stole supplies until they had enough for the journey. To keep their spirits up, Gregor described it as a 'vacation'. "You don't normally face death during a vacation though..." Anatoly is one of the four friends that arrive at The Cabin at the beginning of the game. Anatoly is skilled in herbology as well as a strong swimmer. He's rumored to be a wordly scholar, though that is proven to be false. He only pretends to read books, and he never learned a basic addition or subtraction. He looks up to Mariah. He is the second character to die, after being sent out to look for Mariah and more supplies. Physical Appearance Anatoly is an medium-sized, 25 year-old man. He has short, black hair and black eyes. Anatoly wears a blue button-up shirt. He also has black trousers with brown belt and round glasses. He is accompanied by a brown squirrel sitting on his shoulder until it disappears after the group eats meat for the first time. Personality Anatoly seems competent and certainly looks the part. This is somewhat subverted by the fact that he can’t read or do simple math, although he still knows things about foraging and is emotionally intelligent. From his profile: "Anatoly is rumored to be a worldly scholar, but that's bogus: he only pretends to read books. He never learned simple addition or subtraction, which is probably why he looks up to Mariah so much. Will you let Mariah have a taste? Or gobble him all up for yourself?" Residence origin: According to various in-game quotes from the cast, Anatoly and the rest of the bunch came to the cabin from Ukraine. "Bread and jam isn't much of a meal, but it's more than we had when we left Ukraine." Meeting Gregor: When they were kids, Gregor was chopping firewood outside the house, Anatoly showed up with a butterfly net, filled with them. He introduced himself and asked Gregor if he wanted to hold one of the butterflies. Gregor had never held one before, so Anatoly told him not to crush it between his 'large paws'. Dog story: When Anatoly was young his father had a dog. The dog was very special to him. It helped him find food during the war. When he came back injured, he brought the dog to meet his wife who was pregnant with Anatoly. He truly loved that dog and buried it in the forest near their house when it died. When Anatoly was six his father asked him to put flowers on a grave of their dog. He carried a vase filled with flowers with him into the forest and took a left when he should have gone right. He was lost for one full day. Wandering through forest, crying and panicking. He foolishly skipped breakfast that day, so he was desperate at this point. He tried to find plants to eat, but he couldn't recognize any that are edible. So he ate some random plant he found in the woods, but he puked it all up. He was humiliated when he stumbled back to his house. He'll never forget his father running up, worried, and he was still holding the vase with flowers in it, his entire shirt stained with vomit. After that experience he studied obsessively his mother's collection of foraging books, so he would never starve in the wilderness again. Escaping Ukraine: Anatoly, Mariah, Gregor and Karin's village went mad from starvation after the rationing got extreme. Parents were sending their children to orphanages instead of letting them starve at home. It was terrible. Eventually they decided that they needed to escape. So they stole supplies until they had enough for the journey. To keep their spirits up, Gregor described it as a 'vacation'. "You don't normally face death during a vacation though..."