INTRODUCING NOBODIES FAVOURITE FREAK OF NATURE...

Bill Rose/Wilma Rosenburg (@amaritheartist)

A male impersonator/drag king that is attempting to get all his queer friends to put on a production of the KiY play entirely in drag.

The Scribe (@arthur-lesters-music-stand)

KiY cultist, continues the tradition of writing scripture in the style of the KiY play. Constantly receives visions of what the King is currently doing in order to transcribe it into maddening text. She could ignore the King’s split soul for a while, but once John joined with Arthur, she became inflicted with double visions about what both parts of his soul were up to. Tired, small, and yearning for a calm and normal life though she is, she’s now on a warpath to kill Arthur Lester or return John to the King, whichever is faster, to end the double visions.

Vin Holden (@automaghost)

Connections with Marvin Warrick and Chester Turner.

Malcolm (@autumn-doodles)

A blind painter for the KiY, able to see visions and supernatural occurrences. Classics lecturer by day, sells his painters under the pen name Tiresias at night. Unintentionally a cultist but leans into it.

Callum Larson (née Callie Woodshaw) (@axlethegoblin)

Lived in Addison, but his parents were killed by the mines. Larson would have had Callum killed, too, but decided to adopt him instead for his valuable gift of letting spirits speak through him. Transmasc.

Hilda Jenkins (@azmodeusjay)

A waitress at every cafe and diner in the show, worshipper of Lillith, German immigrant. Obsessed with nightmares.

Kitty Kayne and Owl Lillith (@azmodeusjay)

Father Elijah (@beentobeetle)

Catholic priest, gone up against KiY cultists.

Matvey Peter Gayle (@beentobeetle)

"Mechanic by day and private reporter by night", he trails Arthur Lester, holding him personally responsible for every day body and missing person in the main series. Personal friend of Eddie, the maintenance man. Gets casually involved in supernatural stuff, cults not a big fan of him.

Anatoli Vovkodav (@bitesizedsurprise)

Ukranian Cossack, Miskatonic Researchers destroyed his village and younger siblings in a ritual. He learns occult magic to turn evildoers into hares. He flees to NYC and alters between his main identity and his disguise, a Parisian woman named Amelie.

The Herald (@bluetheanimator)

Presumably announces the coming of the KiY, bothers him just because, "he wants them dead 24/7". Writes fanfic about the King and clocks people on their gaydar. (They/it?) Freaky mouth under mask. Loves Noel/Charlie.

Philip Hurst (@brizgallows)

A cult leader of the Pallid Mask. Warm, homely, and murderous in the name of the KiY!

Frank (@brunch7209)

Bookshop owner with lots of spooky books that attracts many cultists.

Richard Joy and Joy Family (@capesch-arts)

KiY cultist, highly favored for his sculpting. Transman, corgi girl named Dwyn, romance with Malcolm. Entire family is part of the cult, each member given a unique role and generally high status.

Alice "Aden L. Carmen" Lester (@cho-c0)

She was adopted by Arthur's parents as a child, intended to be a ritual sacrifice in their cult to Lillith. She ran away and became a journalist, as well as disturbing a ritual for Shub-Niggurath and getting captured by the KiY. She survives the prison pits, but remains in the Dreamlands for some years. She technically dies while living there, but had earned the favor of Yog-Sothoth, saving her life and giving Alice a direct stream of forbidden knowledge. Later on, she plays a key role in rescuing Charlie, and they escape to the human realm again together as friends. There, she returns to her former role of a journalist, unwittingly feeding Yog-Sothoth more knowledge in return for her life.

Diana Williams (@cinderdrawsart)

Jackson Wright (@cloudofthecats)

Forensic scientist, casual drinking buddies with Arthur who gets called to help him out and is now along for the ride with the supernatural against his will.

Davi Santos (@cloudofthecats)

Brazilian mortician, anti-cults because they create more bodies for him to work on, which is a huge pain.

The Bard (@computer-gummy-worm)

KiY fragment, he/they/it, drives people insane with music, friends with Kayne, avoids the King.

Harvey Samson (@crierofcarcosa)

Oscar's ex-boyfriend from upstate NY. Switchboard operator by day and bad gin bootlegger by night.

The Thief (@croik)

Abell (@cyanorth)

Fragment of Kayne bound to Oscar.

Bennison "Benny" Joseph Wilson (@drearymars)

A detective who, despite being put on the case as a police man to find and arrest Arthur Lester, has instead dived head-first into researching the cult of The King In Yellow. Detective Benny Wilson also has a romance with Frank after insisting on using his spooky books as research into his investigation, and a distinct rivalry towards The King In Yellow (or Richard Joy) specifically.

Carter Jacob Cohen (@drearymars)

A young British Jewish man investigating Benny's mysterious death in WW2.

Lola "Honey" (@drearymars)

A strange bartender (earning her nickname from all the times she’s called people ‘Honey’ after telling them her name is Lola) who teleports across every bar in the world, consistently unaware of the strangeness of her daily schedule and trapped in a vague, dream-like state.

House (@dughckit)

Likely a magician or psychic in life who died performing a trick and ended up in the Waylay.

Chester Turner (@dyonisu)

Connections with Vin Holden and Marvin Warrick.

Nolan (@dyonisu)

The Hierophant (@earlymorningfoxhunt)

A monstrous, patchwork humanoid with a backpack and bells. Wishes to help Jarthur form the Dies Irae and also kiss. Resides in the Dark World, wishes to see a star one day.

Alejandro (@elliot1101)

Therapist who talks to people about their supernatural encounters.

Isabella (née Julia) (@emmaanimatesyt)

Dominican-Republic immigrant to the US, she collects books that appear to have sentience and/or supernatural influence. Isabella runs a bookstore to cover up the Lovecraftian horrors trapped in books she keeps under her protection.

Arna (fishface127, Art Fight)

An avatar of Azathoth and a mother. In the waking world, Arna goes around, collecting information. When she sleeps, she essentially tells Azathoth the world's longest bedtime story. She wants him to get a really good sleep so when he wakes up he can make an earth even better than this one! She's extremely sweet, if a bit forgetful (because 90 percent of her memories get taken by Azathoth), and she just wants to make friends. She loves making mini sandwiches to make people happy. In tragic yuri fashion, she is also dating Delia.

June Williams (née Harper Waite) (@flamdoodles/@flamiart)

She was part of the most influential family in Innsmouth. Her family's most important tradition was passing down a Forgotten One known as the Patriarch, a piece of a god that every few generations jumped bodies. Harper was born a talented magic user and Dreamer, and as such was the next in line to become a vessel. She had... opinions about it. She managed to convince her family to let her attend art college in Rhode Island (with the excuse of refining her Dreamer skills), and got a taste of life in the great wide world. But she was called back as her grandfather (the last vessel) was on his deathbed. Her boyfriend, Lee, covertly followed her back to Innsmouth, and Harper's family killed him. That was the last straw; Harper poisoned her family dinner and set the house on fire, running away and taking on the name of June Williams (Williams because it was Lee's mother's maiden name, June because Lee used to call her "summer day").

Reave (@foxish-draws)

Ashraf Mounib Fawzi (@friskafrikito)

Travel journalist, currently around Mass. and NY to do work, gets snippets of Arthur's stories. Cultural dissonance around Egyptian roots/American assimilation.

Robin (@g0g0at)

Melody Lee Banwell (@ghostly-gen)

Mel is a part time singer at small NYC clubs, but "accidentally" killed an Order of the Fallen Star cultist. Noel speaks to her as a potential informant. Chinese/Irish immigrant, lesbian (femme on stage/butch irl), crossed paths with The Butcher once by killing his target and making it out alive.

Clover/Herbert/Cultist #7 (@ginger-rat)

Unsuccessful painter, becomes obsessed with painting the KiY.

Adam Fry, Leo Fry, Kit, and Grace (@grayscale-sparks)

Egypt Crew: Gideon, Florence, Gabriel, Sebastian, and Wolf (@grayscale-sparks)

NY Crew: Captain Barrett, Detective Jay Verne, Donna, Charlie Hayes, Gideon Hayes, Micah (@grayscale-sparks)

Francis (@hollowcat)

A book collector who accidentally gets involved in far too much supernatural stuff than he ever intended to.

Glenn Lesatz (@hollowcat)

KiY cultist, transmasc he/they, painter and bartender.

Griffin Poe (@honkatraband01)

Amis (@i-am-very-confuse)

Cricket and Ant/Erro (@icarus-is-obssesed)

Originally Erro Simuli, a four-armed and four-eyed god of travel, often a companion of the KiY. After eons of dueling with opposing personalities, they split into two beings. They call themselves Cricket, the bold, feral, and clingy half (who can be human, but often prefers to shapeshift into a tuxedo cat), and Ant, the quieter, reserved, and self-sacrificing half. Together, they travel the realms as friends, occasionally joining with others.

The Dancer (@icarus-is-obssesed)

A bird-like humanoid, KiY cultist.

Hattie and Maddie King (@insanity-in-the-stars)

Hattie and Maddie are mother and son. Maddie is a demi-god, son of the King in Yellow. In current canon (1937) he is 5 years old and calls anyone he respects Uncle or Auntie. Right now, he only has Joy as an Uncle. Hattie is the Head Seamstress of the Artists (Joy's cult). She was born into the Order of the Fallen Star but changed cults due to her abusive husband, who she ended up killing. Her wish was to have her unborn son, Maddie, be disconnected from her ex-husband, unintentionally causing him to be a demigod by the King's favor.

Miku and Somara (@insanity-in-the-stars)

A blind human with the ability to see souls as different coloured flames. She got trapped in a time loop as collateral of Somara's desperate attempt to save his own life. Somara is a Nyarlthotep variant with time related powers.

Thomas (@introverted-weirdo360)

Him/her, a cop assigned to the "Arthur Lester" case trying to comprehend the supernatural around him.

Lawrence Hand (@jinks050)

Happy stepfather to Maddie and married to Hattie King. An imperfect but blessed worshipper of Shub-Niggurath and unwitting follow of Yog-Sothoth.

Finch (@juno-tism)

S2 Separation!John Doe (@kingundone)

In this AU, Arthur Lester died as a result of the King separating the pair, and John was cast into the Dark World. He now resides in the Waylay as an animalistic (cat/bird) humanoid, and spends much of his time in "grieving/hopeless mode". This blog is for roleplaying with the character directly, primarily via anon asks.

Edward (@kissesofdeath)

Olivin Ashgrove (@kronoose)

Mila Chapman/Ludmila Koval (@larsons-ahegao-face)

Samantha-"Roque" Marasigan (@lihim-oa)

Orphaned Filipino Spaniard that defends their church and gets involved in the supernatural when tasked with handling Noel after Kayne dropped him off there.

Alex (@literally-prince-olympus)

Arachne (@lordofthesoups/@arthur-lesters-spinal-cord)

Lillith contract for spider form, spymaster. He/she transwoman. Kinda like the Witch and Larson combines as an antagonist. Gay and religious about Lillith.

Rufus Stone (@lordofthesoups/arthur-lesters-spinal-cord)

A painter and astronomer gifted vision of the iron age hyperboria by Yhoundeh (wife of Nyarlathotep). Autistic but forced to join a cult due to his visions.

The Reporter (@lotusveeter)

Eldritch entity aware of the fourth wall and snaps pictures around the canon (esp. of Richard Joy).

Delia (@madbadash)

Delia is a former KiY cultist, having begun worshipping because her husband ran a cult. After a couple of years they fell out of love, and her husband thought that trapping Hastur and attempting to control him was a good idea. It wasn't. Hastur has an avatar known as The Ravening One who assassinates those who try to harm the King. He absolutely decimates the entire cult until Delia is the last one standing. She begs for mercy, saying that she'll worship him even more than she worshipped Hastur. The Ravening One agrees to Delia's terms. Now she does his bidding, which is mostly killing cultists who get to big an ego, but as a god of rage he may sometimes have her kill just for the sake of it. She kills people in the style of Saw traps. Kidnaps you, sticks you in a deadly trap, gives you a time limit to make it out alive. Also, dating Arna as part of a tragic yuri dynamic.

Caryl "Harley" O'Leary (@magnificentbastardanon)

Catholic and queer (fun combo), scarred, and an alcoholic; favored by Yog-Sothoth and gifted the ability to have visions of related memories or future events related to an object he touches.

Marvin Warrick (@masonhasbean)

Connections with Vin Holden and Chester Turner.

The Playwright (@mewy101)

Marlene Schneider (@mothy-graves)

Married to creator's fiancé's oc, Osiris, and is Scottish. Was going to be sacrificed by her parents in the Order of the Fallen Star but gets sent to another universe instead. Gets the attention of Kayne, eventually puts her in the Dreamlands to tail Arthur. Gets revenge by murdering her own parents in every universe she can.

Seth (@mudwingprince)

Leota Allende (@nukanom1con)

Chilean immigrant with a gift to communicate with the beyond and knack for collecting artifacts and relics. Runs a parlor as a medium and pawn shop owner. Worships Nyarlathotep.

Blanche-Aludra Bourreau and Tessie (@nukuome)

French impressionist painter, partnered with her muse, Tessie. One day, Tessie reads the KiY play, and Blanche follows shortly after, both sent into shock by the contents. Not cultists, but are slowly going insane and spreading madness for the King ever since.

Vinusto Hendricks (@oh-dear-my)

Fool (@oliver-jonathan)

Alice (@pepis-room)

Raised in the KiY cult until the death of their mother, has religious trauma, attached to kind adults (including Arthur).

Charlotte Yu and Evelyn Xiao (@pikachic)

Family friend of the Yang's, Evelyn is passionate yet stoic, packs a punch in a small physique, and wanted to be an artist as a child, but gets roped into the supernatural due to her sixth sense. Charlotte is a KiY cultist who is also a theatre and film actress. She can play any role and wears masks, and can compel others to act how she wants.

Cynthia Dale and Jamie Hasenkamp (@potato-lord-but-not)

Cynthia is a social church organist, and Jamie is a shy young priest at the same church as Fathers Abe, Seymour, and Oscar. They yearn to be together, but are kept apart by the prejudice against their interracial relationship. Influenced by Oscar, green to the supernatural things they may encounter.

Father Abraham and Father Seymour (@potato-lord-but-not)

Pair of gay priests that influence Oscar in his young adult life and fight the cultists of the KiY. Abe is more risk taking and openly genial, Seymour is more reserved and connects better with Oscar.

William Wright (@prophetic-ear-worms)

A painter, dollmaker, and KiY cultist. He read the KiY play very slowly, so the madness didn't take hold as quickly or strongly as the King would have preferred. He leans into making art for the King, mostly as a hobby. True cultists see this as blasphemous and kill him, but Kayne brings him back to create dolls to manipulate Jarthur with.

Anita (@psychoticchaoticstudios)

She is a god created by the KiY, but he weakened and confined her to a human form. He sent her to the Cult of the Pallid Mask to act as a messiah, either until he had use for her later or her abilities became a problem. She then was taken from the cult by an ex-member when she was still a young child for reasons he still hasn't explained, but he says he didn't intend to get stuck with her. She didn't have a loving family for the most part, except her the ex-cult member's partner, who was the closest thing she had to a healthy father figure up until meeting Arthur. Anita ran away from home when she was 14, and Arthur and Parker were hired to find her days before the events of the first episode. Just before getting in the truck with Kellin, Arthur and John found Anita. After discovering her situation, as well as finding out she could hear John, they decided to stick together and developed a sort of found family relationship through out the series (like Joel and Ellie in TLOU).

Honour Le Rue (@reprise67)

Floyd (@riskierdaisy, Instagram)

Clarence (@rosymaplemothsss)

Read the KiY play and went insane.

Iris (@rosymaplemothsss)

19 year old painter, sleep deprived because of dreams about The Horrors, died by Kayne's hands and was sent to the Waylay.

"Shunned Malevolent OC" (@ryexry)

Rue (@sleeepyyysaturn)

James Anderson (@sorliart/@sorlian)

Former doctor who lost his wife to tuberculosis, now worships Kayne and is involved in cults.

Unnamed Cultist OC (@spacetimeaccordianfolder)

Rosanna Linh (@spaceydeer)

A Vietnamese British immigrant to the US; instead of working at her parents' vintage/antique store, they now run their own clothes & antique shop... which is sort of a front for dealing in sacred/cursed objects. They accept many things as payment for their more sought after items, but don't try any scams or they'll put a curse on you.

Entropy Kayne (@spookyhetero)

Caraline Linetta/The Speaker (@strelitzia-mystery1097)

Runs her late grandfather's doll shop, is selectively mute, talks through dolls and notepads, and becomes the mouthpiece of the KiY after making a doll of him by accident.

Carmichael, Ava, and Paisley (@tea-and-formaldehyde)

Sunday Lester (@the-oc-king)

Karolina Angelova, Andy, and Joey (@treehuman)

Murder-happy KiY cultists. Karolina is a dancer.

Dovie, Lawerence, Leveon, Ira, and Marion (@tuxmaxie27)

Dovie and Lawerence are siblings initially from Texas, before moving to Arkham. Lawerence ended up in a cave in while coal mining as a child and it screwed up his leg, but The Manager made sure he survived and gifted him the ability to see the supernatural (although he doesn't realize that and just thinks that his eyes are bad due to working in mines as a kid, then around fire as an adult.)

Dovie can also sense the supernatural also via The Manager (no set reason why or time when it started yet, TBD) and is currently investigating her husband's disappearance after he got too close to finding a KiY cult (kept secret from her until she finds some of his work). 28 and 24, respectively.

Leveon is a security guard for a magic antique shop (which fronts as a normal one) and is a first-generation American to French parents. He used to be the guard for J.D. Ackerman, but left. When 2 years later it gets broken into (as in canon), they somehow blame him for letting it happen. He's 45 years old.

Ira and Marion are for an AU cult of Nyogtha another person has made and they have both been gifted by it. Ira can scry in gore for world events and such, as well as interpreting symbols/supernatural pattern recognition. Technically 28 years old, but physically 70.

Marion is gifted the ability to have a grasp on most major languages' main dialects, lost his stutter, and gained very good convincing/charming abilities, as well as the ability to open portals and reach through mirrors to communicate with other branches of the cult. Techincally 32 years old, but physically 74.

Ghost Kayne (@unfortunategenderfluxmushroom)

Moira (@yellows-secret-blog)

Rogue priestess of Yog-Sothoth, escaped her cult but still favored and can cause psychic damage. She can see the future and people's trauma by making physical contact, so she's heavily covered in clothes to avoid that.

Alden Bass (@yepmadness)

A southerner informant who is mostly focused on the publishing/journalism side of his work, and deals in swapping information, but does manage cultists from every path to do his job.

Ulysses (@zenstarling)

The Drifter (@zenstarling)