Petri, Cotard and Gogo

Height: 192 cm (6'3") Hair: Red Eyes: Dark green Body type: Muscular Cotard wears a navy blue Adidas windbreaker jacket with a hood, camouflage cargo pants, and worn Converse sneakers. He wears a classic three-hole dark olive-green balaclava that conceals his dull, menacing gaze.

Afterlife Petri's soul was originally destined for Hell, but a bureaucratic error merged his file with that of an unrelated Argentinian carpenter. This administrative mix-up resulted in his being assigned to the Pripyat Purgatory. His presence immediately caused chaos in several rehabilitation units, forcing staff to keep him under constant surveillance. Today, he shares a two-room apartment with Cotard and GoGo, converted into a recording studio where he lives, sings, and occasionally clogs the toilet.

In Pripyat, Petri remains as odious, chaotic, and attention-seeking as he was in life. His antics, including blaring music, tasteless jokes, and petty intimidation, keep the other residents annoyed and suspicious, but unable to remove him from the system. Petri embodies the delirious gangster energy he cultivated in life, unrepentant and untouchable, even after death.

Trivia

Petri's body is covered in crude, prison-style "clown" tattoos, a symbol for a "cop killer" in Brazil.

Despite his hypermasculine attitude, Petri's behavior suggests a deep sexual confusion.

He is a big fan of the Fluminense football club.

She has never shown her eyes Due to his smoking habit, Petri has a full set of yellow and rotten teeth.

Besides Death Metal, his other passion is old school gangsta rap.

Height: 1.76 cm (5'9") Hair: Dark Eyes: Dark Constitution: Overweight Petri dresses like a low-budget terrorist: he wears a dark puffer jacket from the brand Inflated, a black hoodie with gray stripes, navy blue Adidas-style sweatpants, and generic dark sneakers. He also wears a green balaclava with two holes and aviator sunglasses with red lenses.

Background Born in the heart of Rio de Janeiro's most troubled favelas, João Daniel's childhood was marked by poverty and neglect. His mother died when he was four, his father was unknown, and he was raised by indifferent relatives. By the age of thirteen, he was handling firearms and collecting small drug debts with shocking, though largely ineffective, brutality.

He called himself a feared "street soldier" of the Comando Vermelho, but was generally tolerated. To expand his influence, he recruited a small group of nine-year-old thugs who sold drugs and carried out intimidation schemes under his orders. Petri constantly exaggerated his exploits, quoting gangster clichés and portraying himself as a ruthless thug, though those who knew him saw only a loud, delusional child playing with danger.

Death Petri died in a humiliating and almost comical accident. While transporting goods across the state line, a poorly wrapped package of cocaine he had concealed inside his belongings tore open in a truck stop bathroom. Reportedly, the paramedics laughed at the scene, and his death became the subject of widespread ridicule in local circles.

Height: 1.65 cm (5'5") Hair: Bright orange Eyes: Dark Construction: Thin Gogo wears an oversized hoodie with the "NEVADA" print, a short black pleated skirt over shiny tights (a garish combination that merges femininity with edgy practicality) and worn gray sneakers.

He wears a balaclava with a single hole that reveals his bangs, covering most of his face; his nose sticks out of the balaclava.

Afterlife Initially sentenced to eternal damnation, GoGo's case was reclassified following a review by the Bureau of Neurological Trauma of the Afterlife, which concluded that her crimes were committed under total indoctrination and with an altered will. Due to severe dissociative conditioning, she was reassigned to Pripyat Purgatory—the same area as Cotard and Petri—under maximum security. Although still considered dangerous, her behavioral reports remain among the most alarming on record. She is prohibited from handling sharp objects, electrical wires, or mirrors. Staff have observed several incidents in which she has been found standing silently in restricted areas for hours.

GoGo shares a two-bedroom apartment with Cotard and Petri, where she sleeps on the bare floor next to her drum kit. Her only possessions are her drumsticks, a cell phone, and noise-canceling headphones. She doesn't decorate, eat communally, or speak. Despite her condition, she remains the drummer for A Child Corpse In A TrashBag, and her precision has earned her the nickname "Typewriter." In addition to drumming, she dedicates time to painting grotesque and nightmarish works: portraits, landscapes, and abstract pieces depicting deformities, decay, and macabre scenes. Her paintings are highly detailed yet terrifying, reflecting the same mechanical and detached mindset that defines her movements and interactions. During performances or painting sessions, she acts cold and distant, as if channeling every fragment of her fragmented consciousness into art and sound.

Trivia

He is prohibited from approaching within 100 meters of any child.

She waxes her eyebrows every week.

Background Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in the late 1970s, Hikari Okubo was a quiet, intelligent, and reserved child who, from a young age, displayed a fascination with ritual, death, and purity. She grew up in a middle-class home with a cult, amidst Japan's economic crisis and spiritual disillusionment. At age 14, she was recruited by Aum Shinrikyo, an apocalyptic cult led by Shoko Asahara, whose teachings blended Buddhism, the Hindu myth of the apocalypse, and nuclear prophecy. Okubo quickly became one of Asahara's most devoted followers, revered internally for her absolute submission and complete silence during rituals.

Her case remains officially classified, but leaked court documents confirm her involvement in the logistics and storage of the chemicals. Evidence suggests she may have personally released the gas, killing eight people and injuring more than 500. During her trial, she refused legal representation, remained silent throughout, and was impassive during the sentencing. Observers noted that her pulse barely fluctuated during the proceedings. Psychiatrists described her as "neurologically present, but spiritually absent."

Death In 2006, Hikari Okubo was hanged at the Tokyo Penitentiary. As expected, she remained completely silent throughout the entire process. Witnesses reported that she didn't utter a last word or even blink during the final inspection. When the executioner opened the trapdoor

Personality Mute Cold Apathetic Sociopath Poker face Cynical GoGo's personality, if it can be called that, is pure negation. She is mute by choice, her face an impenetrable mask of apathy. Those around her describe her as "a moving absence." Her movements are slow, deliberate, almost robotic. She displays no known range of emotions—no joy, no sadness, no fear—and rarely acknowledges others unless provoked by direct contact. Despite this, she is not passive; her silence feels predatory, like that of an animal stalking its prey.

Psychological evaluations in Purgatory describe her as "coldly self-aware, but lacking in empathy." Her only consistent behavior consists of repetitive percussion patterns, rhythmic tapping on surfaces, or cutting objects into symmetrical shapes. When others speak to her, she maintains unbroken eye contact until they fall silent. The longer she stares, the more uncomfortable the atmosphere becomes. Even her bandmates, Cotard and Petri, admit that she unsettles them, though they also trust her discipline and musical precision. GoGo's silence is not absence. It is control.

Afterlife After narrowly escaping to Hell, Cotard's file sparked bureaucratic confusion among the angels: was he a murderer or a political revolutionary? The ensuing debate over his "ideological background" resulted in his reassignment to Pripyat, a section for radical thinkers, failed prophets, and self-proclaimed revolutionaries. There, Cotard became a resident of Pripyat's decaying residential neighborhood, sharing a converted apartment studio with his neighbors Petri and Gogo. Together, they formed A Child Corpse In A TrashBag, a band whose chaotic, industrial sound evokes the ruins of their past lives.

Cotard rarely leaves his balcony; he's often seen smoking, writing lyrics, or tuning his guitar to the sound of broken transformers. His interactions are limited to philosophical debates, cigarette swaps, and the occasional bar fight when someone makes fun of Ireland. He inspires both respect and pity: a ghost who can't stop thinking, trapped in a purgatory that mirrors his own burned-out ideals. Even here, surrounded by the dead, Matty McVeigh still burns, but now, only within himself.

Trivia

The nickname "Cotard" comes from Cotard's syndrome, a rare mental illness in which people believe they are already dead.

The nylon jacket he's wearing is a vintage Adidas windbreaker, suggesting it dates back to the 1990s.

He is fascinated by the works of Nietzsche and Mark Twain.

Cotard is a devout Catholic and refuses to write songs that are blasphemous. He is extremely Anglophobic and refuses to socialize with any British residents.

Background Born in Derry, Ireland, into a devout Catholic family during the turbulent years of the Northern Irish conflict, Matty McVeigh grew up surrounded by political violence. His father worked in a textile factory; his mother, a schoolteacher, tried to steer him toward literature. By his teens, Matty had become disillusioned with both religion and the British state, developing a fascination with rebellion, martyrdom, and revolutionary ethics. His academic brilliance was overshadowed by an obsession with violent political symbolism, particularly fire, decay, and resurrection.

At 17, he joined the Provisional, quickly rising from messenger to manufacturer. Between 1992 and 1995, he participated in several high-profile attacks, including the Bishopsgate bombing and the attack on the Warrington gasworks. Although never formally charged, his fingerprints were rumored to have been found on artifacts in Belfast. His intelligence made him valuable, but also dangerous. Internal reports from the time describe him as "uncontrollable." When ceasefires began, Cotard refused to lay down his arms, viewing peace as treason. He fled to the Republic of Ireland, where his final act of defiance ended in tragedy.

Death In 1996, during clandestine training near Galway, Cotard attempted to demonstrate a new prototype explosive with a faulty timer. Before the eyes of the recruits, the device detonated prematurely, setting the farmhouse ablaze. His body was later identified thanks to dental remains and fragments of his distinctive crucifix. He publicly denied his involvement, calling him a "renegade," while privately mourning the loss of one of his brightest—and most unstable—minds.

Cotard is an Irish resident of Pripyattory.

Matty McVeigh, known as “Cotard” in Pripyat, was an Irish militant turned musician, born in Derry during the height of the Northern Ireland conflict. A disillusioned product of Northern Ireland’s sectarian violence, Cotard’s youth was marked by conflict, alienation, and an obsession with death. In life, he was a Provisional IRA bomb maker, ideologue, and self-taught historian whose belief in martyrdom eclipsed all empathy. In Purgatory, he reinvents himself as the guitarist for “A Child Corpse In A TrashBag,” a grim industrial noise project that reflects his pessimistic worldview. Cotard’s sharp intelligence and biting wit make him a respected and feared figure among the residents.

Personality Intelligence Incendiary Sociopath Tense Political extremist Lonely Cotard embodies a peculiar blend of stoicism and volatile intensity. A sociopath with a penchant for irony, he finds beauty in self-destruction and considers morality a human invention. His discourse is eloquent yet biting, its tone oscillating between the poetic and the venomous. He delights in intellectually provoking others, often quoting philosophers, war poets, or revolutionary manifestos with disconcerting precision. When he does become enraged—which is rare, but explosive—he channels his anger into long, calculated diatribes rather than impulsive violence.

He is also deeply cynical and despises human empathy as a mere bourgeois pose. Yet, despite his misanthropy, Cotard possesses a paradoxical discipline: he is punctual, obsessive about his routines, and deeply devoted to his music. His bandmates describe him as "the bossy one," a man who doesn't need to shout to be heard, because when he speaks, everyone listens. Cotard's only constant vice is his fascination with fire.