Simon and Nikolas

The Nightmare World: The dark, fog-filled streets of Stockholm, with their dismembered bodies and deformed monsters, are a projection of his mind. The monsters symbolize his fears, insecurities, and traumas. "Simon's Book": The adventure you play is the book his psychiatrist, Dr. Purnell, instructed him to write to cope with his trauma. The book transforms reality: the city becomes a bloody labyrinth, and his acquaintances turn into distorted figures. Dependence and Addiction: During the game, Simon injects himself with morphine to regain his health. This reflects the abuse of drugs and psychiatric medications he used to numb his physical and mental pain. Distorted Characters: His doctor (Dr. Purnell) is seen as both a helpful and hostile figure, while his love interest, Sophie, represents his yearning for connection and his aversion to loneliness. The game has multiple endings that change the nature of the hallucination. In the true ending, Simon's mind completely breaks down: believing he is fighting his "nightmare self" in his wheelchair, he is actually shooting and murdering two police officers who were simply passing by in his own apartment.
Henriksson is an extreme manifestation of his psychosis, deep depression, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), caused by a car accident that left him paralyzed for life.

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Biographical information
Birthdate
September 7, 1989
place of birth
Czech Republic
Physical description
Alias
Nicky (pyromania)
Relatives
Anonymous Father
Anonymous Mother

Occupation
Working in a job with no name
Pyromaniac is a horror game created by Dominik Braun and developed by TayoDEV. An indie game where we play as Nikolas Rendl, a 20-year-old who mysteriously wakes up in an abandoned city—or so he thought.

Nikolas Rendl is the protagonist of Pyromaniac.

Science
Nikolas was born on September 7, 1989, and has experienced symptoms of pyromania since his teens. He managed to control his impulses by playing with matches and lighters.

His family life was troubled; his father was loving, but he didn't realize the seriousness of Nikolas's pyromania, believing that he would overcome it.

His mother, on the other hand, was quite negligent, deceiving Nikolas' father and failing to recognize the difficulties her son was going through.

Soon, matches and candles were no longer enough for him, so he found an abandoned bunker in a forest, which he used as a refuge to continue playing with fire. That is, until an adult discovered him and threatened to call the police, which caused Nikolas to flee and the bunker to be reinforced.

Nikolas reached a critical point after his father learned that he had lung cancer, and his mother immediately abandoned him afterwards.

Determined to satisfy his thirst for fire one last time, he set fire to his apartment building.

The fire did not kill him, but plunged him into a coma, at which point the events of Pyromaniac take place.

After completing mission A, Nikolas leaves the hospital to visit the grave of the firefighter who saved his life and allows himself to be arrested outside the burning building. He ends up in prison, not a psychiatric hospital.

Gender
Male
Height
175 cm
Trivia
Nikolas' favorite music genre is rock/metal.
Her favorite food is instant noodles and her favorite dessert is Pribináček.
It is canonically asexual.
Nikolas is not related to the firefighter; he is not his father, but the firefighter who saved him from the burning building.
His lighter originally belonged to his father.
She likes animals, but she's never had pets because her mother was very strict. Her favorite animal is the dog.
Nikolas smokes; the habit began after his father's death. He dislikes it because it was the cause of his father's cancer.
His only diagnosis is impulse control pyromania; he does not suffer from any other mental illness.
She has a small mole under her eye.
His hobbies include taking walks in the forest and playing video games.
If Nikolas were to get piercings, he would get them in his cheeks.
In the demo, his hoodie had a different design, which was later changed to the current "Vitality" hoodie due to copyright issues.

Pyromania is a secondary character and the final boss of Pyromaniac.

Science
Pyromania is the personification of Nikolas's pyromania; it represents the bad things he has done and his trauma.

During the events of Pyromaniac, Nikolas, in a coma, becomes separated from his pyromania, which then manifests as its own entity. It forces him to relive everything that happened so that he can finally understand what occurred and accept Pyromania again.

Trivia
In the car scene, the person in the other car was Pyromania.
The blood around Pyromania's mouth is simply a design choice.

Simon Henriksson, or simply known as Simon, is the protagonist of Scream of Fear.

His voice is provided by Stig "DragonNOR" Sydtangen, who also voiced the main character in the Grey horror mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two, in addition to participating in other projects. For more information, visit his website.
Gender
Male
Age
19 (Book) [ 1 ]
29 (Sick) [ 2 ]
About
State
Alive (Final 4, Co-op and Doctor's Story)
Deceased (Finals 1-3)
Health
100 (Player's HP)
Affiliates
Mother (Mentioned, unknown)
Father (unknown)
Sophie (Friend or girlfriend, that's the deciding factor)
Dr. Purnell (Counselor, decisive)

Overview
Simon Henriksson is the protagonist of Cry of Fear, a 19-year-old who lives with his mother. The cinematic scenes show him living alone in a separate apartment, with little mention of his father or other relatives. Simon's personal life remains largely shrouded in mystery, as his doctor notes that he refuses to discuss matters related to his studies or family life.

Simon is characterized by his mental health problems, particularly depression and anxiety.

Despite his difficulties, Simon has an interest in art and photography, which may serve as an outlet for his emotions. He also enjoys listening to DSBM, despite the band patches on his backpack, which are confirmed not to reflect his actual musical tastes. Some of the bands he is known to listen to include Apati, Lifelover, Trist, and Forgotten Tomb.

Simon is heterosexual, and his only friend seems to be Sophie, for whom he harbors unrequited feelings. Their relationship is complicated, as Sophie sees Simon as a close friend but doesn't share his deepest feelings, which contributes to his sense of isolation and despair.

Background
Simon's life before the events of Cry of Fear is hinted at through dialogue and flashbacks. Simon grew up in his hometown of Kirkville with his mother. However, nothing is mentioned about his father, and it's unknown if Simon ever met him. In his first line, Simon states that he has felt lonely his entire life, indicating that he felt he didn't have many friends and that he lived alone most of the time, with his mother being his only companion. It's implied that Simon's mother is overprotective, as evidenced by the text messages she sends him throughout the game, which likely means that Simon didn't socialize much in his youth.

Throughout his life, Dr. Purnell states that Simon has long struggled with mental health issues, specifically anxiety and depression, which Simon attributes to his loneliness (in Simon's words in the IRL trailer, he states, "Anxiety and depression control my life every day" [3]). Simon occasionally took a train to Stockholm and went for solitary walks around the city, most likely to help distract himself from his loneliness. Simon is shown to be an occasional smoker, as evidenced by the ashtray on his table in his apartment and the cigarette Easter egg, which could reflect the stress he experiences. The appearance of Simon's backpack suggests he is a fan of heavy metal music, and the logo on the back of his hoodie indicates he has either attended concerts or it is simply an insignificant detail.

When Simon started university, he met a girl named Sophie, whom he quickly grew fond of. He became very close to Sophie after helping her through her struggles, even saying he was the only guy at university who supported her during difficult times, making her life "more bearable." Over time, Simon grew so attached to Sophie that he concluded he loved her and finally mustered the courage to confess his feelings, but she rejected him. Even after Simon insisted he loved her, she distanced herself, saying she "had to go somewhere."

Sophie's rejection deeply affected Simon, who blamed himself for his decision, preventing him from overcoming the pain. Depending on the game, Simon will either ignore his emotions, allowing them to build up to the point of harming both him and Sophie, or, despite the pain, he will move on.

History
Simon is a person diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Prior to the events of Cry of Fear (as seen in the game's opening scene), Simon was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in which he was pinned against a building by a car while trying to help an injured man late at night. Although he miraculously survived the incident, he was paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair for life, causing him additional psychological trauma that led him to isolate himself and resent his own life. Dr. Purnell was assigned as Simon's psychiatrist after the accident, and through cognitive therapy, Simon was instructed to write a book about his emotions and anxiety to free himself from the trauma he suffered during what he insists on calling "Black Day."

Simon wrote the book according to the instructions, and thus the events of Cry of Fear begin. The unfolding events are a metaphorical representation of Simon's mind and his struggle to exorcise his inner demons through writing, and the actions he takes throughout the game demonstrate the therapy's effectiveness. During Cry of Fear, Simon directly confronts his trauma by putting it into words in the book. Each boss battle represents a pivotal moment in his life where he suffered some kind of trauma, and the game's numerous metaphors reflect his mental state.

The Simon you control in Cry of Fear is, in fact, a mental projection of the original Simon, who is battling inner trauma. The fate of both Simons depends on the ending unlocked based on your actions during the game.