Tiny bunny

First violin (Roma)
Fields (Khariton)

Polina is a quiet, gentle girl. She's an orphan and doesn't even remember her parents, but according to her official description, Polina decided to follow in her mother's footsteps, and her grandfather, who was the first to notice his granddaughter's musical talent, supported this endeavor by hiring her a tutor. As a result, the girl plays the violin very well.

Being the "village's first violin," Polina is in many ways similar to this instrument—she is a sensitive, gentle soul, reminiscent of a member of the aristocracy or intelligentsia. Polina is intelligent and polite, treats others with kindness and patience, and skillfully chooses her words for dialogue. She also has a touch of mischief: she often jokes and flirts coquettishly with Anton. Polina is independent of other people's opinions and does not bend to alien morals, even at the risk of being left alone. She spends all recesses the same way Anton does: staying in class to look out the window or to draw in her notebook. In times of danger, she is ready to stand up for herself and her loved ones: when she and Anton encountered hooligans in the forest (Dependent), she does her best to protect the boy. In such cases, Polina usually relies on her intuition and intimate knowledge of people, trying to verbally exploit their fears and weaknesses to completely demoralize the offender. This can be seen vividly when, in the fourth episode, the girl used a similar skill to send Roma and Byasha into a psychological knockout ("Depends"). She also doesn't shy away from physical combat—when Anton and Roma tried to put on a show in front of Polina, she unhesitatingly hit Petrov in the face with a violin case.

Answers in Polina's questionnaire.
Answers in Polina's questionnaire.
Polina is a great fan of various musical genres, especially classical music. Her favorite composers are Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. From her grandfather, she inherited both a love and interest in local folklore. Her favorite holidays are her birthday, and her favorite cartoon is "The Bremen Town Musicians."

Polina is a slender and beautiful twelve-year-old girl. Her hair is long, black, and straight, and her eyes are a deep blue. She usually has a cheerful, gentle expression and a welcoming smile. Polina is distinguished by her refined, elegant gestures and smells pleasantly of blackberries.

At school, she usually wears a white shirt with a black vest and a light blue tie, a skirt, strappy shoes, and stud earrings. Outside, Polina wears a brown belted coat with six rows of buttons, black fur-trimmed boots, knitted turquoise mittens with a rope pattern on her hands, and a turquoise hat with a pompom on top. She often carries a violin in a black case.

In the comic "Bunny: Stolen Childhood," Polina wears a black sundress and a white shirt with short puff sleeves and a ribbon tied in a bow under the collar. She wears black gloves and a simple wide-brimmed hat. She wears white socks and dark strappy shoes.

As an adult, Polina wears her hair in a ponytail, leaving only a long strand down the left side of her face. Outside, she wears a long black coat over a form-fitting black dress, black tights, and black shoes. On New Year's Eve, at the end of In a Still Pool…, Polina lets her hair down and wears a sleeveless, sequined, floor-length evening green dress.

Gossip Girl (Anton)
Snake (Anton)
Viper (Anton)

Katya is a typical example of a spiteful and vindictive beast, not averse to gossip and pitting others against each other. Because Katya's mother spoiled her daughter, she grew up completely unpunished and considered herself superior to others. She feeds on the resentment and grief of others, often snitching, and, with a sadistic glee in her eyes, enjoys watching her victims suffer. At the same time, she has authority in the class, being the class monitor and the daughter of the homeroom teacher, so Katya has many friends with whom she gossips and discusses rumors, and no one dares to confront her openly. Katya maintains a peculiar partnership with Roma Pyatifanov's gang and never misses an opportunity to help them bully the latest "lucky one," then watching their suffering, although it later turns out that Roma and his friend Byasha are also targets of her gossip.

The comic "Love, Death, and Strawberries" shows that Katya can fall in love, but she will deny it to the very end and hide it with her unpleasant character and actions, even if she subsequently feels shame and grief. Only when she finds herself in mortal danger does Katya give in to her emotions, begging for help and regretting that she never confessed her feelings to Anton.

In Anton's dream, Katya appears as a hyperbolic version of her true self, causing the boy to lose his temper and attack her, humiliating him and his family in front of his classmates. Even when Anton stops beating her, Katya calls him "off his rocker," and her face displays signs of total madness, malicious pleasure, and glee at the protagonist's moral destruction.

Katya is a slender twelve-year-old girl, standing 155 centimeters tall. She's quite attractive, studious, and impeccably dressed. Her light-brown hair is braided, and her eyes are green. However, while she's quite attractive, Katya's facial expression has a hint of a viper's demeanor, accentuated by her protruding fangs and sly gaze.

Katya's outfit includes a neat black sundress with a white skirt underneath, a white long-sleeved shirt, white stockings, and black strappy shoes. She wears stud earrings, and her hair is tied with a strawberry-shaped elastic band. Outside, Katya wears a purple jacket with a fur hood, white gloves, a white scarf, a knitted hat with earflaps, three pom-poms, and a flower-shaped brooch.

Pig (Anton, Roma, "Byasha", former classmates from another school)
Syoma (Anton, Roma)
Fatty
Fat ("Byasha")

Semyon is a bully who belonged to a gang of thugs in sixth-grade class, where he served as the "brute force." He lives with his grandmother; nothing is known about his parents. He transferred to Anton's school not long ago, but he's already earned a reputation as a troublemaker.

According to Polina, Semyon's grandmother told her that before he transferred to another school, the boy had a completely different personality. It seems he was severely bullied at his old school for being overweight and unable to stand up for himself, which left him embittered. So, after transferring to the new school, he decided to treat people the same way they had treated him at his old school. He became so aggressive and cruel that even older students, not to mention his classmates, began to fear him. Semyon isn't above cruelty to animals, hooliganism, and violence, and he himself is quite a vile and despicable character. However, he is also quite weak psychologically, and when faced with failure, he quickly gives in and loses control of the situation, becoming uncontrollable and hysterical like a wounded animal.

The saddest thing for him is that, despite his status, he's essentially little less of an outcast in class than Anton. Semyon has no real friends, everyone hates and fears him, and the bullies only befriend him until he embarrasses himself, and they can exert psychological pressure on him if they feel like it. When Anton fights back in the second episode in front of Roma and Byasha, they quickly realize their friend has lost his nerve and switch sides. Only when Semyon starts fighting in a way they consider unmanly do the boys beat up their former friend, who flees the scene in tears.

In the prequel comic "Stolen Childhood," it is revealed that Roma and Byasha lured Semyon to the Black Garage, making him a host for the Medvezhutka parasite. It was likely after this that he joined their gang, taking advantage of his position and tormenting those around him.

Semyon is a boy of thirteen years old, of average height, with short-cropped red hair and gray eyes. A very fat, even obese, pimply teenager with gnawed nails and rotten teeth. Semyon is wearing a shirt with two pockets on the chest, jeans and black dutik boots, and a signet ring with a geometric pattern is worn on the ring finger of his left hand.

On the street, Semyon wears a black mink hat with earflaps, a warm dark brown sheepskin coat and a beige scarf.

Byasha (Roma, Anton, Polina)
Byakh (Roma)
Bro (Roma)

Byasha is a brazen and impudent little troublemaker, a joker, and Roma's closest friend. Byasha doesn't always understand hints and isn't as insightful as his friend, but he also lacks Roma's cruelty. According to Byasha's character description, he usually resorts to goading and verbal abuse of the victim, and is incapable of much without his best friend, quickly losing his former confidence when conflict escalates. Despite this, Byasha rarely initiates arguments, mostly being led by Roma. It's quite possible he views his lifestyle more as a game and doesn't fully understand the seriousness of his actions.

Byasha is one of the lucky few who survived their encounter with the Black Garage. The incident left a deep mark on him, and Byasha never brings it up himself, panicking at any mention of it. The very existence of this mysterious structure frightens Byasha more than the possibility of a serial killer operating in the village: if Anton mentions the Black Garage as being behind the children's disappearances, Byasha will interrupt in a panic and point to the activities of a local maniac (Depends).

Byasha's psychological trauma, in addition to his panicky fear of the Garage, also manifests itself in the fact that at certain moments he begins bleating like a sheep. It's unclear whether the trigger is severe stress or memories of what he saw in the Garage. According to Roma, this behavior only developed after the Black Garage incident and hadn't been observed before.

Byasha smokes and collects earbuds with Roma. He's a keen camper and spent a week camping in the woods during the summer. In the third episode, it's revealed that Byasha enjoys pyrography: he uses a soldering iron to burn wood and once gave his mother a tulip he'd burned onto a cutting board for her birthday.

Byasha is a boy of Asian appearance with slanted eyes (he is of Buryat ethnicity). He has shaved sides and thick black bangs. As a result of an accident, Byasha is missing two central upper incisors, which causes him to lisp.

At school, the boy wears a lemon-yellow knit sweater with a dark turquoise collar, cuffs and stripes[6], with the inscription Tear BOYZ embroidered in the center, jeans and fur-lined boots.

On the street, Byasha wears a dark blue The North Fake down jacket with a hood[2].

In the comics "Bunny. Romka and Byasha against everyone!" and "Bunny. Stolen Childhood," Byasha wears a simple white T-shirt, dark pants with the right leg rolled up, and flip-flops.

After Byasha encounters the Black Garage again in Episode 4 (Dependent), his hair turns completely gray within seconds. It remains this way for the rest of his life, and thus, by the ending of "Genius and Darkness," the now-adult Byasha looks like a prematurely aged man. He has only a tuft of gray hair left in the front, while the sides and back of his head are completely shaved. He has begun slouching and constantly adopts defensive postures, bending his knees and holding his arms across his chest. Byasha wears a light-colored plaid button-down pajama shirt and matching pajama pants.

Romka
Romanych (Byasha)
Romych (Byasha)
Romchik
Romochka (Polina)
Pyatifan (Polina)
Romeo the Unfinished (Polina)
Little Wolf (Peter)

Roma is the main bully in 6th grade, a strict rule-breaker who doesn't shy away from bullying the weak. Due to pedagogical neglect and adult indifference, Roma is in many ways reminiscent of a wild animal. He also hates the police, dismissively calling them "trash," having been called to the police station several times for vandalism and theft. He likely understands the hopelessness of his situation in a forgotten village where child abductions are common, and this contributes significantly to his marginal lifestyle. Despite his troubled relationship with his father, he deeply respects him, and the topic of war is serious enough for the boy to punish those who would use it for blackmail. Roma easily recognizes the lie that Anton's father fought in the war and threatens to seriously injure his classmate for such a statement.

Roma respects those who stand up for themselves and despises those who act underhandedly, considering it a form of stealth. If Anton humiliates Semyon twice, it impresses Roma, who develops a newfound respect for the boy: when Semyon steals Anton's glasses, an enraged Roma and Byasha attack his former friend, demanding the return of the "lenses." After this, Roma quickly changes his mind about Anton, walks him home, and later even begins to see him as a friend. It's unclear whether Roma has any friends besides Byasha and Anton. He is also in love with his classmate Polina and wants to win her over. Roma's description on the official website states that he is adored by his classmates, but this isn't evident in the game—Polina prefers Anton, and Katya shows no interest in Roma, seeing him as just another object for gossip.

Romka expertly spins a butterfly knife, smokes, and collects inserts with Byasha. From his questionnaire in Polina's notebook, we know that Roma's favorite musician is Shafutinsky, his favorite holiday is February 23rd, that he loves to go for walks, considers Stallone Schwarzenegger his heroes, dreams of buying a Boomer, his favorite cartoon is DuckTales, and that his best friend is Byasha.

Roma is a twelve-year-old boy with short dark brown hair, large lips, and sharp, coarse features, leading him to be compared to a small predatory animal. He is physically well-developed, and regular boxing has left calluses on his palms. Roma also has bruised knuckles. He is described as having strong, sharp teeth and dirty fingernails.

Roma usually dresses in a blue[3] three-striped tracksuit, consisting of a high-collared sweatshirt and pants, and wears blunt-toed boots.

On the street, Roma wears a leather jacket over his tracksuit. His hat covers only the back of his head.

In the comics "Bunny. Romka and Byasha Against Everyone!" and "Bunny. Stolen Childhood," Roma wears a black tracksuit jacket similar to the one he wears in the novella, but without the thick stripes and "Abidas" lettering, paired with black shorts. He has several bandages on his feet, which are clad in striped sneakers, and on his nose.

Bespectacled (Semyon, Byasha, Roma, Katya in a dream)
Bunny (Forest Creatures, Roma)
Brother (Olya)
The Fool (Alice)

A quiet and shy child, he likely became so after Boris Petrov and his mother began constantly arguing and fighting. Before the move, he was apparently more outgoing and relaxed because he had friends, although he apparently wasn't treated very well at his previous school. He was very timid, but in critical moments, such as during the shootout with Semyon, he could be decisive and humiliate the offender.

Of all the people around him, he's most attached to his younger sister, Olya, for whom he does everything to please and not upset the girl. He loves his parents just as much, and his father is even a role model for him. However, the boy is deeply saddened by the fact that they are at odds with each other at the time of the knife fight, and believes he's partly to blame—after all, their first fight was when Anton didn't get what he wanted for his birthday, and he was deeply upset about it. At his new school, he falls in love for the first time—his classmate, Polina, for whose sake he's able to overcome his fears and try to protect her in desperate situations.

Anton's answers in Polina's questionnaire.
Anton's answers in Polina's questionnaire.
Anton draws well and has a rich, even overly so, imagination. He's intelligent and well-read, which allows him to express himself quite eloquently for his age. He mostly reads encyclopedias, children's detective stories, and adventure books. He enjoys various robot cartoons and listens to Russian rock and pop. He dreams of visiting Disneyland. He loves New Year's and everything associated with it, even the smells.

However, deep within the boy lurks a deep disappointment in those around him and certain depressive and misanthropic tendencies. With a prolonged series of failures, all of this will come to the surface, causing Anton to become increasingly embittered and cynical toward everyone around him. Even Polina, who is kind to the boy, is then seen by the hero as a two-faced and unpleasant person.

A twelve-year-old teenager, approximately 155 centimeters tall, with shaggy snow-white hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. He also has green eyes. He wears round-framed glasses, without which he has very poor vision. He most often wears a white school shirt, a black vest, and matching pants, along with dark winter sneakers. Outside, he wears a warm gray hooded jacket, black gloves, and a striped hat with the words "Sport" written in circles. During certain elections, he will wear an amulet given to him by Polina under the collar of his shirt.

As he grows older, Anton becomes a strong and handsome man with short blond hair and a thick, but equally short, beard, in many ways beginning to resemble his father. He continues to wear thick-lensed glasses with round frames. As an adult, Anton wears a black turtleneck, black pants, and white socks. When outside, he wears a long, knee-length black coat and matching athletic shoes.