Psychonauts/Characters

This article contains descriptions of the many characters who feature in the game Psychonauts.

Major characters

 * Raz: One of many children attending Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. See main article: Razputin.


 * Lili Zanotto: Lili is a girl who has attended the camp for several years, and is bored of the Psychonaut camp. She appears to have a crush on Raz, and is also kind to Dogen and the other weaker children.


 * Morceau Oleander: Tiny, easily angered, and the head coach of Whispering Rock. Oleander seems like the typical army man. However his past may be catching up to him.


 * Like the other counselors, he has a rather traumatic past. Unlike the other counselors however he is unable to control his nightmares. As a child, Little Oly loved bunnies. Unfortunately his father was a massive and brutal Butcher who believed that animals are only good for meat and would often take his son's rabbits and chop them up (With Little Oly watching and crying). This and coupled with the shame that he has never actually been accepted into the army lead to a hatred of mankind in general. During their mindmeld, Raz is able to defeat both his own inner demons and Oleander's (Both of their demons happen to be their fathers), giving Oleander true inner peace. He later apologizes to everyone for stealing their brains and thanks Raz for his efforts.
 * It is also suggested that he is actually more powerful than both Sasha and Milla combined, as a remote projection of Oleander is an even match for both Psychonauts.


 * Sasha Nein: Sasha is a world famous Psychonaut who is constantly seen downstairs in his lab testing his experiments. His contributations to the Psychonauts as an international secret agent and scientist makes him a valuable asset.
 * Inside Sasha's mind, everything seems to be well organized and structured in a cube that's as cool and calculated as Sasha himself. However, once Raz overloads the Censor generator, bits and pieces of Sasha's history appear.


 * As it turns out, Sasha's mother got sick and died back when he was still an infant. In his mind, he has early memories of her feeding him, and playing with him back when he was a baby.  She was Sasha's first loss.  (This is the reason why various baby items and a deathbed appear in Sasha's mind)
 * Later in life, Sasha is working for his father, a shoemaker, as a teenager. Not knowing much about his mother, he tries using his early psychic talents to read his father's mind.  He finds happy memories about his mother when she was alive and how his father is sure she must be an angel in heaven now.  However, Sasha's mind probing seem to go a bit too deep, and he finds some thoughts about his mother that he REALLY did not want to know about.  Highly embarrassed, he leaves home in order to practice honing and controlling his powers, leading into his career as a Psychonaut. Between his time in his father's shoe store and joining the Psychonauts, he worked in a factory making tacky lamps; he apparently had a miserable time there, for to this day the sight of those lamps fills them with digust, and he has Razputin use them as target practice while earning his Marksmanship power.


 * Milla Vodello: A fun loving international secret agent and Psychonaut teacher. Milla is seen as a party girl, the center of attention. When she's not having fun she loves to work with the campers and teaches them such psychic abilities such as Levitation.
 * Despite Milla's outward party-girl appearance, she holds a much deeper and darker side inside her disco, pinball, dance-themed mind. She has two memory vaults, and one holds her deepest, most dark secret.
 * The first memory vault shows her going on various adventures with Sasha Nein as Psychonauts. Partnering with the more cool and reserved Sasha seemed to make for an odd pairing, but deep down, it is seen in her thoughts that she harbors VERY strong feelings towards Sasha Nein.  Perhaps their relationship is more than just business?

The second memory vault contains Milla's nightmares. Hidden in her mind is a small room with various children toys, figments, and a large toy box. She warns Raz to get out of that part of her mind and rejoin the party. Whatever is in there is a party killer. If Raz decides not to heed her warning, and jumps into the toy chest, he uncovers the nightmare room.
 * The nightmare room contains various dark, evil shadows held behind a cade made of what appears to be fire. Milla says to Raz that he has stumbled upon her deepest and darkest nightmares.  If not for her control over her own thoughts, she would be overwhelmed by her nightmares and fears.  Before Raz leaves, listening closely to the nightmare shadows reveals whispers calling to Milla for help and to Save Us.
 * More information can be found in the vault. It reveals that before becoming a Psychonaut, Milla Vodello was a nun or a nurse (exact position never explicitly stated) at an orphanage.  Her days at the orphanage were fun as she sang along with the children, fed them, played with them, and cared for them deeply.  HOWEVER, one night she leaves to go get some groceries, and returns to find the orphanage on fire!  Helpless, she stands outside listening to the screams of the children pleading her for help.  It could be assumed that this traumatic event triggers her psychic powers.


 * Ford Cruller: At first glance, Ford Cruller is a senile old man who seems to find some way to be everywhere at once. Each time he appears, he thinks he's somebody else (for example: Admiral Ford, Ranger Ford, Janitor Ford, Chef Ford, etc.) However, Ford's past is much more illustrious than it would seem.
 * Ford Cruller is one of the original Psychonauts, and presumably one of the best. His psychic powers were immense and he helped establish the Psychonaut organization to combat Psycho-terrorism.  As he grew old, he went into retirement and became the head of Whispering Rock summer camp to help train young, new recruits.  However, his real purpose for being placed at Whispering Rock was to guard one of the world's largest deposits of Psitanium, a mineral that can enhance the psychic abilities within people (or drive them insane).
 * Unfortunately for Ford, he got into a psychic battle with a powerful enemy psychic. While Ford was able to walk away from the fight, his psyche had been shattered as a result.  This left him in a state of senile, multiple personality syndrome.  The only time Ford can ever be himself is when he is near a large quantity of Psitanium.
 * Since the incident that shattered Ford's mind, the Psychonaut organization no longer takes him seriously, save for Psychonaut Agents Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello who help the sane Ford take care of any assignments or missions that he can not handle himself. From his base underneath Lake Oblongata, Ford directs the two whenever trouble should strike, while Coach Oleander usually takes care of the camp.
 * Later, with Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello out of the picture, Raz is the only hope the camp has on stopping Coach Oleander's evil plot, and Ford takes the role of being Raz's supervisor, mentor, and confidant throughout his mission. Raz can summon Ford for advice using a piece of bacon (Ford's favorite food).

Children at Whispering Rock
Below is a list of Raz's fellow bunkmates at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. Each kid can be found at different locations during different times of the day, and depending on which part of the story being played through.


 * Benny The Nose Fideleo: Bobby Zilch's sycophantic friend. He mocks the other campers, but becomes quite insecure whenever Bobby is not around. Later, a failed attempt at trying to torment Maloof results in being held upside down in the air by Mikail, Maloof's new friend and bodyguard.  Despite his rather large ears, he is called The Nose.
 * Bobby Zilch: Bobby is the Camp Bully who happens to be particularly mean to Raz. He is convinced that the entire camp is below him, and he has a little sicophant named Benny. He also has an enormous 'cotton candy-like' clump of orange head-hair. Bobby secretly holds a crush on Chloe.
 * Chloe Barge: A space cadet in every sense of the word, Chloe is absolutely certain that she is from outer space.  She usually uses Coach Oleander's radio, connected to the camp's PA system, to try and contact any UFO passing by so she can get off Earth.  Her most notable trait is the space helmet she wears all the time, and she can be found either out flying a remote control space ship, or fiddling with the camp radio in Oleander's cabin.  She is the ONLY person Bobby Zilch is AUTHENTICALLY nice to.  She is well aware that Bobby Zilch has a crush on her, but says that his technique needs a lot of work.
 * Clem Foote: Clem is an eerily enthusiastic cadet who is close friends with Crystal. Both seem very happy on the outside, and see all other campmates as football players (explained by clairvoyance). However, when he is alone, he starts to track down the other half of this two-man cheerleading group, possibly to keep Crystal from hurting herself.
 * Crystal Flowers Snagrash: Crystal is an eerily enthusiastic cadet who is close friends with Clem. Both seem very happy on the outside, and see all other campmates as football players (explained by clairvoyance). However, later in the game, she tells Raz about her multiple failed suicide attempts.
 * Dogen Boole: Dogen is a short friend of Raz who has incredible psychic powers. Poor Dogen has yet to master his psychic talents, and says that one time he kind of made someone's head explode, hence his special tin-foil hat.  He seems to be very agitated with the local squirrels who seem to say that he's going to kill everyone.  He also seems to accidentally make some squirrels explode when they bother him too much.
 * Elka Doom: Elka is a snobby, controlling, prissy girl at Whispering Rock who first appears to be in a one-sided relationship with J.T. (whom she calls James). Later, it turns out that this was merely a revenge tactic against Nils, her ex-boyfriend.  At the end of the game, she breaks off her relationship with J.T., and gets back together with Nils.  (Although Nils does not seem to be overly thrilled with going steady so quickly).
 * James J.T. Hoofburger: J.T. is a kid who looks like he's seen way too many westerns on TV over the years.  J.T. always wears a cowboy hat, and speaks as if he was a real cowpoke.  Unfortunately for him, he seems to be in a one-sided relationship with Elka Doom which is putting a straing on his friendship with fellow camp cadet, Chops.  Despite being Elka's whipping boy, J.T. eventually gets out of the relationship, and gets back together with Chops.  He can be found at the target range outside the main lodge during the day, practicing his primary psychic ability, psychic energy blasts.  At night, he's out protecting the kid's cabins with his buddy, Chops.
 * Maloof Canola: Maloof is a short child who has always been the prey of bullies Bobby and Benny. Roughly halfway through the game, Maloof befriends Russian cadet Mikhail, who defends Maloof from then on out, giving the bullies his famous Half-Deadly Nelson.
 * Mikhail Bulgakov: A Russian immigrant with a funny hat, Mikhail is very worried about a Giant... Hairless... Bear lurking through the woods. This happens to come up in conversation every time Mikhail is included in a scene.
 * Milka Phage: Milka is a cadet who is extremely gifted in the art of invisibility. Early on, she can be found in the main lodge drawing at one of the tables, but usually disappears whenever you get close to her. (She's very shy.)  However, examining her drawings show Elton Fir with hearts around him.  Later, she and Elton begin hanging out, and then even later, they go steady.
 * Nils Lutefisk: A boy with the appearance of a child's doll, Nils is convinced he is the perfect ladies man, and always finds a way to relate a situation to women. His last serious relationship was with Elka Doom.
 * Phoebe Love: Phoebe is a member of the band called The Fire-Starters with Quentin.  Her main musical talent is playing the drums, and still hasn't forgotten the time Quentin levitated her as part of their act, resulting in her crashing on top of her drum set.  She is usually found practicing in the main lodge with Quentin, and later, the two work on trying to write Raz's victory song.  Her primary psychic talent is pyrokinesis.
 * Quentin Hedgemouse: Quentin is a member of the band called The Levitators with Phoebe. His main musical talent is record scratching on the turntables, and still hasn't forgotten the one time Phoebe accidentally melted his turntable records with some unplanned pyrotechnics of hers.  He's usually found practicing in the main lodge with Phoebe, and later, the two work on trying to write Raz's victory song.  His primary psychic talent is levitation.
 * Vernon Tripe: Is he a boy? Or a veritable library of epic fiction, beautifully indexed and cross-referenced? Either way, he is cursed with the inability to recount his harrowing yarns in anything but an incoherent, rambling, randomly-generated drawl of story fragments. His mantra: Never follow a snake into its den. That is the code of the mongoose. The code of the hunter.

Thorney Towers staff and residents
These are people Raz meets in the Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed asylum:


 * Boyd Cooper: Security guard at Thornley Towers . Highly paranoid, Cooper is obsessed with an individual he refers to as The Milkman, and is on orders not to let anyone into the asylum until the Milkman arrives. In order to find out more about the Milkman, Raz journeys into Boyd's mind. After exploring a warped suburban neighborhood crawling with secret agents who are also looking for the Milkman, Raz discovers the truth... Boy and the Milkman are one and the same!
 * Apparently, Boyd was once the security guard at a department store. Incensed at being unexpectedly fired (from yet another job, it seems), Boyd snapped and burned the place down. He wound up a patient at Thornley Towers, where Oleander offered him a job as a security guard... and used hypnosis to plant subconscious orders into Boyd's mind. On cue, Boyd would become the Milkman, a serial arsonist who would burn down the asylum, leaving no trace of Oleander's plot for world domination.


 * Dr. Loboto: Supposedly the villain in the game. A deranged dentist who has gone into amateur brain surgery, he removes the brains of the kids to plant them into death-tanks as part of Oleander's scheme for world domination.
 * Gloria Van Glouten: A former star and actress, Gloria suffers from Bipolar Disorder. She has a tendency to suddenly shift moods at random intervals, being a kind and passive person one minute to being rage-fiiled and mean the next. The disorder seems to stem from her mother's suicide and is represented in her mind by the ongoing conflict between her inner muse, Bonita Solei and the critic Jasper Rolls (Bonita mentions that Jasper appeared not long after Gloria's mother killed herself). Gloria's mind is set up as a theatre production constantly playing vignettes from her past, particularly in her childhood as a student of an Acting Academy.

Other characters

 * Linda the Lungfish: Once an ordinary lungfish, Linda was pulled out of her happy Lake Oblongata home by Dr. Loboto and Coach Oleander. Used as part of their mad experiments, Linda was turned into the Hulking Lungfish, and was implanted with a brainwashing mechanism so she could go and capture the children of Whispering Rock Summer Camp.  If you get to rank 100 in the game, you find out that she and Mr. Pokylope actually go back a LONG way.


 * Mr. Pokylope: Mr. Pokylope is a small turtle who belongs to Dr. Loboto's assistant, Sheegor. He is kept in a small terrarium in Dr. Loboto's lab over a hot stove.  With him in captivity, Sheegor is blackmailed into helping Dr. Loboto with his mad schemes, lest Mr. Pokylope get turned into Turtle Soup!  After rescuing Mr. Pokylope, it is revealed that he can talk with a surprisingly deep voice (whether this is all in Sheegor's head or not, it is not immediately clear, but it seems like he can actually talk), and he tells Sheegor how they can stop Dr. Loboto.

The plan goes that Sheegor with her advanced brain handling skills, removed Mr. Pokylope's brain and brings it to Dr. Loboto (who can't seem to tell the turtle's brain from that of a young girl). With Raz's help, the brain is placed inside one of the experimental psychic death beam machines, and Mr. Pokylope finally gets his revenge on Dr. Loboto for constantly trying to off him as part of controlling Sheegor. Once Dr. Loboto is sent plummeting to his doom by a psychic death beam, Sheegor proceeds to put Sasha Nein's and Milla Vodello's brains back into place (as well as Mr. Pokylope's).

Mr. Pokylope's most notable traits are his fashionable crown and boots (given to him by Sheegor, I'm sure). If you get to rank 100 in the game, you find out that he and Linda the Lungfish go back a LONG way, and that Mr. Pokylope's REAL name is Sam.


 * Razputin's father: In Raz's mind, his father is a cruel and oppresive Psychic hater due to the fact that psychics cursed his family to die in water. In the real world however he cares deeply about his son and is merely protecting Raz from harm. He is also a Psychic himself and is very knowledgeable in matters of the mind.