When people fall into the Sea of Despair and sink to the bottom, Misery steals their names– heavy burdens– to make them begin floating up. With the absence of names, people are no longer people, and they are transformed into nameless, faceless wanderers.

She represents gender dysphoria, separating you from what you thought was yourself. She makes you look at yourself and see an unfamiliar face, but she also makes you realize you need a new one.

The sleazy, tired man of the House of Glass. He generally runs the place and makes sure nobody is throwing stones. While he is the concept of Hell itself, he’s really not that bad of a guy. He’s also fiercely protective of his wives, Fury and Scorn.

Hell represents the inherent disparity of experiences between cisgender people and their trans and queer partners. More specifically, cisgender men with trans partners.

The loving and dedicated wives of Hell and groundsworkers for the House of Glass. While neither of them talk very much and are quite elusive, they are masters at getting guests of the House to realize their concepts.

Fury and Scorn represent the intersectionality of trans identities and queer romantic and sexual identities. They, along with Hell, also represent and exemplify a healthy polyamorous relationship involving cis and trans identities.

Many believe them to be the leader of the Welcoming Committee due to them generally being the one to drag newcomers of the Drawing Board into the House of Glass. Really, they just prefer to be alone and enjoy long walks on the Shores of Despair.

Pity represents the external pressure from the world to ‘be who you are’ but only within specific parameters. But they are not a bad guy and ultimately just want you to be smart and stay safe. However, in the end, they inadvertently stop you from doing it at all.

An annoying, fickle creature that always manages to find itself in conversations that didn’t involve it at all. It constantly butts in and attempts to make itself known despite how small it is.

Sorry represents the awful self-image and lack of self-confidence that many trans people hold. It is annoying to everyone, including itself.

The player’s starting point. An ever-expanding ocean of tears cried by Misery and those whose names she’s claimed.

An allegory for the depression and other mental illnesses trans people are frequently afflicted with, especially pre-transition or pre-realization.

Act 1’s main setting. A mysterious house inhabited by The Welcoming Committee that sits on the shore of the Sea of Despair. It moves every night when out of sight and out of mind.

An allegory for the outside-looking-in perspective many have towards the lives of trans people, and how there seems to be a nigh-invisible barrier between our lives and theirs.

Act 2’s main setting. An unknowably large expanse of sand and dunes that people often find themselves crossing for infinite periods of time in search of their names and The Continuum.

An allegory for the oft-Mosean journey trans people often have to take to both find themselves and understand where they want to be in life. More specifically, the journey some must take to find a partner to share their typically-challenging life with.

Act 3’s main setting and one of two ending locations. A massive house owned by Time in which he constantly throws parties. Many rooms are sealed off, reserved only for when the love of his life– Space– finds their name.

An allegory for how a relationship can feel confining for the parties involved if one realizes they’re trans. It can also be confining to be with someone that might no longer align with your sexuality/attraction preferences.

The second of the two ending locations. A strange land nobody seems to come back from– not much is known about it other than it is incomprehensible.

Represents the ‘wandering’ feeling some trans people experience during their journey– the feeling of when you don’t know where else to go or what else to do, but that they are not yet done.