Characters in this game
This table is the cast of HERE COME THE CATS, not a Deltarune encyclopedia. Dess is playable. FRIEND is the large cat. CONCATENY is the feeding form that speaks in capitals. The doctor is a title in the dialogue, not a sprite with a nameplate.
| Name | Role in this game | Relation | Art credit | Where | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dess | Playable protagonist; the SOUL is grafted onto her | December in this fan game; wider Deltarune family lore is not established by these sources | Kordacpz (Dess portraits and additional sprites) | Entire game | 1 developer account across stores, project and post |
| FRIEND | Antagonist cat that hunts Dess; the later feeding-form connection is an interpretation of the scene files | Deltarune's FRIEND, reinterpreted as the head of a hunting pack | Kordacpz (FRIEND lipsyncing) | First encounter; later feeding-form relation inferred from scene and dialogue files | 2 accounts; portrait credit: 1 developer |
Dess, in this story
The itch text calls her a moody deer monster sharing the Depths with an enigmatic scientist. She collects cat-coins for the doctor, who had warned her. After the rat trap, the SOUL is in her chest and she is furious about it. CONCATENY later calls her December, which matches the longer name December Holiday, and a developer reply described the game as a side plot while Noelle and Susie are elsewhere. Kordacpz is credited for her portraits. Zeno is credited for the cover and the title screen.
The cats and the unnamed scientist
FRIEND gets mouth shapes from Kordacpz, so the large cat is meant to lipsync. CONCATENY knows about the SOUL and gives the win condition in four short lines. The hunting pack is the swarm around them. The scientist is the itch page’s second survivor and the dialogue’s “doctor.” The credits mention Gaster’s lab as environment art by Eduardito. That is a credit line, not a confession that the doctor walks on screen under that name. I leave the identification as a maybe.
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Questions
Is the doctor named on screen?
Dialogue says “the doctor.” The credits call the lab art “Gaster’s lab.” I do not merge those into “Gaster is a character in this game.”
Are FRIEND and CONCATENY the same cat?
A portrait named cat_evolve and the line “Feeding form...” point that way. The game never prints a sentence that says they are one body. I call CONCATENY the feeding form and mark that as a reading.
Where are ages and heights?
No store page or file I read gives them. Those cells stay empty.
Sources
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