74 characters in Days Gone.
Abigail Butler
Abigail Butler is a scavenger from Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp and the twin sister of Gabbi. The two fail to come back from a short fishing trip on the Metolius River. Rikki sends Deacon to look for them in Gone Fishing.
Ada Tucker
Ada Tucker runs the Hot Springs work camp, where everyone has to earn their keep. She is the one who puts the bounty on Leon in the opening storyline. Early on she becomes a key job giver, paying well for bounties, rescues and new workers.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationAddison Walker
Addison Walker, called Addy, is the doctor at Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp, though she trained as a livestock vet. You meet her when Deacon brings in a badly sick Boozer. She is Rikki Patil's partner and gives jobs in the It's All We've Got storyline.
Alkai Turner
Alkai Turner is Ada Tucker's right-hand man at the Hot Springs camp. He runs security, sells weapons and handles the work Tucker cannot do herself. You meet him arguing with Tucker over the camp's irrigation ditch when you bring in Leon's bounty.
Alvarez
Alvarez is a drifter who once rode with Deacon and Boozer and did supply runs for the camps. She teams up with Leon to steal drugs from Tucker's Hot Springs camp. You run into her during the opening Chasing Leon storyline.
Arturo Jiminez
Doctor Arturo Jiminez, called Doc, is the only physician in the Deschutes County Militia and holds the rank of captain. He gives Deacon his medical check when he enlists at Wizard Island. He is one of the kindest people you meet in the Militia.
Ava Bergstrom
Ava Bergstrom, called Bergey, is the weapons trader at the Militia's Diamond Lake camp. She sells guns and ammo to Deacon for camp credits. She is upbeat and enjoys giving him a hard time.
Blair
Blair is the weapons trader at Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp. She sells guns and ammo to Deacon once he is welcome back in camp. She chats with him about camp news as the story moves on.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationBoozer
Boozer is Deacon's best friend and riding partner, and a former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Mongrels MC. He rides with you from the first mission as the two hunt bounties in the Cascades. What happens to him in the opening hours drives much of the first half of the story.
Buzz Simon
Buzz Simon is the mechanic at Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp. He sells bike parts and handles fuel and repairs once Deacon is welcome in camp. Lost Lake credits earned through jobs and bounties go toward his upgrades.
Caleb Tomlinson
Caleb Tomlinson is the mechanic at the Militia's Wizard Island camp. He refuels and repairs Deacon's bike for camp credits. He grew up in Farewell watching the Mongrels ride through town.
Carlos
Carlos leads the Rippers, a cult that worships the Freakers and carves RIP into its members' foreheads. You hear about him long before you see him, as his followers hunt for two Mongrels bikers. He is the main villain of the game's first half.
Christy Copeland
Christopher Copeland, called Christy, was Mark Copeland's only son. He lived outside Oregon but came back each hunting season to join his father. He died before 2019, and Cope still keeps one of his letters.
Cooper
Cooper is a NERO researcher and a friend of O'Brian. His team goes into a cave in the Highway 97 region to sample a mutant Freaker and stops answering the radio. O'Brian sends Deacon in to find them.
Crystal Adkins
Crystal Adkins is a convicted felon still wearing her prison jumpsuit two years after the outbreak. Deacon first meets her alongside Captain Kouri in Don't Give Me Orders, and she crosses his path again later. She has no love for the Militia.
Damon Reynolds
Damon Reynolds is the weapons trader at Copeland's Camp on Peaceful Lake. He sells guns, ammo and gear to Deacon for Copeland's camp credits.
David Gorman
David Gorman was a young researcher at Cloverdale's Iron Butte lab who worked alongside Sarah. He never appears on screen, but his name comes up in her flashbacks and at the lab. He was sure the company was hiding a secret project.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationDeacon St. John
Deacon St. John is the player character: a former soldier and Mongrels MC enforcer who now works as a drifter and bounty hunter in post-outbreak Oregon. You play as him from the opening hunt for Leon. He still grieves his wife Sarah, whom he believes died early in the outbreak.
Derrick Kouri
Captain Derrick Kouri commands the Militia's Diamond Lake outpost and is second in command to Colonel Garret. Deacon meets him after saving two of his soldiers, and Kouri brings him into the Militia. He is wearing the Mongrels ring Deacon gave Sarah.
Ella Salazar
Ella Salazar, called Sal, is the bounty collector at the Militia's Wizard Island camp. She pays camp credits for the Freaker ears Deacon brings in.
Emma Whitaker
Emma Whitaker is Sarah's younger sister and Deacon's sister-in-law. She is mentioned but never seen. She stayed close to Sarah and Deacon even when the rest of the Whitaker family pulled away.
Erik Lynch
Erik Lynch, called the Lynchman, is a drifter who ran supplies for Lost Lake. He murders two camp residents and makes off with the camp's seed. He is the bounty target in Seeds For The Spring.
Gabbi Butler
Gabbi Butler is a scavenger from Iron Mike's Lost Lake camp and the twin sister of Abigail. The sisters go missing on a fishing trip, and Deacon follows their trail in the Gone Fishing job.
Glen Russell
Corporal Glen Russell is a Militia soldier at the Diamond Lake camp. You ride with him in the mission Not From Around Here. He matters more to the camp as the story goes on.