Aidan Lynch is the playable protagonist trying to rescue his girlfriend Sunny from the Labyrinth, while Charlotte is a Scarlet Church figure whose heart becomes a target in Sunny's resurrection. The Hellraiser Revival characters are tied together by the Genesis Configuration puzzle box and Aidan's bargain with Pinhead. You meet the Church early; the relationships below include later rebirth scenes and the final payment.
Who is Aidan Lynch in Hellraiser Revival?
Aidan Lynch is Sunny's boyfriend and the character you play as he uses the Genesis Configuration to pursue her rescue.
His investigation dossier describes an affluent upbringing, unfinished medical studies and a past as an enforcer for the Hellraisers biker gang. He met Sunny while working part time as a security guard at her gallery and left the gang afterward.
Read that dossier as the Church's assessment of him. It treats his weapons experience and willingness to break the law as useful traits, but judges him too stubborn to recruit. Its recommendation to eliminate him after interrogation helps explain why the Church's welcome is so hostile.
Who is Sunny in Hellraiser Revival?
Sunny is Aidan's girlfriend, the manager of the Nova Art Gallery and the person he is trying to bring back from the Labyrinth.
Her dossier records an interest in the occult, possession of the Genesis Configuration and an obsession with opening it. The Church taps her phone and considers converting her after capture. She and Aidan are already living together when this surveillance takes place.
Later, Pinhead says her spirit has been released from the Labyrinth but still needs a physical form. Blood must be spilled where she was taken to begin that return.
Her first return is only the start of the resurrection. You can recognize this stage by her demand for more and Pinhead's instruction to seek people carrying the Configuration's mark. A visible body does not mean Aidan's bargain is finished.
Who is Charlotte in Hellraiser Revival?
Charlotte Strauss is a Scarlet Church participant prepared for a rite of rebirth, and later a target whose heart Aidan is told to claim for Sunny.
In the opening Church scene, Marlowe orders Charlotte to prepare the rite that night and praises her skill with a scalpel. Her dossier describes psychology studies at Clareport Community College and a relationship with the Serenity Park gravekeeper. The Church regards her as a candidate for ascension.
During a later ceremony, Marlowe announces that Charlotte has surrendered her humanity and that the Configuration is inside her. These scenes connect her to the Church's attempt to turn its beliefs into a physical transformation.
When Sunny's restoration begins, your objective explicitly directs you to hunt Charlotte and claim her heart. Use that objective to identify the next story target. For the route between these scenes, follow the Hellraiser Revival walkthrough.
Who are the other Hellraiser Revival characters?
Marlowe leads the Scarlet Church, Pinhead sets Aidan's bargain, and the Cenobites and Leviathan define the supernatural powers surrounding the Labyrinth.
Marlowe's followers seek the Genesis Configuration to contact the Cenobites and create a paradise of extreme sensation. When he introduces himself to Aidan, he explains that the box disappeared from the Church's possession and that they traced it to Sunny.
| Character or group | How they fit the story |
|---|---|
| Bruno | Participates in the Church's treatment of Aidan and Charlotte's rebirth ceremony. See the Hellraiser Revival Bruno page for his encounter. |
| Sister of Mercy | Becomes another heart donor in Sunny's restoration. The post-boss objective tells you to give her heart to Sunny. Use the Hellraiser Revival Sister of Mercy guide for that encounter. |
| Marlowe | Leads the Church and becomes a further heart target. Aidan tells Sunny they still need his heart. |
| Chatterer, Butterball and the Female Cenobite | Join Pinhead among the Cenobites involved in the story. |
| Leviathan | Rules the otherworldly Labyrinth. |
| The Unworthy | Former humans rejected by Leviathan who seek the Configuration as a possible path to redemption. |
The Church and the Unworthy both want the box, but for different reasons. Keeping that distinction in mind makes the competing factions easier to follow.
Who voices Pinhead in the Hellraiser Revival cast?
Doug Bradley voices Pinhead in Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival.
Pinhead's role goes beyond threatening Aidan: he defines the terms under which Sunny can return, then calls in the payment when the time comes.
When does Hellraiser Revival take place chronologically?
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival tells a new story in Hellraiser's canon.
For following this game's events, start with Sunny and Aidan using the Genesis Configuration, then follow the Church's pursuit of the box and Aidan's rescue bargain. The Hellraiser Revival story page covers the wider plot.
How do Aidan and Sunny's roles change during the rebirth bargain?
Aidan becomes the collector of flesh for Sunny's restoration, while Pinhead retains a claim on Aidan's own flesh as the price of her return.
At first, this looks like a rescue agreement: Sunny can be restored and her liberty will be hers to use. The price is already part of that same conversation. Pinhead will call on Aidan at the end, and Aidan must offer himself.
The heart objectives describe what Aidan is pursuing. They do not erase the personal payment he accepted. Keep the rescue terms and the collection targets separate when you read the later scenes.
At the final rebirth, Pinhead demands Aidan's flesh and explains that Sunny needed to partake of the chosen: any flesh would have served. Aidan supplied hearts and chose to kill. Read this as the final reveal about the bargain; it does not by itself establish an alternate playable route around those boss objectives.
You now have the link between Sunny's restoration, the Church's chosen and Aidan's payment. Continue to Hellraiser Revival endings for the ending outcomes.