Escape Academy 2 gives the school a faculty, a student body, and a founding mythology that the story is slowly digging into. This page lists the characters whose names and roles are confirmed in published material.
| Character | Role |
|---|---|
| Solange | The Academy’s Director and a Master Escapist. She admits new students, hands out locker keys and orientation checklists, and is the one who invited Professor Chortkoff to teach performing arts. She is also the person who lets you move the story forward after the beach in Chapter 6. |
| Professor Von Bellini | Head of the Science Campus. Introduced in Chapter 2 and the chapter’s main assignment-giver: the Puzzle Factory materials list, the Weather Tower instruments, and the ship sequence in Von Boyage. He is the character the game circles back to, and Chapter 7 is explicitly about further mysteries around him. |
| Professor Enora Chortkoff | Head of the Arts Campus. Her teaching style is described as strict well beyond measure. Ten years earlier, Jacob Surovskey’s play The Death of the Artist was a disaster and shattered her confidence; Solange invited her to teach performing arts afterwards. She runs the theater auditions and the theatrical murder mystery. |
| Professor Bonilla | Biology and chemistry. Sets the animal-record and food-chain experiment in the Biology Lab, then the memory-gas synthesis in the Chemistry Lab. |
| Professor Jeberson | Humanities. Runs the library’s banned-book assignment, the lecture hall exam, and the museum restoration. Issues the crowbar permit. |
| Professor Slip | Dean of Infiltration and Trap Craft. You meet him in the costume shop on the Arts Campus, where the fabric puzzle and the cape repair happen. |
Quanty is the Academy’s AI, and he is the character with the most trophies attached to him. He talks with sarcastic commentary, he gives assignments in the library and the dance studio, and the reboot puzzle in Chapter 6 is called Quanty: Rebooted because you literally pick him up and slot him into a Personality Driver. The collectible trophy Quanty Superposition requires you to find all 11 versions of Quanty scattered across the four campus wings — he is a terminal in the library, a screen in the dorm, a projection in the gardens, and so on. Meeting every one of them is a checklist in itself, and the only reliable way to find them is to talk to every terminal and student you pass.
The Arts Campus has a whole roster of performers with punning names, and the auditions mechanic means you sort them into "Pretty Rough" and "Got the Stuff" before casting roles. The rejects are Phoebe Geebys, Brenda Flops, Garth Dolomew and Vincent VanStop; the accepts are Link Lockin, Edie Quill, Debra Cadabra and Tyler Vouch. Roles then go to Tyler Vouch as Peter, Link Lockin as Chet, Debra Cadabra as Ruby and Edie Quill as the Detective. The murder you investigate is of Peter Hintz, and the person you ultimately accuse is Chet Badman — not Ruby.
Three names run through every historical puzzle in the game: Reina Wym, Fernando Augustin and Alistair Bell. Their portraits are on the walls of the main building and their names appear in the dormitory suit puzzle, the library's banned books and the museum exhibits — and their three faces form the puzzle that starts the whole game.
The full shape of the conspiracy comes out in the Second Chamber: the founders had already run the Academy for 35 years and were growing old, afraid the school would fall apart without them. Alistair — described here as a man of science — sought a solution and invited the others to meet during the Brain Storm, claiming to have an invention that would change everything. The first chamber supplies the origin: in 1783, Sameer Gaspard found an ancient Escapist tablet in Greece describing a method using brains and lightning to achieve immortality.
The other 2022 original touchstones worth knowing: Coach Yoach, who is your host for the Tournament of Puzzles update, and Eel, the character at the heart of two of the original’s hardest rooms and of the sequel’s punning easter egg.