All side and minor characters in Train Chasers

This page includes every single character in Train Chasers that is not a main character or prominent enough to the plot to warrant their own page, but are still beloved nonetheless. (Well, most of them are...)

The Lockhart-Lewis Family

Judy Lockhart

Judy Lockhart is Kez's cousin and Portia's half sister. She first appears in chapter 9 of Train Chasers. She is in her late 20s. Judy is Portia's half sister and Kez's cousin. She is shown to be incredibly protective over Kez after her disappearance, and even forbids her to bring up anything that happened when she was gone.

Portia's sisters

Gia and London are Portia's younger sisters. They are 16 and 13 years old respectively. Gia is busy with choir and cologuard while London is occupied with science club and theatre so they are usually not seen in the Lockhart household.

The Laurent Family

Lisa Laurent

Lisa is Simon's mother. She is in her early 50s. She'd been dating various men and women since her husband died when Simon was 7 years old, which became a source of tension between them. Lisa believes as much as she loved her previous husband, she is allowed to move on and find love again if she chooses (and she's right). Simon hates the idea of anyone replacing his dad and refuses to acknowledge anyone or anything else (also fair, he was an impressionable child when he lost his dad). Lisa is aware that her husband's death and the subsequent funeral were incredibly hard on her son and tries her best to consider his feelings in this. But as Simon continues to age into adulthood, it seems her patience is wearing thin.

Joanne Dupont

Joanne is the deeply devoted fiance of Simon's mother, Lisa. She is in her early-to-mid-40s She constantly clashes with Simon and antagonizes him.

Gabriel Laurent

Gabriel is Simon's late father. He died on active duty in the military. He does not have much of a presence in Train Chaser's storyline, but it is implied he and Simon were really close before he died.

The Monroe Family

Boahemaa "Briar" Monroe

Briar is Grace's mother. She is a woman of West African Descent born and raised in the United Kingdom before she traveled to the United States to marry her husband Charles and raise their child, Grace. She and her husband are well-off diplomats. She goes by Briar in professional settings, but has yet to change her legal name because of her connection with her late mother. She and Grace have a very estranged relationship, and it worsens once Grace transfers to a new school and meets Simon Laurent (and later Ryan Akagi and Min-Gi Park). At first, Briar wanted to transfer Grace out of that school and stick to having private tutors teach her, but one of Grace's caretakers managed to convince her to let Grace be as long as she continued to do well in school and stay out of serious trouble. She still does not trust any of Grace's friends (at least the ones that Briar didn't try to force a friendship between), but as long as Grace didn't make the family look bad and she was always "seen and never heard", she could "tolerate" their presence.

Charles Monroe

Charles is Grace's father. He is an African American man who met his wife while studying abroad for his doctorate. He is even less involved in Grace's life, and prefers to maintain the idea that his daughter is the perfect little golden child they raised her to be and throw money at whatever trouble Grace causes.

The Akagi Family

Kenji Akagi

Kenji is Ryan's father. He is a mechanic. He has more of an estranged relationship with Ryan after the incident with the missing kids, where he indirectly blamed Ryan for what happened and unknowingly pushed Ryan to leave town after an argument. He does not know Ryan has come back at all.

Yui Akagi

Yui is Ryan's mother. She is a substitute teacher at the high school Ryan and Min-Gi attended. She seems to be more trusting towards Ryan and believes that as reckless/impulsive that her son can be, he'd never intentionally do anything to harm anyone, much less younger children. She was incredibly worried when she realized he'd gone missing, and did not know he had returned.

Riley Akagi

Riley is Ryan's oldest sister. She is 25 years old. She is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. She and Ryan were close growing up, and even more so when the incident happened, but could not stop him from leaving town. She currently lives in an apartment out of town. She doesn’t know the reason he left.

Ruth Akagi

Ruth is Ryan's second oldest sister. She works at the town's bowling alley. She is 24 years old. She and Ryan were also close growing up, and when the incident happened. She doesn’t know the reason he left.

Jacob and Jude Akagi

Jacob and Jude are Ryan's younger brothers and twins. They are 17 years old. Both heavily looked up to Ryan and were devastated when they found out he left. Everyday they hope to see him again. Jacob is a football player and Jacob is the president of the school’s newspaper club.

The Park Family

Ji-Hun Park

Ji-Hun is Min-Gi's father. He works as an accountant for a local business. He maintains his son's innocence in the tragic incident, believing the disappearance to be a freak accident. He can be kind of hard on Min-Gi, but he knows his son's heart is always in the right place. He is concerned when Min-Gi becomes more and more closed off and distant, but wants to give him his space to grieve and recover. He somewhat blames himself for somehow not being prepared enough to handle something like this and be there for his son.

Hana Park

Hana is Min-Gi's mother. She works as a nurse in the nearby hospital. She also believes her son is innocent and does her best to try and make him feel better after the incident, but she's usually so unsuccessful that she's overjoyed when Min-Gi seemed to be going out again and talking to people on his own (to the point where she mistakenly thought he'd started dating Portia).

The Olsen Family

Andy Olsen

Andy is the father of Tulip and Lake Olsen, and the ex-husband of Megan. Since the divorce, Andy has been trying to manage things along side Megan, but things can get mixed up in the process. He took Tulip and Lake's disappearance very hard, not even stopping by his old house to check on Megan. He hasn't been seen in months.

Megan Wasilewski

Megan is the mother of Tulip and Lake Olsen, and the ex-wife of Andy. After divorcing Andy, she returned to going by her maiden name. Since the divorce, Megan has been trying to manage things along side Andy, but things can get mixed up in the process. Due to the fact that her last conversation with Tulip was an argument before the field trip, she feels immense guilt over hers and Lake's disappearance.

The Cosay Family

Jackson Cosay

Jackson is the father of Jesse and Nate Cosay. Along with the Gomez-King fathers, he has been the most determined in trying to find out what happened to his child and his friends.

Ela Cosay

Ela is the mother of Jesse and Nate Cosay. While she does not believe Jesse's disappearance was necessarily the fault of Ryan and Min-Gi, she suspects that Jesse ran away after the incident that got Nate hurt.As much as she wants her child to come home, she worries that her husband's determination to find him is driving him mad. In the mean time, she continues to hope for her child's return .

Nate Cosay

Nate is the younger brother of Jesse Cosay. A week prior to the fated field trip, Jesse and his friends goaded Nate into doing a "man test" of sliding down a hill. Nate gets injured, and Jesse's friends mock him while Jesse watches. Jesse had been avoiding him for months. On the day of the field trip, Jesse finally spoke to Nate and told him that they would talk later. Later never came. He was understandably devastated when he found out Jesse had gone missing. He somehow blames himself for what happened.

The Agyeman-King Family

Abeeku King

Abeeku is the step-father of Mikayla Agyeman. He, along with his husband and Jackson Cosay have dedicated the past few months to searching for their missing kids. Abeeku has known Mikayla since she was 5 years old when he and Yao got married. The two are amicable with each other, but they are not as close as Mikayla and Yao are. He wishes he could've gotten closer to Mikayla before she disappeared.

Yao Agyeman

Yao is the father of Mikayla Agyeman from a previous marriage before he realized he was gay. He, along with his husband and Jackson Cosay have dedicated the past few months to searching for their missing kids. He is particulalry concerned because he'd fought really hard to get full custody of Mikayla, and felt she wasn't safe with her homophobic birth mother. With Mikayla missing, her mother's side of the family is trying to claim that Yao and Abeeku are unfit fathers.

Train Inhabitants

Samantha Mulgrew

Samantha was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. She was middle aged.

Frank Dennis

Frank was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. He was middle aged.

Randall Darby

Randall was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. He was in his mid 20's.

"Alan Dracula"

Alan Dracula was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. NOTE: Alan Dracula is not his real name, but the only name ever given. He was in his early 20s.

Atticus Hudson

Atticus was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. He was middle-aged.

Morgan Cho

Morgan was a passenger on the infinity train mentioned in the notebook Grace has. She was in her mid-20's.

Hazel Delano

Hazel is a passenger on the infinity train. She is 6 and a half years old.

Tuba Delano

Tuba was a passenger on the infinity train. She was in her late 40's. She was also Hazel's guardian at some point.

Jeremy Bradford

Jeremy was a passenger on the infinity train. He appeared to be middle-aged.

Other characters

Chloe Martin

Chloe is one of Grace's former classmates. They did not get along since elementary school and still don't to this day. She intentionally never invited Grace to a party of hers to rub it in, and Grace responded by hiring clowns to ambush her party (which Chloe is deathly afraid of). Mrs.Monroe tried to push a friendship between these two (and Chloe's other friends) but it never worked out.

Shanya Rousseau

Shanya is one of Grace's former classmates and part of Chloe's entourage. She appears to be shady, mocking Chloe's smile behind her back.

Maurice Williams

He is the bodyguard of the Monroe household. According to Grace, he is a bit of a hardass when it comes to his job.

Trudy Jones

She was Grace's main caretaker when she was younger, and the one that managed to stick around the longest despite her parents constantly hiring and firing people. She's the only adult Grace considers herself to be close to growing up. Trudy is the one that eventually got Grace to cut off her (very relaxer heavy) hair and do her hair in locs (she almost got fired for this). Grace visits her occasionally to this day despite her growing too old for a caretaker.

Susan White

Susan is the cook for the Laurent family, and has been for years. She and Simon have a good relationship. She even considers him to be like a son to him. (She'd never tell Lisa this!)

Emily Wong

Emily is Grace's girlfriend. She is 20-21 years old at the time Train Chasers begins. None of Grace's friends have met her yet, so they (namely Ryan) assume Grace is making her up.

Faith Greene

Faith is a musician in a band that performs at Joanne's charity ball.

Naomi Wu

Naomi is a musician in a band that performs at Joanne's charity ball.

Casey Davis

She is a musician in a band that performs at Joanne's charity ball.

Reign Sangster

Reign is the producer who invites Ryan to audition to take fill in when their previous client bailed on them. They are very patient but firm with Ryan.

Charlie Benoit

Charlie is Joanne's god-daughter who has a sweet 16 birthday party in Train Chasers. She seemed disappointed at not really getting a say in how her party goes.

Horace Ferguson

Horace is Min-Gi's boss at Dumpty's. He's very rude towards Min-Gi