Honcho - DOORS 👁

Honcho appears as a flat humanoid creature seemingly made of paper (or possibly cardboard) wearing a light blue casual with a white collar and sleeves seemingly rolled up, a blue tie, dark blue pants held up by brown straps, and brown shoes. It also has visible staples on its arms, likely resembling cartoonish arm hair. The limbs and torso can also bend and lightly fold in defining angles and are able to express flexible movements. Its legs are notably either folded horizontally inward, or have a piece attached behind it by the middle, likely for the entity to keep balance.

Its most prominent feature is its face and/or head, being a distinctive black square with choppy edges, giving it a foggy-like appearance, mainly resembling the redaction bars seen in documents. They are likely to be always facing the screen of the player and may appear animated. This could be covering its actual face and/or head, or that it is its head and is actually otherwise a physical manifestation of redaction, suggesting Honcho's role akin to reviewing and redacting documents.

In its old design, which was discovered through an accidental leak on October 2025, it only bared small changes with its outfit, having brown pants without straps but instead tied with a black belt. It also had visible pockets on the left side of its shirt and both side of its pants. Its head is a black square formed by smaller ones which fade around it. Its outfit was likely adjusted to fit more with the cooler tone of The Archives.

Occasionally, when the player reaches the end of a sector, the elevator to the next sector will be overridden, which can happen as early as A-50. Taking the elevator will lead the player to Honcho's executive office where he resides. Walking up to the desk will play a cutscene where Honcho tells the player to sort boxes and throws the player down a pit. He will then jump down the pit and chase the player as they stack boxes of correct numbers. If you finish the boss fight before Honcho arrives, a cutscene will play where Honcho grabs the player and smashes them through the floor, letting the player continue their run.

Its name comes from the term 'head honcho', which refers to a high ranking person in charge of something (for example, an office or company), excluding 'head' as most likely due to its head being missing or redacted. With this in mind, it is possible that Honcho runs The Archives to some extent, albeit this is only speculation at the moment. Honcho is the first entity to have an Item Skin related to it before it is even released to the game. The mug also officially reveals the back of it. It is one of the first entities to have an official render made by the developers outside of the wiki, alongside Ransom and another entity that was partly cropped. However, both Ransom and the other entity may be excluded as the former's render is simply its pre-existing assets from The Rooms without any adjustments, and the latter only seemingly being a partly cropped screenshot that was likely intended to only be used for the teaser, leaving Honcho the first and only entity to have a proper render. Honcho seems to have drawn-on stars on its arms that wasn't there when The Archives subfloor was still in development (old design being introduced in an accidental leak and the current design, the design without said stars) Honcho can be given a starlight bottle. Honcho will take the bottle and drink it. Some places in his arms will glow yellow as a symbol of curious light. If you complete honcho after this it will result in the badge "Star Employee".