History Characters / BlasphemousII

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[[Characters/{{Blasphemous}} Click here]] to see his entry from the first game.

* BigGood: She is the biggest force of good in the world in Blasphemous 2, guiding the Penitent one to stop Eviterno and the new son of the Miracle. [[spoiler: In Ending A, the good one, she stays at the side of the Penitent One when the four envoys are there to take him to the true Heaven beyond the Dream, past the Eternal Procession. Moments later she is there in Heaven adoring the Penitent One along with all the good characters from the first game and this sequel, sans Crisanta.]]

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Divine or otherworldly entities connected with the Miracle inevitably have some form of ironic punishment or BodyHorror going on with them. In contrast, Anunciada looks like a ''normal angel'', but that only makes her stand out amidst everyone else you interact with. And sure enough, she's treated as operating outside of the Miracle, and is very direct in encouraging the Penitent One to oppose its latest schemes. [[spoiler: In Ending A she also brings the deceased Penitent One to a conventional heaven setting, reuniting him with his allies from the original game.]]

A former thief by necessity that was traumatized and repulsed after stealing from an elderly woman that he found dead and alone in her home. After feeling overwhelmed by guilt and witnessing true death and decay, The Miracle deformed him and he cloistered himself behind some bars out of shame. He is a special vendor in Streets of Wakes that will sell, among other things, NPC quest rewards if quests are failed or done incorrectly.

* TheAtoner: His whole life after that experience has been reclusion, atonement and self hatred for defiling the corpse of a woman who died alone. Despite this he is more than happy to help you and sell all the things he gathered over the years. He will also sell you a key to expose a fake saint if you bowed to that particular NPC, failing the secret mini-quest. He may have been a thief but he despises dishonesty and liars. [[spoiler: After buying all of his items, including his late game restock, he will ask you a favor, return the pendant of that woman to the house where she resided in the City of the Blessed name. It gives no rewards but some new dialogue with his eternal thanks before resolving to die alone.]]

* TheUnseen: He is only heard behind those bars, never seen, as he claims to be now deformed and too repulsive to look at and after his epiphany he is resolved to die in solutide for his crimes.

The spirits of a pair of long dead elderly siblings still engaged in an inheritance dispute.

* MeaningfulName: Doubling as PunnyName. Cástula is the name of the tunic with a underbreast sash used by women in Ancient Rome. As a name it also means "chaste woman" from spanish "Casta" and Cástula makes a mockery of her parents giving her the name, suggesting she had many lovers. Trifón is the name of a saint that died after being tortured by the romans. Trifón on the other hands comes from greek "Tryphe" which means "delicate" though the name is more in reference to a young Saint martyr who was persecuted and harrassed by the romans in the 3rd Century. Cástula has a roman origin name and won't stop pestering him with unfounded accusations. Funnily enough in spanish culture, literature and specially 20th century early comics is kind of a common joke to name a character suffering childish annoyances or bad luck after persecuted saints or martyrs from the religious persecutions in Rome or classic greek myth.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Each time you enter their room, one of the two siblings is alive while the other is dead, though each living sibling treats the dead one as though they were merely being sullenly silent.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Each percieves themself as alive and denies the death of the other. While [[MindScrew the ways of The Miracle are twisted indeed]], it's safe to say that both are actually dead ''and'' haunting the same room, but neither can percieve the other.

* MeaningfulName: Cesáreo, meaning "Caesar-like" comes from "César" (Caesar) though it ends in a male suffix and sounds incredibly similar to the the female form "Cesárea" (a C-Section), a type of surgery that historically was considered a risky move to save a difficult childbirth.
* ShoutOut: He is based on a portrait of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Ventura_with_Her_Husband_and_Son "Magdalena Ventura with her husband and son"]] by José de Ribera. A real life bearded woman from Italy that suddenly started growing a beard at 37 years of age. The portrait depicts her at 52.

* BlackCloak: All but two of them wear dark cobija which completely swaddle them save for some of them having one eye left uncovered.
* CreepyGood: They are all tall AmbiguouslyHuman individuals wrapped entirely in black or white robes with only one large eye visible on their faces, plus they speak in creepy whispering voices. However they are entirely friendly and will happily thank the Penitent One when rescued while offering extremely useful upgrades to his Prie Dieu shrines in exchange for some money.

* GottaCatchThemAll: There are 9 sisters missing all across the land in hidden zones. A good clue that there's one in the area around the Penitent One is a faint whispering noise coming from a nearby wall.
* RegeneratingHealth: Finding all of the wayward sisters will cause the Cobijada Mayor to sell the Penitent One an altarpiece figurine of herself that grants him a slow passive health regeneration ability when equipped.

[[Characters/{{Blasphemous}} Click here]] to see her entry from the first game.

A Cardinal in a confessor booth in the cathedral of the City of the Blessed Name. He acts as the only "confessor statue" in the sequel and has a gentle and kind demeanor.

* DeathOfPersonality: Should the Penitent one reach the third stage of his quest by clearing his own guilt several times, equal to paying an amount close to 30 thousand tears of atonement then ''something'' will take over the body of the confessor. Upon entering you will find the flowers that were sprouting have withered and burned along with the veil of the confessionary. The new presence will then assure in the voice of the old man that the confessor is unharmed and that you awakened him by gathering so much guilt, giving you the Confessor Remembrance after that to honor the man. This new entity will ask you to feed them even more guilt as he insatiable.
* EmpathicHealer: In order to purge the Penitent One of Guilt, he has to first absorb his Guilt and then expurgate it in the form of [[GreenThumb causing lily flowers made out of Guilt to grow on his long robe]]. Each time he does it is a little more taxing than the last, however, and eventually something happens to him that pushes him over the edge and causes his body to become possessed by an unknown entity.

* AlmostDeadGuy: Exaggerated: the apparently will not - or cannot - die until her five daughters' candles are found and snuffed. Nor does she seem terribly perturbed by her her condition, though she does need to summon you into her dreamworld before she can actually speak with you.
* DyingCandle: She asks the Penitent One to invoke this upon her five daughters who are scattered across the land with candles at the foot of the beds they are found lying in. Blowing out the candle will cause the daughter to vanish, presumably because she has been released from the mortal coil or was already dead but somehow trapped in limbo.
* NayTheist: Bizarrely given the setting, her final lines express scorn for people who look to a higher power for punishment and forgiveness rather than seeking atonement and redemption from within themselves.
* OffingTheOffspring: What she indirectly orders the Penitant One to do before he can participate in her surreal battle challenges. This may be a MercyKill, but given the [[AbusiveParents abusive nature of her literary inspiration]] (see ShoutOut below), TakingYouWithMe seems more likely.
* ShoutOut: To Theatre/LaCasaDeBernardaAlba (The House of Bernarda Alba) by Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca. She is literary the titular character Bernarda Alba and quotes her lines when starting an arena challenge. Bernarda Alba was a woman who widows for a second time at 60 and tyranically forces her own family and 5 daughters into a long grueling grief and isolation that lasts 8 years, dragging them down with her. A criticism on totalitarianism and enforcing your conservative morality and worldview on others while ignoring reality and their needs.

** During the first phase, Eviterno constantly teleports away while pelting the player with fireballs, not unlike [[Characters/CastlevaniaDracula a certain Count]] from [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} another]] {{Metroidvania}}.

* EtherealWhiteDress: She is a woman wearing a ''mantilla'' veil (used to denote a religious woman in Spain) as well as a white dress, which denotes both her otherworldly nature as a ghost carrying her own desiccated body, and her status as a member of the Confraternity of Endless Orison (i.e. prayer).

* TheUndead: She is her own ghost animating a Penitent-looking sheet while holding her own mummified corpse.

* MeaningfulName: Sínodo (lit. "Synod") means a Church council that presides over dogma or religious law, and includes high-ranked members like bishops, archbishops, and cardinals besides the Pope. While priests and nuns of lower rank are part of this council, they are only witnesses witnesses. Fittingly, Sinodo is an amalgamation of bishop and cardinal faces on a body that has one of its main faces resemble the real-life deceased Pope [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI Benedict XVI]].

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* MeaningfulName: Lesmes means "Noble Protector", and he closely protects Infanta, whose name means "Child".

* ShoutOut: They are based on Francisco de Goya's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Old_Ones_Eating_Soup "Two Old Ones Eating soup"]] and as such their designs, specially Trifón's [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Viejos_comiendo_sopa.jpg are based on the pair]].

* FightingYourGod: Sort of. He is the incarnation of Cvstodia's belief and devotion to the Miracle, not the Miracle itself; his dialogue suggests that he was expecting the [[FightingYourGod now dead High Wills]] to be there at his birth.
* FinalBoss: It is the final obstacle the Penintent One has to face in his quest.

* TheQuietOne: Unlike the other Penitents, Odon doesn't say a word. His helmet has a gag ball-looking grill for a mouthpiece.