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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Whereas the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 era games used the JSL romanization, this game uses the Hepburn romanization and spells her name as "Ose." The fandom tends to use the JSL romanization, "Ouse", instead.

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Whereas the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 era games used the JSL romanization, this game uses the Hepburn romanization and spells her name as "Ose." The fandom tends to use the JSL romanization, "Ouse", instead.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when confronting Yuri for the first time near the end of the Second Drop.
-->You have seen too much. You cannot leave this mountain.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Kyozo killing her lover caused her to go to Mt. Hikami to commit suicide, and she did so via [[HangingAround self-hanging]].

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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
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Kyozo killing her lover caused her to go to Mt. Hikami to commit suicide, and she did so via [[HangingAround self-hanging]].self-hanging]].
** As a hostile spirit, she [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forces living people she encounters to die in the same fashion she did]], successfully with Tomoki Harakawa the inn owner and attempted on Rui (but failed due to Ren's efforts).
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[[folder: Shino Kururugi]]
!!Japanese: 枢木志乃 ''Kururugi Shino''

Sister of Kyozo Kururugi, she was in love with a man, but Kyozo killed the man in question. Traumatized by this incident, she went to Mt. Hikami to kill herself and succeeded in doing so. When the Black Water corrupted Mt. Hikami, she was among the hostile spirits roaming about in the mountain.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Kyozo killing her lover caused her to go to Mt. Hikami to commit suicide, and she did so via [[HangingAround self-hanging]].
* HangingAround: How she offed herself. Her hostile spirit still has the noose around her neck.
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* CantCatchUp: Averted. Unlike Kei, he's every bit as strong as Yuri and Miu, despite being a man.

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* CantCatchUp: Averted. Unlike Kei, he's every bit Ren's sixth sense is as strong as Yuri and Miu, despite being a man.Miu's, owing to his shared bloodline with Kunihiko Asou himself.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Yuri at some point uses the Glance on her, pissing Miu off enough to Glance her back, warning her to ''never'' do that again.

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* WhatTheHellHero: When Yuri at some point first rescues Miu, she uses the Glance on her, pissing Miu off enough to Glance her back, warning her to ''never'' do that again.



* ILetGwenStacyDie: She is tormented by the suicide of Akari Narumi, and it is because of this that she has vowed to never let someone die on her watch again.

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* ILetGwenStacyDie: She is tormented by the suicide of Akari Narumi, and it is because of this that she has vowed to never let someone die on her watch again. [[spoiler:She can end up suffering this ''again'' if Yuri's bad ending is attained, where the latter ends up killing herself alongside Ouse.]]



* VirginSacrifice: Yuri finds her in a black box in a shrine far off the lake. [[spoiler:Hisoka survives.]]

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* VirginSacrifice: Yuri finds her in a black box in a shrine far off the lake. [[spoiler:Hisoka [[spoiler:Thankfully, Yuri gets to her in time, and Hisoka survives.]]


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* AssholeVictim: With his actions, he is easily among the least sympathetic of the victims of Mt. Hikami.


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* {{Jerkass}}: Kyozo was ''not'' a nice person, who indirectly caused his sister's death with what he did to her lover, and eventually [[spoiler:went on a horrific murder spree entirely out of paranoia of having his secrets revealed.]]


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* RecurringElement: They serve as the game's ceremony masters who oversee the setting's main ritual.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: She can make her summoned Dolls to look exactly like her, and they can simultaneously run towards the player character.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:In both of Yuri's endings, her sympathy for Ose and the pain she experienced are enough to calm her and lift the curse off of Mt Hikami.]]

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* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:In both of Yuri's endings, her sympathy for Ose and the pain she experienced are enough to calm her and lift the curse off of Mt Mt. Hikami.]]



* GrowingUpSucks: Following his spirit at Mt Hikami, Kunihiko can be heard lamenting how he fully believed in a world that was beyond the natural and was filled with things that couldn't easily be seen, but stopped believing in it as he grew up. But since he devoted his life to researching the supernatural, he obtained his old view of the world again.

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* GrowingUpSucks: Following his spirit at Mt Mt. Hikami, Kunihiko can be heard lamenting how he fully believed in a world that was beyond the natural and was filled with things that couldn't easily be seen, but stopped believing in it as he grew up. But since he devoted his life to researching the supernatural, he obtained his old view of the world again.



After losing her family to a flood, she gained a strong sixth sense. Eventually, she was chosen to be a Great Pillar for the Black Lake, in order to appease the Shadowspring at Mt Hikami.

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After losing her family to a flood, she gained a strong sixth sense. Eventually, she was chosen to be a Great Pillar for the Black Lake, in order to appease the Shadowspring at Mt Mt. Hikami.



Watarai is a half-Japanese folklorist from England. He eventually moved to a house on Mt Hikami. After his sudden disappearance and death, his house became a legend in the village and is said to appear and disappear with the fog. He appears as the hostile ghost Boxed Man.

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Watarai is a half-Japanese folklorist from England. He eventually moved to a house on Mt Mt. Hikami. After his sudden disappearance and death, his house became a legend in the village and is said to appear and disappear with the fog. He appears as the hostile ghost Boxed Man.



* CuriosityKilledTheCast: His interest in Mt Hikami's rituals eventually led to his death.

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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: His interest in Mt Mt. Hikami's rituals eventually led to his death.



Kyozo once went to Mt Hikami in order to end his life, [[spoiler:but he panicked when one of the shrine maiden's gaze seemed to look into his soul. He fled in fear, but became enraged of her trying to see his secrets and returned to the mountain, killing every shrine maiden.]]

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Kyozo once went to Mt Mt. Hikami in order to end his life, [[spoiler:but he panicked when one of the shrine maiden's gaze seemed to look into his soul. He fled in fear, but became enraged of her trying to see his secrets and returned to the mountain, killing every shrine maiden.]]



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Kyozo didn't know that killing the shrine maidens was one of the factors that caused Ose's ritual to fail, resulting in Mt Hikami being cursed. The fact that he killed the Flamekeepers that were keeping the holy fire aflame which might at least have slowed down or locally restricted the curse certainly didn't help either.]]

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Kyozo didn't know that killing the shrine maidens was one of the factors that caused Ose's ritual to fail, resulting in Mt Mt. Hikami being cursed. The fact that he killed the Flamekeepers that were keeping the holy fire aflame which might at least have slowed down or locally restricted the curse certainly didn't help either.]]



A group of shrine maidens that lived on Mt Hikami. Their duty was to use their powers to allow people to commit suicide without any of their past burdens and see all of their selves.

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A group of shrine maidens that lived on Mt Mt. Hikami. Their duty was to use their powers to allow people to commit suicide without any of their past burdens and see all of their selves.



A pair of old high priestesses that oversaw the rituals at Mt Hikami. One was in charge of performing the post-mortem marriages and the other oversaw the sinking of the boxes into the Shadowspring.

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A pair of old high priestesses that oversaw the rituals at Mt Mt. Hikami. One was in charge of performing the post-mortem marriages and the other oversaw the sinking of the boxes into the Shadowspring.
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[[folder: FlameKeepers]]

A group of shrine priests who were in charge of keeping the sacred flame of Mt. Hikami alight as a deterrent against the Black Water curse should the Shadowspring ritual fail, they were entirely massacred [[spoiler:in Kururugi's murder rampage in his return trip to the mountain]].

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Flamekeepers]]

A group of shrine priests who were in charge of keeping the sacred flame of Mt. Hikami alight as a deterrent against the Black Water curse should the Shadowspring ritual fail, they were entirely massacred [[spoiler:in Kururugi's murder rampage in during his return trip to the mountain]].



* FacelessGoons: The veil that they wear as part of their uniform covers their faces.

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* FacelessGoons: The veil that they wear as part of their uniform covers conceals their faces.
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* FacelessGoon: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The veil that they wear as part of their uniform covers their faces.

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* FacelessGoon: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. FacelessGoons: The veil that they wear as part of their uniform covers their faces.

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[[folder: Tall Woman]]
!!Japanese: 背の高い女 ''Senotakai On'na''
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->''"You'd better get used to me."''

A ''very'' tall, incredibly terrifying, outright malevolent, and completely mysterious ghost woman who occasionally pops up to harass Yuri, Miu, and Ren. Based off the Japanese story of Hachishaku-sama, the Eight-Feet Tall Lady.

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[[folder: Tall Woman]]
!!Japanese: 背の高い女 ''Senotakai On'na''
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->''"You'd better get used to me."''

FlameKeepers]]

A ''very'' tall, incredibly terrifying, outright malevolent, and completely mysterious ghost woman group of shrine priests who occasionally pops up to harass Yuri, Miu, and Ren. Based off were in charge of keeping the Japanese story sacred flame of Hachishaku-sama, Mt. Hikami alight as a deterrent against the Eight-Feet Tall Lady.Black Water curse should the Shadowspring ritual fail, they were entirely massacred [[spoiler:in Kururugi's murder rampage in his return trip to the mountain]].



* FacelessGoon: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The veil that they wear as part of their uniform covers their faces.
* PlayingWithFire: They can launch ethereal fires that home in on the player with their staff.
* RecurringElement: They serve as this game's equivalent to [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the headless priests]] and [[VideoGame/FatalFrameII the veiled priests]], with them wielding a staff each and [[PlayingWithFire launching homing ethereal fires]] being similar to the veiled priests (and one of the headless priests) as well.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: More "touch" than "shoot". When battling [[DualBoss two]] or [[WolfpackBoss three]] Flamekeepers at a time, upon defeating one, his teammate(s) may revive the downed one before he fades away, at which point the player can [[OneHitKill perform Fatal Glance on the Flamekeeper trying to attempt the revival to take him out with one touch]].
* WarriorMonk: They're hostile spirits of Mt. Hikami shrine priests that the playable character must battle and defeat to proceed.
* WolfpackBoss: The player fights three spirits of the Flamekeepers at a time late in the story.
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[[folder: Tall Woman]]
!!Japanese: 背の高い女 ''Senotakai On'na''
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->''"You'd better get used to me."''

A ''very'' tall, incredibly terrifying, outright malevolent, and completely mysterious ghost woman who occasionally pops up to harass Yuri, Miu, and Ren. Based off the Japanese story of Hachishaku-sama, the Eight-Feet Tall Lady.
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** The ghosts of the Flamekeepers, monks that kept the sacred flame lit in life, serve as this game's equivalent to [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the headless priests]] and [[VideoGame/FatalFrameII the veiled priests]], with them wielding a staff each and launching homing ethereal fires being similar to the veiled priests (and one of the headless priests) as well.



* ShootTheMedicFirst: More "touch" than "shoot". When battling [[DualBoss two]] or [[WolfpackBoss three]] Flamekeepers at a time, upon defeating one, his teammate(s) may revive the downed one before he fades away, at which point the player can [[OneHitKill perform Fatal Glance on the Flamekeeper trying to attempt the revival to take him out with one touch]].



** The player fights three spirits of the Flamekeepers at a time late in the story.

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