History Characters / Lorelai

!!!'''Voiced by''': Yong Yea

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* BalefulPolymorph: It turns out that this is one of the Queen of Maggots' powers when she captures Jimmy and transforms him into a crow, locking him in a cage as punishment for interfering with her plans for Lorelai. She messes with his mind as well, giving him the insatiable urge to eat fertilizer and making him believe that perfectly edible pumpkins are filled with blood. This ends up being a trap for Lorelai, as Jimmy will beg her to feed him the fertilizer when she encounters him. The player can choose to do so, or they can simply walk away and ignore his cries. [[spoiler: If you feed him three times, he will explode...and so will his human body in the real world, leaving Lorelai to discover the mangled pieces later.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Jimmy is transformed into a crow and caged by the Queen of Maggots. She also does a number on his mind, giving him the insatiable urge to eat dangerous fertilizer and making him think that he's been trapped for years and years, while barely any time at all has passed for Lorelai.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: John meets his end when Lorelai stabs him in the neck with a broken bottle, which is exactly how he killed her the first time.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: When she isn't having to deal with extremely awful situations (which is most of the game) and can act more relaxed and like herself, Lorelai comes across as this. This is most apparent in the care home montage.

* {{Adorkable}}: Zack is shown to be pretty awkward at times but in an endearing way.

* FlowersInHerHair: Lorelai wears two roses in her hair and has done so for several years, based on the flashbacks we see.

-->'''Lorelai:''' You're too old for babies. What were you even thinking? Look...I love Bethany. I'm glad that she's here. But YOU should have known better!

* DreamWalker: Jimmy explains to Lorelai that he's been able to enter into other people's dreams while he sleeps ever since he was a child. It was fun at first...until one day, he accidentally traveled to the Queen of Maggots' realm. He hasn't been able to wake up since, which is bad news for his human body back in the real world.

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: In the best possible ending, Lorelai and Zack get together and commit to taking care of Bethany together. She presumably has a much better life with them than she would have had with her actual parents.]]

Bethany is Miranda and John's baby daughter, as well as Lorelai's half-sister. Lorelai comes home from her first day of work only to find that she's fallen out of her crib with no one being the wiser, which makes her all the more determined to take her sister away from a life of neglect, if not outright abuse. As the night goes on, this vow becomes a much more dire life-or-death situation, as Lorelai must return from the afterlife in time to save Bethany from being murdered by her own father.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Miranda commits suicide by hanging herself in the bathroom at the end of the game's first chapter, kicking off the main plot. She still appears regularly in both the real world and the afterlife as a corpse throughout the rest of the story, allowing Lorelai to sadly reflect at several points.]]

The protagonist/playable character of the game, Lorelai is a young woman who has a difficult home life and dreams of escaping with her little sister, far away from [[AbusiveParents her abusive stepfather and vacant mother]]. When tragedy strikes unexpectedly, she finds herself in a surreal afterlife and embarks on a journey to return to the real world, get revenge on those who have wronged her, and rescue the people she cares about.

The Queen of Maggots is the only character to appear in a prominent role throughout the Devil Came Through Here trilogy. When Lorelai is murdered, she unexpectedly welcomes her into her otherworldly realm and gives her a chance to return to life and have her revenge. However, what she offers doesn't come without a price, and her motives may not be as benevolent as they first appear...

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Basically, Al had a moment like this that led to him trying to get his life back on track. [[spoiler: He often argued with his girlfriend/fiancé about his drinking habits, which led to him losing his temper and hitting her hard enough that her lip burst and she fell, covered in blood. It turned out she was actually pregnant and ended up miscarrying as a result of the impact. She left him the very next day.]]

* PlayingBothSides: While never explicitly confirmed in the game, it's very possible that the Queen of Maggots was doing this with [[spoiler: Lorelai and John, considering that he somehow survives being stabbed, serious blunt force trauma to the head, and being ''crushed by a shipping container''. If she ''was'' reviving him, that certainly made it much easier for her to push Lorelai to the breaking point and keep her desperate enough to go along with Queen of Maggots' wishes. It's notable that he only stays dead after Lorelai kills the Queen of Maggots as well.]]

* MadeOfIron: John survives some pretty intense injuries, including [[spoiler: being stabbed in the back, having his head slammed into a toilet seat, and being crushed by a shipping container. This can be somewhat explained by him being a veteran who's experienced in combat, although one popular theory is that he had help from the Queen of Maggots too.]]

* UnexplainedAccent: The Queen of Maggots has an unique accent that's hard to pin down. The most common
interpretation is that she sounds German or Austrian. There's never any reason given for why she has an accent in the first place.

* UnexplainedAccent: The Queen of Maggots has an unique accent that's hard to pin down. The most common interpretation is that she sounds German or Austrian. There's never any reason given for why she has an accent in the first place.

* Non-Linear Character: [[spoiler: As revealed by Jimmy, the Queen of Maggots already knew that Lorelai would die again before she even sent her back the first time, which strongly suggests that this trope fits her. There are a few other small hints that she's aware of the future (or at least possible versions of it), such as when she refers to Zack as Lorelai's "boyfriend-to-be."]]

-->'''Queen of Maggots:''' Perhaps you are stronger than them. When someone's will is strong enough, even death cannot stop them.
-->'''Lorelai:''' I think you are REALLY overestimating who I am, strange lady...

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