History Characters / MadFather

* CharacterDevelopment: In Blood Mode, adult Aya is shown to be very mature and empathetic, showing that despite being a killer, her experiences in the mansion did had a positive effect on her. She's very protective of Maria and speaks of Robin fondly (when, back in their youth, she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday couldn't even bother to remember him]]). Also, as a result of the nightmare she has, she has somewhat of a HeelRealization, regretting what she did to Jean and the others, and [[FaceDeathWithDignity resigns herself to whatever karmic fate the gods have in store for her]], and only asks of Maria that she be there with her when that happens.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: At the end of Blood mode, she awares of how messed up she become and decide to just resigns herself to [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty whatever karma that will hit her]].

* LackOfEmpathy: She only cares for her parents and herself. This isn't necessarily a villainous trait, but rather a sign of her emotional immaturity. Part of the game is about her learning to understand the feelings of others, such as her father's victims or Maria's devotion to him. By Blood Mode, it's {{inverted|Trope}} as she's far from being unempathetic and has begun to feel for everyone, even her victims.

* DespairEventHorizon: As the 2020 remake shows further, he hit this after murdering his mother in a fit of rage, and wander through life aimlessly as a SerialKiller before meeting Monika for the first time and finding purpose as a LivingDollCollector and a father to Aya.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The 2020 remake shows that he was unnerved with Aya's fascination with killing animals and her lack of empathy and tried many times to teach them that killing living beings for fun is wrong.

* KnightTemplarParent: He wants to make his daughter a doll to preserve her purity and innocence, to keep her from becoming like him.

* NamedInTheSequel: His name is never mentioned in the original game, but many of the Niconico fans began calling him Dio after the character from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. The name Dio stuck and [[AscendedFanon was later added to his bio]] in the endgame material but was taken away in later updates. An article in the Steam shop for Mad Father and the game files for the 2020 Remake reveal his name is Robin.

* AllThereInTheManual: Her name is never stated in-game. [[SubvertedTrope This is changed in the newest version though,]] where her mother [[SayMyName calles out her name when they are reunited.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: She is implied to have hanged herself (the room where Monika talks about her has a noose and fallen-over chair) as a result of the harassment the rest of the Drevis family gave her for opposing their LivingDollCollector tradition… assuming that the family didn’t [[NeverSuicide murder her and frame her death as a suicide,]] to keep her from exposing the families secret.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When the adult Aya sees her memories, turns out the reason Monika didn't allowed for her to be turned into a doll was so she would become an unhinged doctor like the rest of her family.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: The first time Aya meets him, he scares her off because he fails to realize that the sight of someone missing an eye might frighten a normal person. The next time he runs into Aya, he has his eye bandaged.
** Justified, as Alfred had killed him by removing his eye, but was brought back to life by Monika. It's likely he didn't realize he had died at first.

* CharacterDevelopment: In Blood Mode, adult Aya is shown to be very mature and empathetic, showing that despite being a killer, her experiences in the mansion did had a positive effect on her. She's very protective of Maria and speaks of Robin fondly (when, back in their youth, she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday couldn't even bother to remember him]]). Also, as a result of the nightmare she has, she has somewhat of a HeelRealization, regretting what she did to Jean and the others, and resigns herself to whatever karmic fate the gods have in store for her, and only asks of Maria that she be there with her when that happens.

* IntriguedByHumanity: He finds human nature very interesting and enjoys watching over humans that create or stop chaos.

A bald old man who's always seen in a curling position, mumbling about certain details about the Drevis family.

* ParentalSubstitute: In the true ending, she ends up being the only parental figure for Aya.

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An eyeless girl Aya meets in the house.

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* EyeScream: Her eyes are ''gouged out pits'' before getting new ones.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Her new eyes are a similar shade to Aya and her mother.
* NoNameGiven: Her name is never stated in-game.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Some people say her appearance resembles Viola from ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse''.[[note]]This girl, Maria and Viola are based on the same free resource sprite, hence their very similar appearances.[[/note]]

[[folder:Ines]]
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One of Dr. Drevis's test subjects. She always approaches Aya with a strange and unsettling smile.

* OverprotectiveDad: He wants to make his daughter a doll to preserve her purity and innocence, to keep her from becoming like him.

* KnifeNut: She has an aptitude for throwing them.

* AxCrazy: He murders people and turns them into dolls. He even tries to do the same to Aya.

* BadSamaritan: He lures homeless orphans into his home with a promise of food and shelter so that he can use them as test subjects for his experiments.

* IllGirl: She apparently has been rather sick since birth.

* TheBadGuyWins: In the True End, she escapes the mansion and becomes a doctor that kills people. However, the 2020 remake clarifies that she doesn't have the same LackOfEmpathy she had as a child and she doesn't enjoy it like before.

* CharacterDevelopment: In Blood Mode, adult Aya is shown to be very mature and empathetic, showing that despite being a killer, her experiences in the mansion did had a positive effect on her. She's very protective of Maria and speaks of Robin fondly (when, back in their youth, she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday couldn't even bother to remember him]]). Also, as a result of the nightmare she has, she has somewhat of a HeelRealization, regretting what she did to Jean and the others, and designs herself to whatever karmic fate the gods have in store for her, and only asks of Maria that she be there with her when that happens.

* CreepyChild: She has a fascination with death and has a disturbing lack of empathy (even her father is unnerved by it in the 2020 remake).
* DaddysGirl: Despite the awful things her father has done, Aya still wants to save him when the curse appears. Even years after his true colors revealed, she still loves him as her father but still wishes to achieve her own happiness.

* DiesWideOpen: How she is killed in the bad ending her father pose her body with [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mad-father/images/5/57/Aya_badend.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/455?cb=20150106161415 eyes open]] after he turn her into a doll.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: After she is turn into a doll.

* FaceHeelTurn: Though already unstable, the True End has her outright become a MadScientist like her father. However, in the 2016 remake, there is an extra scene in the credits showing Aya hugging a doll and saying ''"We promised, so I can't ever forget."'' The 2020 remake reveals she's talking about Robin, and not what she does to people.
* GirlyRun: Her running sprite in the remake has her hold up her arms when she runs.

* HeelRealization: At the end of Blood Mode, she ultimately comes to realize why her father wanted to turn her into a doll (to keep her from becoming like him) and that she was an UnwittingPawn to Monika who went ahead and turned into a SerialKiller just like her parents. She tells Maria that she has resigned herself to what she predicts is a karmic fate coming for her soon, and only asks Maria to be there with her when that happens.

* HollywoodGenetics: Both of her parents have brown hair, yet Aya has black hair despite brown hair is dominant.
* ImportantHaircut: As an adult, she wears her hair above shoulder-lengthed, and proves to be a very empathetic person despite being a SerialKiller like her father.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Non-romantic version. The player can choose to let Aya's mother's ghost take her father away forever so she can be with him. Alas, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished this will leave Aya at Maria's mercy who will try and complete what her father could not]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the True End, she goes on to continue her father's work, and is not shown getting any comeuppance for it. However, Blood Mode has her be tormented by a nightmare of Jean, her latest victim, and it is hinted that a karmic fate is just around the corner.

* LonelyRichKid: Played with. She comes from a wealthy family but spends her entire childhood confide in her family's property. However, she isn't lonely as she had the company of her mother, father, pet, other people who live on the Drevis property.
* MadScientist: Becomes one in the True End, concerting people into dolls just like her father did. However, this might be ambiguous.

* BadSamaritan: He picks up homeless orphans off the streets and takes them into his home, but only because he wants to use them as test subjects.

* RapunzelHair: Aya's hair reaches her waist at least, and her clone's hair is even longer. In the epilogue, she has an ImportantHaircut to show how far she matured as an adult by keeping it above shoulder-length.

* HiddenDepths: Despite his willingness to kill people in many gruesome ways to make them into dolls and preserve their beauty, he isn't entirely devoided of empathy (his genuine love for Aya aside), as seen as he treated Ines and Robin with familial kindness and adopted them into the Drevis family despite killing them later on, being capable of recognizing the pain he puts his victims through and recognizing how bad his past habit of killing animals for fun was and hope that Aya wouldn't turn out the same way.

* NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned in the game itself, but many of the Niconico fans began calling him Dio after the character from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. The name Dio stuck and [[AscendedFanon was later added to his bio]] in the endgame material but was taken away in later updates.
** An article in the Steam shop for Mad Father and the game files for the 2020 Remake reveal his name is Robin.