History Characters / RuleOfRose

* TheUnfavorite: To Hoffman, as he'd call her name last.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Like Eleanor, he demonstrates symptoms of autism.

* ReluctantWarrior: In some of Jennifer's attacking animations, she actually ''covers her eyes'' with one hand while striking with the other. All battles in the game are initiated by someone else - frequently by them ambushing Jennifer and locking the door so she can't escape. (Though some battles can be avoided, eventually Jennifer will have to kill someone in self-defense. [[ButThouMust It's inevitable.]]) The Good ending - which is also the only canonical one - is achieved by staying true to this trope and ''not'' killing a particular enemy.

** For most of the game ([[spoiler:i.e, Jennifer's journey through her memories), she portrays Wendy as a compassionate, victimized non-entity; because Jennifer desperately wants to believe that. In this case, the exposition erases the beginning of Wendy's character arc (in which she was a very important person in Jennifer's life]]), and its end, in which Wendy was still important to her (though for '''much''' darker reasons). When young, Jennifer instinctively shied away from these truths because she couldn't reconcile them.

* AlwaysWithYou: After [[spoiler:Brown's murder]], Jennifer invokes this trope, imagining that he is still beside her. The finale plays it straight: [[spoiler:Jennifer accepts his death and moves on, but still loves him and treasures the memories they shared]].

One of the oldest orphans and higher ranking girls in the Aristocrat Club.

* TheAtoner: There's two ways to interpret her words to Jennifer in ''Stray Dog and The Lying Princess.'' Either she's desperate for leadership and desires to keep her position, [[ManipulativeBitch so she apologizes to do so...]] Or she's this, being genuinely sorry for her actions and would have made an actual attempt to make it all up to Jennifer had she [[spoiler:not been killed alongside the rest of the orphans during the massacre.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Much of her interactions with the others come off as her falsely and cruelly mimicking the energy of a kind big sister and warping it into something manipulative and vindictive. Best shown during the first rat-stick scene where she mockingly rubs a frightened Amanda's head and says "There, there, there."

* GrowingUpSucks: A complex example. The prettiest and most mature of the Aristocrats, she couldn't wait to become an adult. At the same time, though, she was afraid of what doing so would entail. She also fixated on the fantasy of being a mermaid, pure and beautiful, but as she grew older she realized that she was straying more and more from her ideal self. [[spoiler:Factor into this the strong possibility that she saw in Clara her own potential future – the eldest orphan, sexually mature, sexually ''abused'', broken, caged – and, as the second eldest, was terrified of crossing that threshold and opening herself up to that awful existence.]]

* NumberTwo: For [[spoiler:Wendy,]] although it's not immediately clear on the first play through, as you'll likely believe her to be the true leader of the club.

* RedHerring: For much of the game, she seems to be the true ring leader of the Aristocrats, with the Princess of the Red Rose being represented in cutscenes as a doll that the club seems to worship in a cult-like fashion. However, chapter 9 reveals that not only is the princess an actual person, but that she's [[spoiler:Wendy]] and Diana is just her NumberTwo. This is possibly foreshadowed by Diana's connection to fish symbolism and her red hair.

* BetaBitch: She is Diana's NumberTwo and only slightly less bitchy than Diane.

A quite and withdrawn girl who's third-in-command.

* SanitySlippage: While she wasn't the most stable person to begin with, she ''really'' starts to lose it after being outranked by Jennifer.

* BlueBlood: She uses the title "Princess", and as such she is the highest ranking character in the Club.

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Even as she's [[spoiler:overseeing Brown's murder]], she is smiling angelically and offering Jennifer flowers. [[spoiler:Whether this is an expression of her true feelings or an act she puts on to impress Jennifer is ambiguous.]]

* PragmaticVillain: She readily feigns niceness when doing so would accomplish a goal, but ultimately it's just another "tool" of hers, discarded the instant it stops being effective.

* TheSocialDarwinist: [[spoiler:Of the 'Straw Meritocrat' type, which disdains compassion and empathy. She constantly degrades Jennifer for being a "filthy" commoner, insults that are all the more hollow because Wendy is the one who decided Jennifer's rank.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: There are several scenes where Jennifer wakes up to find Wendy [[spoiler:(dressed as Joshua)]] staring at her. And touching her. As is typical of the trope, [[spoiler:Wendy tries to isolate Jennifer socially and control her by lowering her self-esteem.]]

* VagueAge: Her age is more vague than the others in that she's, from her appearance, a toddler.

* ThePigPen: He's covered in either dirt and soot, along with looking slightly more unkempt than Xavier (but a lot less unkempt than Thomas). He's not called the "Sloppy Prince" for nothing.

A withdrawn boy who prefers to spend time with his trains and likes to play pranks

* BossAlteringConsequence: [[spoiler:If you give him the gun, he will shoot himself and you will get the true ending, but if you instead fight him, you will get the bad ending]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Why exactly she was killed is ambiguous at best. The two most popular theories are that either [[spoiler:Wendy found out she tried to report Gregory to the police]] or she [[spoiler:discovered Hoffman's dead body. Thus her death was an effort to cover up his (possible) murder.]]

* BerserkButton: The ''only'' time in the entire game where she raises her voice is in a very easily missed optional scene where she'll prevent Jennifer from opening a medicine cabinet. The implication is that there's [[spoiler:some form of birth control, such as condoms or pills, or even an aborted fetus within.]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Unless you get the above mentioned optional scene where she snaps at Jennifer, she only ever speaks two words to her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: [[spoiler:Despite her status as one of the Aristocrats, both Diana and Meg [[HiddenDisdainReveal are revealed to hold her in some degree of contempt]], finding her to be a weirdo because of her quiet and stoic demeanor. This culminates in her eventually becoming a target of their bullying too, as they conspiring to kill her pet bird.]]

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Rules over the Aristocrat Club from the shadows and has them obey her every will. After her position is usurped, she still finds a way to take control...]]

** [[spoiler:Most of the orphans, out of fear and desperation, acceded to Wendy's commands and declared her their ruler. ''Big'' mistake. They may have built the club's sadistic society, but it is she who planned it.]]

* DelicateAndSickly: She's outright called the "Sick Princess" and is often confined to her bedroom due to an unspecified illness. This lonely existence is possibly why she latches so hard onto [[spoiler:Jennifer]] for being the first girl to give her any attention, [[spoiler:and why she takes it so poorly when Jennifer's attention transfers over to Brown.]]

* PsychoLesbian: She and [[spoiler:Jennifer]] vowed to love each other forever. Unfortunately, they were using... ''different'' definitions of the word 'love.'
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:She's a selfish, manipulating murderer, with an evil plan that hinges on Jennifer acting in a specific way that implies she does not understand basic human emotions.]]

Xavier's best friend and, sometimes, accomplice.

* BerserkButton: The ''only'' time in the entire game where she raises her voice is in a very easily missed optional scene where she'll prevent Jennifer from opening a medicine cabinet. The implication is that there's [[spoiler: some form of birth control, such as condoms or pills, or even an aborted fetus within.]]

* BetaBitch: She is Diana's NumberTwo and only slightly less bitchy than .

Lesser known and seen Aristocrats that aid more so in the the main Aristocrats roles or side quests.

* BetaBitch: Is only slightly less bitchy than Diana.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:For Gregory's dead son, Joshua. Gregory even seem to have deluded himself into believing that she actually ''was'' Joshua.]]

* TwentiesBobHaircut: Justified, given the time period in which the game is set, she dons this sort of haircut.
* BlueBlood: Invoked -- she uses the title "Countess."

--> I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER
--> I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER
--> Oh my! I've got to sew the rags...

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: For Gregory's dead son, Joshua.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Reading between the lines, Diana shows a lot of symptoms of what a modern psychologist may recognize as a Borderline Personality Disorder.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Eleanor doesn't make eye contact, even while bowing (she makes a point of looking to the side), does not show emotion like other people, speaks in monotone, prefers to be by herself, develops a far deeper emotional connection with an animal than she ever has with a human, and when it dies, responds in a way that seems bizarre to others (rather than crying or becoming angry, she simply substitutes her connection to the animal with a connection to the cage, which she keeps carrying around for comfort). All of these appear to be symptoms of autism (or, given how she's implied to be abandoned, Reactive Attachment Disorder).