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* ZeroEffortBoss: "Spirit Thomas"crushes him with a giant cupboard, and that is it.
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* SirSwearsALot: Curses a ''lot'', much like his host.


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* SirSwearsALot: Curses a ton, though given the circumstances we see him in, that's understandable.
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* EnfantTerrible: Notes strewn about [[spoiler:Henry's inner world]] suggest that as a kid, Thomas [[spoiler:racked up quite a bodycount of the Soviet scientists that experimented on him.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He turned his father in for stealing meat, which at the time was punishable for death.]]

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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He turned his father in for stealing meat, which at the time was punishable for death.]]]] The incident is what caused Security Service to recruit him.

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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marianne_portrait.jpg]]



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A little girl who has been haunting the Niwa for an undetermined amount of time. She serves as Marianne's first ally.

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A little girl who has been haunting the Niwa for an undetermined amount of time. She serves as Marianne's first ally.



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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He's Marianne's father.]]



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An agent working for the Polish government that was sent to hunt down Thomas Rekowicz in the past.

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An agent working for the Polish government that government, who was sent to hunt down Thomas Rekowicz in the past.
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* CopCriminalFamily: In his youth, he was a police officer, [[spoiler:while his father was keeping high-quality meat away from people.]] Given the times, neither was really a "good guy", though.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He turned his father in for stealing meat, which at the time was punishable for death.]]

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* AntropomorphicPersonification: Of [[spoiler:Richard's obsession with Lily.]]




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* CanisMajor: It's enormous; the ground shakes when it walks around.
* HellIsThatNoise: Announces its presence with ear-splitting howls.

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* EscapedFromTheLab: [[spoiler:When he was eighteen, he fled a Soviet lab he was being experimented upon. Apparently, he caused a carnage on his way out.]]

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* EscapedFromTheLab: [[spoiler:When he was eighteen, he fled a Soviet lab he was being experimented upon.upon in. Apparently, he caused a carnage on his way out.]]


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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: [[spoiler:He was experimented on as a child, first by Nazis, then by Soviets. He managed to escape and lay low at eighteen.]]

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!!Henry Wilk

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!!Henry !!Henry/Henryk Wilk


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* DubNameChange: Henryk in Polish.
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* TouchTelepathy: His powers require physical skin-to-skin contact with his target [[spoiler:as Henry finds out when he grabs him by the neck with his bare hand.]]
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* EscapedFromTheLab: [[spoiler:When he was eighteen, he fled a Soviet lab he was being experimented upon. Apparently, he caused a carnage on his way out.]]


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* TortureTechnician: His flashback begins with him [[spoiler:tortuing Thomas for information]], and he mentions that he "knows how to make men hurt", implying this isn't his first rodeo.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Averted; his employers, the Security Service, were a real cold-war era counter-intelligence and internal security organization.


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* SecretPolice: He's an agent of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(Poland) Security Service]], which was this under communist rule.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: [[spoiler:The gameplay leading up to Richard finding Rose's body leaves clues that Rose may have actually been Jewish, such as the Star of David randomly sitting on a bench.]]
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* PatrioticFervor: Henry is so dedicated to his country, that he repeatedly calls others "comrade" and [[spoiler:turned in his father to the authorities for deliberately keeping high quality meat away from the people.]]
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* InkSuitActor: His appearance is almost identical to his mo-cap actor, Marcin Dorociński.
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* NightmareFuelGasStationAttendant: As the BigBad, its very presence alone is a constant source of NightmareFuel.

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* NightmareFuelGasStationAttendant: NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As the BigBad, its very presence alone is a constant source of NightmareFuel.

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[[folder:The Hound]]
--->'''Voiced by:''' Vincent Lai (English)

A monster coming from [[spoiler:Henry Wilk]].
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* SavageWolves: Its got canine features and is highly aggressive.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Thomas is nowhere to be seen in the game's present day. Not even his spirit self knows where he is or if he's even alive.]]



* MeaningfulName: His surname means "wolf".

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* MeaningfulName: His surname means "wolf". [[spoiler:The monster that comes from him is called "The Hound".]]
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* BigBad: The Maw is considered the "main" monster [[spoiler:and its existence is ultimately why Marianne was called to Niwa.]]


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* NightmareFuelGasStationAttendant: As the BigBad, its very presence alone is a constant source of NightmareFuel.
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* BigSisterInstinct: [[spoiler:Initially averted. She used to blame Marianne for the death of their mother, but the fire that destroyed their home made her turn a new leaf. Come the end of the game, any hostility she had of Marianne is completely gone, even going as far as to hug her.]]


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* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:She tried killing herself in the past to prevent the Maw from getting loose, but the Maw wouldn't let her die. She tries to get Marianne to kill her instead, [[AmbiguousEnding with ambiguous results]].]]
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* ApocalypticLog: His phone calls back to base have left spiritual echoes on Niwa's public phones, leaving a trail serving as this.

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* HandBlast: She can collect spiritual energy of positive memories in her left hand, and blast it to power various devices.



* LightIsGood: Uses positive emotions, in the form of white light, and is unambiguously a good person.



* BadPowersBadPeople: His HandBlast is powered by negative emotions, and he's an asshole.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While's he's generally a jerk to Thomas, and seems almost deliberately unhelpful at times, he does seem to care about him; when Thomas breaks down over what he's done inviting Richard into his daughter's vicinity, he tries to comfort him by saying that Thomas couldn't have known. [[spoiler: When he's sent into Henry's mind, Spirit Thomas is also just as concerned about Lily and Marianne as Thomas, if not as frantic about it.]]

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* HandBlast: Like Marianne, he can fire blasts of energy from his hands to destroy obstacles, though he uses energy of negative emotions and memories.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While's he's generally a jerk to Thomas, and seems almost deliberately unhelpful at times, he does seem to care about him; when Thomas breaks down over what he's done inviting Richard into his daughter's vicinity, he tries to comfort him by saying that Thomas couldn't have known. [[spoiler: When he's sent into Henry's mind, Spirit Thomas is also just as concerned about Lily and Marianne as Thomas, if not as frantic about it.]]


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* MindRape: He can destroy souls in the Spirit World, rendering their matirial forms catatonic.
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Thomas finds a Star of David when examining Richard's childhood memories with Rose


* AmbiguouslyJewish: It's heavily implied, but never outright stated, that she's a Jew.

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* AnthropomorphicPersonification [[spoiler: It's the sentient personification of Lilianne's trauma from whatever Richard did to her.]]



* StalkerWithoutACrush: Keeps following behind Marianne because it wants to wear her skin.

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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Keeps following behind Marianne because it wants to wear her skin.skin [[spoiler: {i.e., possess her and use her as a host)]].

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** [[spoiler: One of Thomas's notes in the old bunker, near the end of the game, suggests that Marianne's trauma as a young girl prevented her from going through the same process that he and Lilianne went through. Thus, while both Lilianne and Thomas have full-fledged alternate egos in the spirit world, Marianne exists simultaneously both there and in the real world.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While's he's generally a jerk to Thomas, and seems almost deliberately unhelpful at times, he does seem to care about him; when Thomas breaks down over what he's done inviting Richard into his daughter's vicinity, he tries to comfort him by saying that Thomas couldn't have known.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While's he's generally a jerk to Thomas, and seems almost deliberately unhelpful at times, he does seem to care about him; when Thomas breaks down over what he's done inviting Richard into his daughter's vicinity, he tries to comfort him by saying that Thomas couldn't have known. [[spoiler: When he's sent into Henry's mind, Spirit Thomas is also just as concerned about Lily and Marianne as Thomas, if not as frantic about it.]]



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It kills people by wearing their skin, and sheds them when they grow too "small" for it. The victims are left looking like they've rotten from the inside.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It kills people by wearing their skin, and sheds them when they grow too "small" for it. The victims are left looking like they've rotten rotted from the inside.
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* LiminalBeing: She considers herself to be one of those; partly of the material world, partly of the Spirit World, not wholly in either.
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An agent working for the Polish government that was sent to hunt down Thomas Reckowicz in the past.

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An agent working for the Polish government that was sent to hunt down Thomas Reckowicz Rekowicz in the past.

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* MedicateTheMedium: Implied; when Marianne sees Ursula's prescription, she grimly notes that she recognizes the drugs there.



[[folder:Ursula]]
!!Ursula/Urszula

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[[folder:Ursula]]
!!Ursula/Urszula
[[folder:Ursula Rostkowski]]
!!Ursula/Urszula Rostkowski


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* MedicateTheMedium: Or rather, Medicate the Possessed; Marianne finds a prescription showing that doctors, unaware of the supernatural, diagnosed her with malnutrition, depression, insomnia and hyseria, and prescribed her a number of drugs, as well as electroshock therapy.
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* TraumaInducedAmnesia: It turns out she [[spoiler:forgot her life before the fire, including everything that happened in Niwa.]]
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* IShallTauntYou: If it can't reach or find Marianne, it will mock and taunt her.
* HellIsThatNoise: If it's not talking, it's making something like screechy animal noises that sound like said animals are being tortured.


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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Keeps following behind Marianne because it wants to wear her skin.
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* IShallTauntYou: If it can't reach or find Marianne, it will mock and taunt her.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Keeps following behind Marianne because it wants to wear her skin.

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