History Characters / ThePath

* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: [[spoiler: Her final apperance in the game is her standing silently in the sister's apartment, their grandmothers blood staining her dress.]]

* WouldHarmASenior: [[spoiler: The game ends with her walking into grandmothers house and kneeling next to her, waking her up. When it fades out, the Girl in White is back in the apartment and covered in blood. Knowing what happens to little red riding hood's grandmother in the original tale, it's not a stretch to imagine what she just did.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The Red Sisters.]]

Rose, also known as Innocent Red, is 11 years old, barely a teenager. She's mature for her age, but has a certain air of innocence to her, believing the world to be beautiful.

* BoyishShortHair: Ginger has a short bob, reminiscent of Natalie Portman's in ''{{Film/Leon The Professional}}''.

* Mundanger: The scariest part of the Woodsman is how normal he is compared to every other wolf, and how real he seems.

* WideEyedIdealist: Rose views the world as inherently beautiful and pure, that anything that hurts is bad and evil, and what isn't is always good and right. [[spoiler: The Cloud Wlf's uncaring attitude toward her falling in the lake really destroys that for her.]]

* * AWolfInSheepsClothing: Some players may be relieved to see that the Woodsman is in the forest, as he was the hero of the original story, even more so when they realise that The Girl in White trusts him. But that all goes down the drain when you realise that he's all too willing to take advantage of a drunk, underage Carmen in front of his (potential) daughter.

* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: Scarlet is stuck in a repetitive life of caring for her younger sisters, and is resigned to her fate, though she once dreamed of making it as a musician. [[spoiler:This was eventually the temptation her wolf lured her in with.]]
* AloofBigBrother: To all her sisters, especially to Rose who looks up to her.

* BecauseYouCanCope: [[spoiler:Implied to be the reason that their mother left Scarlet to be the main caretaker, despite the fact Scarlet was still a child herself. What's worse, is that Scarlet could've been abandoned "because she could cope" at as young as ''ten years old.'']]

* CreatureOfHabit: Scarlet is heavily focused on order and stability, she's extremely neat and needs a schedule to follow, even though it doesn't allow her a lot of personal pleasures.
* CoolBigSis: This to all her sisters, but mostly Rose and Robin who idolize her for looking after them.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Scarlet mentions on multiple instances her hatred of men, calling them Monsters without sophistication.
* TheDutifulSon: Takes the role of looking after her sisters and grandmother for her mother who is never around. [[spoiler: She secretly resents this fate, wishing she had been able to persue her passion of music.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Robin. She's the eldest to Robin's youngest, she's mature and was forced to grow up quickly while Robin's immature and loves being a kid, She's sullen and down while Robin's always positive.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: This to all her siblings, but especially Ginger who she worries will get in serious trouble soon.
* HangingAround: [[spoiler:How she died.]]
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Extremely present in [[spoiler:Scarlet's secret rooms in her house]], but is shown throughout item descriptions and live journal posts that Scarlet was a musical prodigy who was forced to give it all up to take care of her younger siblings.

* NeatFreak: Scarlet has a disgust of any sort of mess, especially the forest

* PromotionToParent: With their mother basically never present, and their grandmother Ill, Scarlet was forced to take over as the maternal presence in the family.

* WhenIWasYourAge: On her first livejournal post, Scarlet gets annoyed her sisters are always on the computer, not going outside to play in the forest like she did as a child. It's a bit ironic seeing that she's barely any older than Carmen & Ruby.

* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: [[spoiler:This was Carmen's flawed mindset that led to her being vunreable to her wolf.]]
* HasAType: And she's quite clear about it. She states she wants a warm and handsome man, someone to keep her safe and hold her tight. [[spoiler:Though the man she encounters in the forest doesn't fall into ''any'' of those requirements...]]

* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: In the playground tower, there's a mirror where she says to herself, “Look at this gorgeous woman! How can you resist?” She does the same thing in the games opening screen, admiring herself in the window while trying on a hat.
* FilleFatale: Subverted. Carmen thinks she's one, or thinks she's trying, [[spoiler:but instead, that mindset makes her feel at fault for her own rape.]]
* FlamesOfLove: Zigzagged. Carmen makes a lot of references in her lines about wanting love by a fire, to curl up with and to be warm with. [[spoiler:The final time we see Carmen, she's sitting next to the fire with her wolf, sharing a beer... Instead of love, Carmen was raped by him, one of her rooms turning into a long hallway filled with fire. The last flash we see of Carmen is her crawling towards the flame looking extremely drunk and splattered by some unknown white substance on her face.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Ginger. Carmen longs for love and affection while Ginger hates it, Carmen can't wait to be an adult while Ginger doesn't want to grow up, Carmen's quite feminine while Ginger's a tomboy.
* GamerChick: Makes references to Portal in her livejournals.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: This with Ruby. They fight back and forth on their livejournal due to the fact Ruby thinks Carmen's a bit stupid, and Carmen think's Ruby is weird. They do genuinely love each other at the end of the day, a lot of their arguments devolve into complimenting each other. [[spoiler:Though it seems that Carmen envies Ruby, feeling like boys like her better, thinking she's prettier.]]

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Carmen's described as a party girl who breaks curfew a lot. [[spoiler:A lot of her dialouge in the campsite is about drinking, asking for music when she first enters.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Carmen's outwardly very confident about her appearance and personality, saying she loves the attention she gets. [[spoiler:Though a lot of that is a mask for the fact she feels like no one is able to love her for who she is. She mentions in her final livejournal about feeling jealous of Ruby and Rose, because people like them better, (she mentions even boys her age like Rose better, despite the fact there is a 6 years between them, and Rose is ''11''.) She craves so desperatly for people to acknowledge her, that she's ok if they hurt her. She finishes her final live journal post with: "I like boys. I'm not afraid."]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: [[spoiler: As you walk through Carmen's house, you hear sexual moans, as the sound of a chainsaw overtakes them.]]

* SiblingYinYang: This with Ginger. Carmen can't wait to grow up and fall in love, while Ginger never wants to grow up and hates the idea of love. [[spoiler:It's incredibly fitting that their wolves are seemingly related.]]

* AgainstMyReligion: Lampshaded. She tells Scarlet that it's a sin to work on Sunday, to which Scarlet asks when she became a Christian. Ruby replies with "On Sunday's."

* BadMoodRetreat: [[spoiler:The playground.]]
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Mentions this a few times, both with wishing she was born nearer to when the leader of Music/BauHaus was born, and as well as wishing she was born back when people still fought with swords.
* BrokenBird: Ruby's snark and pessimistic nature comes from [[spoiler:her history of bullying, mental illness, disability and drug use]].
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:Ruby is implied to have played a sport like basketball or volleyball before the injury that caused her to need her leg brace, perhaps the car accident.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Ruby throws out a lot of sarcastic comments both in item comments and on her live journal. One example is when she finds the flower field, she says, "A scarecrow. And no birds. Efficient! Wish I had one like that to keep the idiots away."
* DeathSeeker: Subverted. Ruby doesn't actually want to die, though it seems like it, she simply enjoys watching it happen.

* DisabledSnarker: When coming across one boot she says: "One shoe. Nobody ever loses one shoe. Unless they also lose a leg. Or die.", in reference to her own leg.

* FashionableAsymmetry: Her left leg has her leg brace and a small shoe, while her right has long patterened tights and a kneehigh boot.
* {{Foil}}: To Rose. She's the cynicist to Rose's idealist, Ruby relishes in the hurt in the world, while Rose wants to fix it, and Ruby thinks life is corrupt and ugly, while Rose thinks it's beautiful.
* GothsHaveItHard: [[spoiler:Bullied, abused drugs, struggled with self harm, became disabled in a car accident, Ruby really had it hard.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Every sister falls into this, but Ruby's is the most extreme.]]

* OddFriendship: This with Robin. Robin can be friends with just about anyone, but you wouldn't expect this with her goth older sister.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Exaggerated. Ruby paints her face white, and her hair is dyed so dark that it took her an entire afternoon to clean up her batrhoom after dying it.

* SourOutsideSadInside: It's extremely clear that for all of Ruby's goth makeup and witty insults, she's really just [[spoiler:a sad, disabled teenaged girl who fell in with the wrong crowd.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Most clear in her livejournal posts. She's an emo teenager who enjoys talking about how horrible the world and adulthood is, but loves playing with her 9 year old sister and celebrating Christmas.
* TroubledTeen: Ruby can be seen graffiting in the forest, wondering why she's never tried cigarettes, [[spoiler: implies she has experimented with drugs]], and muses about death a lot. Most of this seems to stem from [[spoiler:her untreated mental illness and bad influences.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Ruby mentions a lot her distaste of friends, comparing them to engines you can turn on and off. [[spoiler: This starts making a lot more sense when you find out she was pulled into drugs by her "friends", eventually resulting in her getting into a car accident and badly injuring her leg.]]

* BigBrotherBully: A minor example, Ginger has abandoned her sister Robin on the path to go and play in the forest.
* BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:This with her wolf. Both adventurous 13 year old girls who don't want to grow up, and like playing rough games. Whether you interpret this as romantic is up to you.]]

* BoyishShortHair: Ginger has a short bob, reminiscent of Natalie Portman's in Taxi Driver.

* ChildishOlderSibling: Ginger is extremely immature, not wanting to grow up, compared to Rose who muses poetic about the way the world works.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Ginger roams the forest freely without shoes, spending most of her time there. She doesn't need shoes, and when she finds a boot her first thought isn't to wear it, but to put her pebbles in it.

* FreeRangeChildren: Ginger is quite independent, usually never staying at home, and sometimes doesn't go to her grandmothers when she's supposed to. Especially seen on her live journals, where she doesn't even post most of the time because she's out playing in the forest.
* {{Foil}}: To Carmen. Ginger hates affection and love while Carmen longs for it, Ginger doesn't want to grow up while Carmen can't wait to be an adult, Ginger is very sterotypically tomboyish while Carmen is more feminine.
* ForgottenBirthday: A weird case. Ginger purposfully made people forget her birthday, and it worked!

* InformedLoner: Ginger's described as a loner who dislikes affection, but it's clear with the Girl in white and [[spoiler: Girl in Red Wolf]] she's extremely comfortable with them and includes them in her games.
* KiddieKid: Ginger, despite being 13, loves playing imaginary games and climbing trees.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Ginger's usually forgotten about by the rest of her family leading her to spend most of her time in the forest. This even goes to the point that all of her family members forgot her birthday.

* PuppyLove: [[spoiler: Can be seen as this with her wolf.]]

* ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone: Subverted, Ginger was so terrified of turning 13 and officially being 'grown up' that they made everyone forget about it while they hid in the forest.
* UnkemptBeauty: Ginger is apparently very pretty, though she doesn't realise it.
* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: This with [[spoiler:her wolf]]. Ginger's a tomboy who loves collecting pebbles, playing imaginary games, and makes a teddy bear her side kick. [[spoiler: Conversly, The Girl In Red is overly feminine wearing a red dress and pigtails, found in a field of golden flowers, but she enjoys scaring and pulling pranks on the sisters, and has a fixation on playing with barbed wire.]]

* TooManyBelts: Ginger wears two belts stacked on top of eachother, neither attatched to anything.

* BigLittleBrother: A minor example. Rose is noticeably taller than her older sister Ginger, which Ginger does not like.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Rose sees the world as all good and pure, or all evil and bad. She thinks all bad things that happen are because of big bads, and all good things are done by perfect people.

* {{Foil}}: To Ruby. She's the idealist to Ruby's cynicist, she wants to fix the hurt in the world while Ruby relishes in it, and Rose thinks life is beautiful, while Ruby thinks it's corrupt and ugly.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Mentioned in her reaction to the teddy bear, saying: "People love animals so much that they make fake ones just to cuddle."

* InnocentMeansNaive: [[spoiler:The main theme of her story.]]

* MatureYoungerSibling: Rose is a lot more mature than her older sister Ginger, and occasionally shows more maturity than her 17 year old sister Carmen.
* MultipleReferencePun: Her name is a shade of red like her sisters, but it's also a reference to the tale of Snow White and Rose Red, as well as being a pun on 'Rose Colored Glasses'.

* ProfanityPolice: Her first livejournal opens with her asking no one to swear or use any "nasty or angry words".

* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: [[spoiler: Seen in her final flashes, she floats peacefully underwater after death, having said earlier in the game that floating is probably the closest thing to flying.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:A common interpretation of Rose's route is her either battling with a terminal illness and being close to death, or attempting to save someone from drowning only to fall in herself.]]
* TheTragicRose: Rose's story is definitely played more for sadness than horror, at least compared to others. [[spoiler:But overall her story of being a young sick girl nearly drowning while trying to save something weaker than her, and learning nature isn't as lovely as she thought it was is extremely tragic.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: Rose is heavily associated with water, [[spoiler:especially with things relating to her wolf,]] and is by far the girliest sister.
* WideEyedIdealist: Rose views the world as inherently beautiful and pure, that anything that hurts is bad and evil, and what isn't is always good and right. [[spoiler:Her wolves uncaring attitude really destroys that for her.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Rose, despite being 11, is always described as being mature and wise, being described by Ginger as "Seeming so old sometimes."

Robin, also known as Kid Red, is 9 years old and the youngest of the sisters. She's a very lively child who loves fun, though she's never wandered off the path, even with the sound of the swings and the howls of wolves, Robin loves wolves, they're her favourite animals!

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Robin sees a clearly dangerous large wolf in a graveyard, and immediately jumps onto it and rides it around as it gets more and more irritated. It's... No surprise what happens next.]]

* BigBrotherWorship: This to all her older sisters, but especially Ginger who she describes as her "FAVOURTIST"

* DeathIsASadThing: [[spoiler: Robin explains multiple times that she doesn't really grasp the concept of death, seeing it as simply people going into the ground, like flowers. After her attack from her wolf, Robin is forced to try and make sense of death with her limited world view.]]
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: Seen with her wolf. Robin loves wolves, they're her favourite animals. It's quite fitting then that her wolf is the only one that truly is a wolf.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Scarlet. She's the youngest to Scarlet's eldest, she's immature and loves being a kid, Scarlet has to be mature and was forced to grow up quickly, she's outwardly positive and happy, while Scarlet is sullen.

* IronicEcho: Present throughout the game, but the most obvious with Robin. She makes many references to [[spoiler:werewolves, saying "Wolves are just dogs. But Werewolves are just people." right before meeting ''her'' werewolf. Can also be seen with "Young dead bird, not me!", playing on the fact she is named ''after a bird''.]]
* KiddieKid: Robin is stated to be 9 years old, but frequently uses incorrect tense in words, doesn't fully understand what sentences mean, has very little knowledge about the world (Wondering if the Balloon she finds in the forest is the same Balloon from her Birthday the year before), and stating herself to be a 'little kid'. It's even more obvious when compared to Rose, who is overly mature for her age.
* LifeDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: Robin's house in her version of the Grandmother's house features an overturned cot, with a dead baby bird inside.]]

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Robin talks about her new best friend she met on the path in her livejournal, naturally her older sisters think she's imaginary and tease her about it, [[spoiler:but it's revealed in the game that that imaginary friend was The Girl in White, who is very real, and all of the sisters already knew.]]
* SkipOfInnocence: When Robin goes to pick up flowers, she skips to them.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Robin sees a clearly dangerous large wolf in a graveyard, and immediatly jumps onto it and rides it around as it gets more and more irritated. It's... No suprise what happens next.]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler: The only reason Robin got hurt was that she was so excited to see a wolf, she didn't think twice about jumping onto and riding it.]]

* ClassPrincess: Though she can seem like she's stuck up and a bit dumb, Carmen's a geniunally nice teenager who loves her friends and siblings, [[spoiler: and only really focuses on her looks because she think's it will make others like her.]]