History NightmareFuel / MermaidSwamp

* Whatever possesses both Yuuta and Seitaro near the end of the game. Yuuta starts acting perverted concerning the swollen Yuka, and eventually becomes violent; depending on the story path he either kills himself or chases Rin with a knife, only stopping if you manage to destroy all the Ophelia paintings. Seitaro, meanwhile, tries to hug Rin, and you can either push him away or hug him back. Hugging him leads to a NonStandardGameOver, in which Seitaro knocks her out and by the time Rin wakes up, he is drowning her to death in the bathtub.
** The Twitter comic about Seitaro's point of view just makes this worse. During the time Seitaro was possessed, he's tortured mentally with thoughts about "dominating" Rin before she pulled back some sense into him. Even after Seitaro is back to normal and his friends are saved, he can never forget the utter helplessness, misery, and lust and then he realizes that this is exactly how the Tsuchida men felt ''every second of their lives''. No wonder he convinces Rin to spare the old man Tsuchida in the Good Ending.

* The bad ending "Yaobikuni". Rin is caught and locked up in the same room where the mermaids are, and after several days of increasing starvation she resorts to eating pieces of their flesh. We're treated to a lovely scene of a delirious and starving Rin with bloodshot eyes, her mouth stained with blood, [[MadnessMantra muttering nonsensically to herself]]. By the time old Tsuchida finally lets her out, she's gone utterly insane. Convinced his dark secret is safe, he tells her that because she has eaten mermaid flesh, she's become immortal. Rin then runs away through the forest, laughing maniacally, with all her friends dead and her sanity in pieces. Eeek.
* The bad ending "Secrets". Seitaro dies, Rin commits suicide to be with him again by drowning herself in the swamp (all the while insisting she can see Seitaro in the water and doesn't want him to be alone) and Yuuta gets shot to prevent him from telling anyone what happened, leaving poor Yuka to AFateWorseThanDeath [[note]] And it’s heavily implied that she ends up being added to the collection of mermaids by the old man [[/note]].

** Even more so, the fact that he actually wants Rin to save the "mermaids", as he is unable to do so. In the Good Ending, where her friends are still alive and she keeps her cool, he lets her and her friends go and even helps Yuuta find the way to return home. If Rin's friends died and she has undergone a HeroicBSOD, well...depending on the ending, he keeps her locked up until she reaches SanitySlippage, shoots Yuuta to death or becomes a bystander, watching as Rin slowly loses herself and drives herself to suicide.
*** It’s actually worse in the ending where he shoots Yuuta, as an still-ill (and heavily bloated) Yuka is left alone with him. [[NothingIsScarier Did Tsuchida end up adding her to the mermaid collection afterwards?]]

* Seitaro's death in "Secrets". If Rin dodges him while he's possessed and chasing her with an axe, he falls through the weakened floorboards. When Rin goes to find him, he's landed on top of a table...and the axe has landed in his stomach. But that's not the worst part, because Seitaro is actually ''still alive''. In a state of shock and agony, he begs Rin to remove the axe, then gets up and manages to walk to the edge of the swamp, bleeding all over the place and repeatedly insisting he can't die like this. He ends up drowning himself in the swamp as Rin watches in horror (in fairness to him, being stabbed in the stomach is ''nasty'' way to go). And the horrible cherry on top is that Seitaro wasn't even in control of his actions; if he lives he tells Rin he was mostly conscious but had no control of his body. He only regains control after he smashes through the floor and gets an axe embedded in his stomach.
* Yuka's potential death. Good ''grief''. Rin goes to check on Yuta, only to find her lying dead in a pool of blood, with [[BloodFromEveryOrifice blood leaking out of her nose, mouth and ears]]. It's no wonder Rin starts screaming, then goes into a HeroicBSOD. It gets worse when Seitaro investigates and concludes that Yuka's organs couldn't keep up with her body swelling and her ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath insides burst]]''. And that it was probably caused by Rin lighting a fire in the room, which she only did because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Yuka kept saying she was cold and Rin wanted to make her more comfortable]].

*** It’s actually worse in the ending where he shoots Yuuta, as an still-ill (and heavily bloated) Yuka is left alone with him. [[NothingIsScarier Did Tsuchida end up adding her to the mermaid collection after?]]

* The bad ending "Secrets". Seitaro dies, Rin commits suicide to be with him again by drowning herself in the swamp (all the while insisting she can see Seitaro in the water and doesn't want him to be alone) and Yuuta gets shot to prevent him from telling anyone what happened, leaving poor Yuka to AFateWorseThanDeath.

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[[caption-width-right:314:Being in the water is a lot less fun when you are kept in a water tank because of [[spoiler: the fixations of a BigScrewedUpFamily]]]]

* Yuuta's death in "Yaobikuni" and ''Forever Deep''. As a result of Rin lighting the fireplace, Yuka died. Distraught over her death, Yuuta runs to the kitchen where he stabs himself with a kitchen knife. What makes this terrifying is the fact that Yuuta was possessed by one of the Tsuchida ghosts, meaning that Yuuta didn't commit suicide of his own free will. Even worse is Yuuta regaining consciousness enough to wonder why he's bleeding.

* Yuka's potential death in "Yaobikuni". Good ''grief''. Rin goes to check on Yuta, only to find her lying dead in a pool of blood, with [[BloodFromEveyOrifice blood leaking out of her nose, mouth and ears]]. It's no wonder Rin starts screaming, then goes into a HeroicBSOD. It gets worse when Seitaro investigates and concludes that Yuka's organs couldn't keep up with her body swelling and her ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath insides burst]]''. And that it was probably caused by Rin lighting a fire in the room, which she only did because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Yuka kept saying she was cold and Rin wanted to make her more comfortable]].

* All the [[JumpScare Jump Scares]] when Rin is travelling across the old mansion.

* Yuuta's death in ''Yaobikuni'' and ''Forever Deep''. As a result of Rin lighting the fireplace, Yuka died. Distraught over her death, Yuuta runs to the kitchen where he stabs himself with a kitchen knife. What makes this terrifying is the fact that Yuuta was possessed by one of the Tsuchida ghosts, meaning that Yuuta didn't commit suicide of his own free will. Even worse is Yuuta regaining consciousness enough to wonder why he's bleeding.

!!Beware of unmarked spoilers

* The tale of the mermaid. A man kidnaps a mermaid because he has fallen in love with her and makes her live in a tank with swamp water. This ends very poorly for the mermaid, as the swamp water damages her health and she becomes ugly.
** Even moreso, TheReveal. There [[spoiler: is no actual mermaid, the mermaid's legend is based on events involving young women being kidnapped for precisely the same reason by the Tsuchidas, a BigScrewedUpFamily with a fixation for girls underwater. They kidnap them and force them to live in water tanks, as they love the sight of seeing them underwater. Eventually this destroyed their health and they died, but the Tsuchida men loved them nonetheless. The tale of the mermaid is an attempt of the Tsuchida women to keep outsiders away from their estate, so they won't end up as victims of the family's fixation.]]

* Yuka's illness after she arrives into the house. Her whole body starts [[spoiler: swelling up horribly]]. Couple this with some unnerving [[ScareChord Scare Chords]] and you've got the player completely freaked out.
* [[spoiler: Whatever possesses both Yuuta and Seitaro near the end of the game. Yuuta starts acting perverted concerning the swollen Yuka, and eventually becomes violent; depending on the story path he either kills himself or chases Rin with a knife, only stopping if you manage to destroy all the Ophelia paintings. Seitaro, meanwhile, tries to hug Rin, and you can either push him away or hug him back. Hugging him leads to a NonStandardGameOver, in which Seitaro knocks her out and by the time Rin wakes up, he is drowning her to death in the bathtub.]]

* The bad ending "Yaobikuni". [[spoiler: Rin is caught and locked up in the same room where the mermaids are, and after several days of increasing starvation she resorts to eating pieces of their flesh. We're treated to a lovely scene of a delirious and starving Rin with bloodshot eyes, her mouth stained with blood, [[MadnessMantra muttering nonsensically to herself]]. By the time old Tsuchida finally lets her out, she's gone utterly insane. Convinced his dark secret is safe, he tells her that because she has eaten mermaid flesh, she's become immortal. Rin then runs away through the forest, laughing maniacally, with all her friends dead and her sanity in pieces.]] Eeek.
* The bad ending "Secrets". [[spoiler:Seitaro dies, Rin commits suicide to be with him again, and Yuuta gets shot to prevent him from telling anyone what happened, leaving poor Yuka to AFateWorseThanDeath.]]
* The fact that the [[spoiler: old man Tsuchida, in the Good Ending, it is revealed that part of him felt bad for what his family had done to the "mermaids" and wanted to free them from their suffering, while part of him was attracted to them as well.]] ItRunsInTheFamily.
** Even more so, the fact that [[spoiler: he actually wants Rin to save the "mermaids", as he is unable to do so. In the Good Ending, where her friends are still alive and she keeps her cool, he lets her and her friends go and even helps Yuuta find the way to return home. If Rin's friends died and she has undergone a HeroicBSOD, well... depending on the ending, he keeps her locked up until she reaches SanitySlippage, shoots Yuuta to death or becomes a bystander, watching as Rin slowly loses herself and drives herself to suicide.]]
* [[spoiler:Yuuta's death in ''Yaobikuni'' and ''Forever Deep''. As a result of Rin lighting the fireplace, Yuka died. Distraught over her death, Yuuta runs to the kitchen where he stabs himself with a kitchen knife. What makes this terrifying is the fact that Yuuta was possessed by one of the Tsuchida ghosts, meaning that Yuuta didn't commit suicide of his own free will. Even worse is Yuuta regaining consciousness enough to wonder why he's bleeding.]]

* [[spoiler: Whatever possesses both Yuuta and Seitaro near the end of the game. Yuuta starts acting perverted concerning the swollen Yuka, and eventually becomes violent; depending on the story path he either kills himself or chases Rin with a knife, only stopping if you manage to destroy all the Ophelia paintings. Seitaro, meanwhile, tries to hug Rin, and you can either push him away or hug him back. Hugging him leads to a NonStandardGameOver, in which Seitaro knocks her out and by the time Rin wakes up, he is drowning her to death in the bathtub. If you push him away, however, he will chase Rin with an axe. If Rin decides to dodge the attack, he falls through the floor and ends up with the axe in his own chest. He comes back to his senses and thinks having an axe in him is not a dignified way to go, so he makes Rin pull the axe out and then he goes out to the swamp to drown himself.]]
** The Twitter comic about Seitaro's point of view just makes this worse, as when he hugs Rin, his head is filled with thoughts about "dominating" Rin. Even more, he's aware that these aren't his thoughts at all, but can't stop himself.

* The bad ending "Secrets". [[spoiler:Seitaro dies, Rin commits suicide to be with him again, and Yuuta gets shot to prevent him from telling what happened, leaving poor Yuka to AFateWorseThanDeath.]]

* [[spoiler: Whatever posseses both Yuuta and Seitaro near the end of the game. Yuuta starts acting perverted concerning the swollen Yuka, and eventually becomes violent; depending on the story path he either kills himself or chases Rin with a knife, only stopping if you manage to destroy all the Ophelia paintings. Seitaro, meanwhile, tries to hug Rin, and depending of the action you can push him or hug him back. (Hugging him leads to a NonStandardGameOver, in which Seitaro knocks her out and by the time Rin wakes up, he is drowning her to death in the bathtub). If you push him away, he will chase Rin with an axe. If Rin decides to dodge the attack, he falls through the floor and ends up with the axe in his own chest. He comes back to his senses and thinks having an axe in him is not a dignified way to go, so he makes Rin pull the axe out and then he goes out to the swamp to drown himself.]]

** Even more so, the fact that [[spoiler: he actually wants Rin to save the "mermaids", as he is unable to do so. In the Good Ending, where her friends are still alive and she keeps her cool, he lets her and her friends go and even helps Yuuta the way to return home. If Rin's friends died and she has crossed the HeroicBSOD, well...depending of the ending, he keeps her locked until she reaches SanitySlippage, shoots Yuuta to death or becomes a bystander, watching as Rin slowly loses herself and drives herself to suicide.]]

[[caption-width-right:252:Being in the water is a lot less fun when you are kept in a water tank because of [[spoiler: the fixations of a BigScrewedUpFamily]]]]

* All the [[JumpScare JumpScares]] when Rin is travelling across the old mansion.

** Even more so, the fact that [[spoiler: he actually wants Rin to save the "mermaids", as he is unable to do so. In the Good Ending, where her friends are still alive and she keeps her cool, he lets her and her friends go and even helps Yuuta the way to return home. If Rin's friends died and she has crossed the HeroicBSOD, well...depending of the ending, he keeps her locked until she reaches SanitySlippage, shoots Yuuta to death or becomes a bystander, watching as Rin slowly loses herself and drives herself to suicide.]]

* The bad ending "Yaobikuni". [[spoiler: Rin ends up locked where the mermaids are for several days, so she ends up eating the flesh of one of the mermaids out of starvation. And then we see Rin, with bloodshot eyes, her mouth covered in blood and flesh, while repeating [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantras]] all the while. The old Tsuchida lets her go and convinces her that she's become immortal due to eating the mermaid flesh. Rin then starts running across the forest, LaughingMad all the while. It should be noted that, by now, all her friends are dead and she is suffering severe SanitySlippage]]. Eeek.

** Even moreso, TheReveal. There [[spoiler: is no actual mermaid, the mermaid's legend is based on events involving young women being kidnapped for precisely the same reason by the Tsuchidas, a BigScrewedUpFamily with a fixation for girls underwater. They kindnap them and force them to live in water tanks, as they love the sight of seeing them underwater. Eventually this destroyed their health and they died, but the Tsuchida men loved them nonetheless. The tale of the mermaid is an attempt of the Tsuchida women to keep outsiders away from their estate, so they won't end up as victims of the family's fixation.]]

* The tale of the mermaid. A man kidnaps a mermaid because he has fallen in love with her and makes her live in a tank with swamp water. This ends very poorly for the mermaid, as the swamp water damages her and becomes ugly.
** Even moreso, TheReveal. There [[spoiler: is no actual mermaid, the mermaid's legend is based on events involving young women being kidnapped for precisely the same reason by the Tsuchidas, a BigScrewedUpFamily with a fixation for girls underwater. They kindnap them and force them to live in water tanks, as they love the sight of seeing them underwater. Eventually this destroyed their health and died, but the Tsuchida men loved them nonetheless. The tale of the mermaid is an attempt of the Tsuchida women to keep outsiders away from their state, so they won't end up as victims of the family's fixation.]]

* [[spoiler: Whatever posseses both Yuuta and Seitaro near the end of the game. Yuuta starts acting perverted concerning the swollen Yuka, and eventually becomes violent; depending on the story path he either kills himself or chases Rin with a knife, olny stopping if you manage to destroy all the Ophelia paintings. Seitaro, meanwhile, tries to hug Rin, and depending of the action you can push him or hug him back (leading to a NonStandardGameOver, in which Seitaro knocks her down and by the time Rin wokes up, he is drowning her to death in the bathtub). If you push him away, he will chase Rin with an axe. If Rin decides to dodge the attack, he falls through the floor and ends up with the axe in his own chest. He comes back to his senses and thinks having an axe in him is not a dignified way to go, so he makes Rin pull the axe out and then he goes out to the swamp to drown himself.]]
* The bad ending "Yaobikuni". [[spoiler: Rin ends up locked where the mermaids are for several days, so she ends up eating the flesh of one of the mermaids out of starvation. And then we see Rin, with bloodshot eyes, her mouth covered in blood and flesh, while repeating [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantras]] all the while. The old Tsuchida lets her go and convinces her that she's become immortal due to eating the mermaid flesh. Rin then starts running across the forest, LaughingMad all the while. It should be noted that, by now, all her friends are dead and she has reached the SanitySlippage]]. Eeek.
* The bad ending "Secrets".

* The bad ending "Yaobikuni". [[spoiler: Rin ends up locked where the mermaids are for several days, so she ends up eating the flesh of one of the mermaids out of starvation. And then we see Rin, with bloodshot eyes, her mouth covered in blood and flesh, while repeating [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantras]] all the while. The old Tsuchida lets her go and convinces her that she's become immortal due to eating the mermaid flesh. Rin then starts running across the forest, LaughingMad all the while. It should be noted that, by now, all her friends are dead and she has reached the SnaitySlippage]]. Eeek.

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** Even moreso, TheReveal. There [[spoiler: is no actual mermaid, the mermaid's legend is based on events involving young women being kidnapped for precisely the same reason by the Tsuchidas, a BigScrewedUp Family with a fixation for girls underwater. They kindnap them and force them to live in water tanks, as they love the sight of seeing them underwater. Eventually this destroyed their health and died, but the Tsuchida men loved them nonetheless.

** Even moreso, TheReveal. There [[spoiler: is no actual mermaid, the mermaid's legend is based on events involving young women being kidnapped for precisely the same reason by the Tsuchidas, a Big Screwed-Up Family with a fixation for girls underwater. They kindnap them and force them to live in water tanks, as they love the sight of seeing them underwater. Eventually this destroyed their health and died, but the Tsuchida men loved them nonetheless.

* Yuka's illness after she arrives into the house. Her whole body starts [[spoiler: swelling up horribly. Couple this with some unnerving [[ScareChord Scare Chords]] and you've got the player completely freaked out.

** Even more so, the fact that [[spoiler: he actually wants Rin to save the "mermaids", as he is unable to do so. In the Good Ending, where her friends are still alive and she keeps her cool, he lets her and her friends go and even helps Yuuta the way to return home. If Rin's friends died and she has crossed the HeroicBSOD, well...depending of the ending, he keeps her locked until she reaches SnaitySlippage, shoots Yuuta to death or becomes a bystander, watching as Rin slowly loses herself and drives herself to suicide.]]