History VideoGame / Easter

* BigDamnHeroes: At some point, Easter and one of his friends is alone with the killer, resulting in them getting mutilated for trying to protect Easter. [[spoiler: Then double subverted when Easter was the killer all along. Somehow.]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Sharply averted with [[spoiler: Easter's childhood. He was raped by his father for years and manipulated Nester into getting raped as well]]. Played straight with Olie, Mugwort and Totl, who didn't understand what was going on.
* CuttingBackToReality: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, Easter knocks down Nester in order to save his helpless friends, but is knocked down himself. Cut back to reality: they're all in an insane asylum and Easter dreamed something that happened weeks ago...only that he was the killer instead of the masked man.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: The masked man tears off Olie's eyes. In truth Olie's own father did it during a psychotic break.]]

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: After Monte's wife became an alcoholic, he became impotent with her. [[spoiler:So, he started to molest Easter.]]

** [[CruelTwistEnding Normal Ending]]: [[spoiler: Olie, Mugwort and Totl are mutilated by the killer. Nester mocks their fates, saying he never considered them friends and rapes Easter in revenge for tricking him in the past. Easter knocks him down and tries to save his friends, but Nester knocks him again. Easter wakes up in an insane asylum, where him and the rest of the gang has been institutionalized. While Nester decides to finish the job and kill Easter...]]
** [[AssholeVictim Retribution Ending]]: Same as the Normal Ending, but [[spoiler: Easter's past is shown, revealing that he's been raped by his father for years and caused trouble for his friends and Nester out of spite. Ah, and he's also the killer who's been targeting the gang. Nester wakes up in the insane asylum and tortures Easter for his misdeeds, cutting his ears, eyes and tongue, just like he had done to his friends.]]

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: A running gag is that Nester tends to be excluded from the gang's activities, such as forcing him to take the backseat in the beginning or Mugwort forgetting to include him in his birthday toast. And not only Nester is horribly aware of it, [[spoiler: he resents them. To the point that he does nothing to help after Easter mutilates them]].

* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler: Nester was tricked by Easter into getting raped by their father, forcing him to steal snacks to prove he's "a grown boy". Years later, with their friends mutilated and Easter at his mercy, Nester proceeds to brutally beat and rape Easter to show he's a grown boy.]]

** [[spoiler: Nester was the only one of Easter's gang who didn't get mutilated and he later ties Olie, Mugwort and Totl while stating he never liked them. While his resentment is genuine, he didn't mutilate them. Easter did.]]

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: The masked man cuts off Mugwort's tongue. In truth, Mugwort lost his tongue after Easter tricked him into drinking bleach as a child.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Olie, Mugwort and Totl were always very protective of Easter, to the point they'll give their lives for him. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Easter was too busy feeling sorry for himself and secretly resented them for having happier lives than him.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: At some point Easter and one of his friends is alone with the killer, resulting in them getting mutilated for trying to protect Easter. [[spoiler: Then double subverted when Easter was the killer all along. Somehow.]]

* NothingIsScarier: At some point Easter is forced to tiptoe in the dark to evade the killer, only guided by the sounds of Totl and Mugwort's footsteps.

** [[KickTheSonOfABitch Retribution Ending]]: Same as the Normal Ending, but [[spoiler: Easter's past is shown, revealing that he's been raped by his father for years and caused trouble for his friends and Nester out of spite. Ah, and he's also the killer who's been targeting the gang. Nester wakes up in the insane asylum and tortures Easter for his misdeeds, cutting his ears, eyes and tongue, just like he had done to his friends.]]

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: A running gag is that Nester tends to be excluded from the gang's activities, such as forcing him to take the backseat in the beginning or Mugwort forgetting to include him in his birthday toast. And not only Nester is horribly aware of it, [[spoiler: he resents them. To the point that he does nothing to help after Easter mutilates them.]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Unreliable because [[spoiler: the events as depicted in the story are a conglomeration of half-recalled events and traumatic incidents.]]

* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler: The mutilating attempt by Easter on his friends is what finally convinces Nester that his brother can't be helped.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Nester''']]: ''You've let the hate consume you. Let it make you do horrible, cruel things to your closest friends. They'll never be the same, [[spoiler: Easter]]. Not after what you did to them.''
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Easter]] is the killer.

* BigDamnHeroes: At some point Easter and one of his friends is alone with the killer, resulting in them getting mutilated for trying to protect Easter. [[spoiler: Then double subverted when Easter was the killer all along.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Easter looks like a meek young man that has to be constantly protected by his friends and his stronger little brother. In reality, [[spoiler: he's a sociopath who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself and Nester, manipulating everyone—including Nester—in order to make everyone suffer as much as him.]]

* EtTuBrute: In their childhood, Totl would protect Easter from harm and bullies, until one day he didn't come to save him. Because he had gotten stuck in the sewers while searching for a lost toy that Easter took.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Olie's fate.]]
* EvilIsPetty: You honestly can’t get any pettier than [[spoiler: trying to ruin your friends' lives simply because they're happier than you.]]

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Mugwort's fate.]]

* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler: Easter as a child, dear God...]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}:

* NightmareFuelColoringBook: The ''Happy Easter'' minigame, where Easter has a dream of himself [[spoiler: ruining his friends' lives when they were young, all to the format of a children's storybook.]]

* OminousMusicBoxTune: Easter finds a music box that sounds like the jingle of the Monte Arcade, which Nester is unnerved at. [[spoiler: Because it was sounding in the background when his father raped him.]]

* UngratefulBastard: Olie, Mugwort and Totl were always very protective of Easter, to the point they'll give their lives for him. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Easter was too busy feeling sorry for himself and secretly resented them for having happier lives than him.]]

* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler: Nester]] stood back and and did nothing while [[spoiler: Easter messed with his friends lives for sick pleasure]]. In the True Ending, he states outright that because of this, he's just as guilty for his friends' suffering as [[spoiler: Easter]] himself.

* HiddenDisdainReveal: [[spoiler: After Olie, Mugwort and Totl have been mutilated by the killer, Nester admits he didn't like them, feeling that they only hanged out with him because he was Easter's brother. Similarly Easter secretly resents his friends for having happier lives, while he was sexually abused by his father.]]

** [[KickTheSonOfABitch Retribution Ending]]: Same as the Normal Ending, but [[spoiler: Easter's past is shown, revealing that he's been raped by his father for years and caused trouble for his friends and Nester out of spite. Ah, and he's also the killer who's been targetting the gang. Nester wakes up in the insane asylum and tortures Easter for his misdeeds, cutting his ears, eyes and tongue, just like he had done to his friends.]]

* NightmareFuelColoringBook: The ''Happy Easter'' minigame, where Easter has a dream of himself [[spoiler: ruining his friends' lives when they were young, all to the format of a children storybook.]]

* StepfordSmiler: A recurrent theme of the game is about smiles. [[spoiler: Under that ditzy face and mannerism, Easter hides the twisted mind of a psychotic killer. When he's lobomotized, it's pointed out he's now smiling forever...]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Easter looks like a meek young boy that has to be constantly protected by his friends and his stronger little brother. In reality, [[spoiler: he's a sociopath who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself and Nester, manipulating everyone—including Nester—in order to make everyone suffer as much as him.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Nester''']]: You've let the hate consume you. Let it make you do horrible, cruel things to your closest friends. They'll never be the same, [[spoiler: Easter]]. Not after what you did to them.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: A running gag is that Nester tends to be excluded from the gang's activities, such as forcing him to take the backseat in the beginning or Mugwort forgetting to include him in his birthday toast. And not only Nester is horribly aware of it, [[spoiler: he resents them]].

* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler: Nester stood back and and did nothing while Easter messed with his friends lives for sick pleasure. In the True Ending, he states outright that because of this, he's just as guilty for his friends' suffering as Easter himself.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: Easter did care for Nester at some point, protecting him from their father's sexual abuse. At least until it became too much and manipulated Nester into being raped by their father. And despite being indirectly responsible for his rape, in the True Ending Nester admits that he can't hate Easter and he should get the help he needs to overcome his demons.]]

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Under that ditzy face and mannerism, Easter hides the twisted mind of a psychotic killer.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: Averted. In most of the endings the gang was institutionalized after their ordeal with the killer and they seem to have gotten better. Olie, Mugwort and Totl are doing well despite their mutilations and Nester learned to let go of his resentment towards his father, even if he can't forgive Easter. Subverted with Easter, who's unable to let go of the demons of the past and is lobotomized at the end of the game.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Olie, Mugworth and Totl feel this (in varying degrees) towards Easter. Ironically Easter had this towards Nester, until [[spoiler: their father's abuse became too much for him.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: Averted. In most of the endings the gang was institutionalized after their ordeal with the killer and they seem to have gotten better. Olie, Mugworth and Totl are doing well despite their mutilations and Nester learned to let go of his resentment towards his father, even if he can't forgive Easter. Subverted with Easter, who's unable to let go of the demons of the past and is lobotomized at the end of the game.]]

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Mugwort's fate.]]

** [[KickTheSonOfABitch Retribution Ending]]: Same as the Normal Ending, but [[spoiler: Easter's past is shown, revealing that he's been raped by his father for years and caused trouble for his friends and Nester out of spite. Ah, and he's also the killer who's been targetting the gang. Nester wakes up in the insane asylum and kills Easter in retribution for all his misdeeds.]]

* AbusiveParents:

** While inspecting Olie's memories, there's a newspaper of how he was fired from his job and is later stated he killed somebody. However the murder has nothing to do with his firing, [[spoiler: he killed Easter's father for sleeping with his wife.]]

One stormy night at the onset of what should have been a nostalgic trip to the lake, Easter and his friends make a pit stop at an old, abandoned house along the side of the road. What should have been a short-lived indoor camping adventure, however, turns into a hellish nightmare when something begins hunting them down one-by-one.

* AbusiveParents

* CuttingBackToReality:

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness:
* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Mugwort's fate.]]
* TraumaButton: Nester becomes very agitated when he hears the jingle of the Monte Arcade. [[spoiler: Because it was sounding in the background when his father raped him.]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Sharply averted with [[spoiler: Easter' childhood. He was raped by his father for years and manipulated Nester into getting raped as well]]. Played straight with Olie, Mugwort and Totl, who didn't understand what was going on.
* CruelTwistEnding:

* CoolOldGuy: Monte Mitchour, who owns the arcade where his sons and their friends used to hang out. Or so it seems.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler: Averted. In most of the endings the gang was institutionalized after their ordeal with the killer and they seem to have gotten better. Olie, Mugworth and Totl are doing well despite their mutilations and Nester learned to let go of his resentment towards his father, even if he can't forgive Easter. Subverted with Easter, who's unable to let go of the demons of the past and is lobotomized at the end of the game.]]

* MultipleEndings

* AerithAndBob: Justified in that this is a rpg horror game, but ... in how many groups can there be a Totl, Mugworth and Easter alongside a Olie and a Monte?

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Sharply averted with [[spoiler: Easter' childhood. He was raped by his father for years and manipulated Nester into getting raped as well]]. Played straight with Olie, Mugworth and Totl, who didn't understand what was going on.

* HiddenDisdainReveal: [[spoiler: After Olie, Mugworth and Totl have been mutilated by the killer, Nester admits he didn't like them, feeling that they only hanged out with him because he was Easter's brother. Similarly Easter secretly resents his friends for having happier lives, while he was sexually abused by his father.]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: