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** The inhabitants of Mabuka's Den, apart from [[BigBad Remor and the Valokas]], are all pretty nice for being creatures of utter shadow and despair [[spoiler:including Mabuka herself.]] They're just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird]].
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** The inhabitants of Mabuka's Den, apart from [[BigBad Remor and the Valokas]], Kamalas]], are all pretty nice for being creatures of utter shadow and despair [[spoiler:including Mabuka herself.]] They're just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird]].
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* LivingShadow: The Kamalas, the primary obstacles and opponents in the game.
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** The inhabitants of Mabuka's Den, apart from [[BigBad Remor and the Maloka's]], are all pretty nice for being creatures of utter shadow and despair [[spoiler:including Mabuka herself.]] They're just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird]].
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** The inhabitants of Mabuka's Den, apart from [[BigBad Remor and the Maloka's]], are all pretty nice for being creatures of utter shadow and despair [[spoiler:including Mabuka herself.]] They're just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Fran has NervesOfSteel faced with all the gore and SurrealHorror she meets on a regular basis, but dolls? Fran really wishes there was nos such thing as dolls.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Fran has NervesOfSteel faced with all the gore and SurrealHorror she meets on a regular basis, but dolls? Fran really wishes there was nos no such thing as dolls.
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* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: One of the Valokas]] that Fran talks to implies that the truth of her parents' deaths is too terrible for her to understand.
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* AffablyEvil: Mabuka [[spoiler:the Queen of Darkness, leader of the Kamala, and [[BigBad Remor]]'s mother]] is very courteous and polite despite Fran intrudding her den and forcibly waking her up with an alarm that explicitly said as something she hates.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: One of the Valokas]] that Fran talks to implies that the truth of her parents' deaths is too terrible for her to understand. [[spoiler:Turns out, Fran herself was the one who killed her parents, under influence of Remor, who works for Dr. Oswald who is planning to experiment on Fran since she was born.]]
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: One of the Valokas]] that Fran talks to implies that the truth of her parents' deaths is too terrible for her to understand. [[spoiler:Turns out, Fran herself was the one who killed her parents, under influence of Remor, who works for Dr. Oswald who is planning to experiment on Fran since she was born.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When using Duotine, Fran can see shadows looming over the children in the asylum. Interacting with these shadows will give snippets of the children's reason of why they're in the asylum in the first place. [[spoiler:We later find out these shadows are the Kamalas, creatures who feed on people's misery, and that they're not latching exclusively on children, as Dr. Deern can attest.]]
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* FantasticDrug: The Duotine that Fran takes, though its actual effects are never elaborated upon. A quick check on the asylum's basement says that the pills might not the Duotine. [[spoiler:Later conversation implies that the pills might not even a drug to begin with.]]
* FetchQuest: Most of the game has Fran collecting items to give to people so they can give her more items to proceed. Especially notable is the Great Wizard part of Ithersta, of which he gives a fetch quest (the magic stones) within a fetch quest (the Stars of Ithersta), itself consists of four different fetch quests. You can only get that chain of fetch quest by doing a fetch quest (his memories) consists of another four quests.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Palontrus, the doctor of Ithersta, is a flying axolotl as large as a whale. No other Itherstans even similar to him, who are divided into plant-like creatures and antropormophic insects.
* FetchQuest: Most of the game has Fran collecting items to give to people so they can give her more items to proceed. Especially notable is the Great Wizard part of Ithersta, of which he gives a fetch quest (the magic stones) within a fetch quest (the Stars of Ithersta), itself consists of four different fetch quests. You can only get that chain of fetch quest by doing a fetch quest (his memories) consists of another four quests.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Palontrus, the doctor of Ithersta, is a flying axolotl as large as a whale. No other Itherstans even similar to him, who are divided into plant-like creatures and antropormophic insects.
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* TheGoodShepard: Well, doctor, but Dr. Deern is the only adult who seems to care about Fran and wants to help her recover. Sure, he didn't seem to care that she might need some food after trying her new dosage of duotine, but he does get significantly better as the game progresses.
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* TheGoodShepard: GoodShepherd: Well, doctor, but Dr. Deern is the only adult who seems to care about Fran and wants to help her recover. Sure, he didn't seem to care that she might need some food after trying her new dosage of duotine, but he does get significantly better as the game progresses.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Depending on your interpretation of the game, [[spoiler:Aunt Grace could be this. It's implied that she was involved with her sister and brother-in-law's murder and that she was trying to help Dr. Oswald by pushing Fran towards him. She even went as far as trying to kill Mr. Midnight so that Fran wouldn't resist Oswald's experiments.]]
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* TheGoodShepard: Well, doctor, but Dr. Deern is the only adult who seems to care about Fran and wants to help her recover. Sure, he didn't seem to care that she might need some food after trying her new dosage of duotine, but he does get significantly better as the game progresses.
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* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this. Of course this takes place in the 1940's so her therapist might not be ethical from modern standards. [[spoiler:[[MadScientist She's not wrong]]. [[BigBad She's not wrong at all.]]]]
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* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this. Of course this takes place in the 1940's so her therapist might not be ethical from modern standards. [[spoiler:[[MadScientist [[spoiler:While Dr. Deern turns out to be a subversion, on the subject of Dr. Oswald...[[MadScientist She's not wrong]]. [[BigBad She's not wrong at all.]]]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The whole plot scenario. Is it all a magical journey being carried out by Fran, or is it [[AllJustADream all in her head]]?
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* MadScientist: [[spoiler:Dr. Oswald, who depending on where you side on the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane debate, is either responsible for experiments that drove a ten-year-old girl to insanity or left her at the mercy of malevolent supernatural forces, all to further his knowledge. He's not a nice man.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The whole plot scenario. Is it all a magical journey being carried out by Fran, or is it [[AllJustADream all in herhead]]?head]]?
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The whole plot scenario. Is it all a magical journey being carried out by Fran, or is it [[AllJustADream all in her
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* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this. Of course this takes place in the 1940's so her therapist might not be ethical from modern standards.
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* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this. Of course this takes place in the 1940's so her therapist might not be ethical from modern standards. [[spoiler:[[MadScientist She's not wrong]]. [[BigBad She's not wrong at all.]]]]
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* PleaseWakeUp: Fran often thinks that the obviously dead animals she sees in her hallucinations are just sleeping or crying.
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Not related to the ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' series.
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* LighterAndSofter: The game becomes this as it progresses, dropping the heavy horror and gore themes in favor of a more fantasy-based story.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A possibly intentional version in the credits. Yes, Egnlish Proof Raeding is very serious business.
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* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]*
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* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]*]]
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** Given it takes place in the 1940's, it was A LOT harsher back then...Lobotomy and Shock Therapy were common back then. And public realization of abuse and mistreatment of patients were just revealed.
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* SkullForAHead: Remor, Fran's nemesis, who has a goat skull for a head.
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Fran Bow is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Killmonday. It tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Fran Bow is a point-and-click adventure game AdventureGame developed by Killmonday. It tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Fran has gotten rather used to her perception of reality breaking down on a regular basis, so she has become somewhat desensitized to some of the disturbing stuff she sees.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Itward]] does this near the end.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[Itward does this in the ending.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[Itward does this in the ending.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Very near the start of the game Fran will find an empty wheelchair and, in the desk near the wheelchair, a gun she refuses to touch as she's afraid of it. At the very end of the game both the wheelchair, now occupied by Doctor Oswald, and the gun make a sudden return...]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The story of a lost little girl trying to get home.]]
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* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]
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* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]]]*
* BodyHorror: Can be seen all throughout the game. One striking moment is the discovery that [[spoiler: the twin sisters arent naturally conjoined; they were forcibly sewn together.]]
* BodyHorror: Can be seen all throughout the game. One striking moment is the discovery that [[spoiler: the twin sisters arent naturally conjoined; they were forcibly sewn together.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: Itward, who helps Fran escape the house of the sisters.]]
* HelpfulHallucination: The images that Fran sees when on her pills may be this.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The whole plot scenario. Is it all a magical journey being carried out by Fran, or is it [[AllJustADream all in her head]]?
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* TearsOfBlood: Fran cries these when [[spoiler: a few times in the monster that's been following her breaks the bridge she is on and causes her to nearly die]], and again when [[spoiler: she's talking to her Aunt Grace and begging her to save her.]]game.
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Fran Bow is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Killmonday
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her parents.
In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her parents.
In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
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Fran Bow is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Killmonday
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game thatKillmonday. It tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from herparents.
parents. In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her
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* ActionSurvivor: Fran.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: One of the Valokas]] that Fran talks to implies that the truth of her parents' deaths is too terrible for her to understand.
* BalefulPolymorph: Fran is turned into [[spoiler: a tree]] at one point.
* BedlamHouse: Oswald Asylum, where Fran is taken after her parents'deaths. deaths.
* BigFancyHouse: The house of the sisters.
* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]
* BrownNote: The cry of the babies that Fran finds in [[spoiler:the house of the evil sisters.]]
* CatsAreMean / CatsAreSnarky: Averted. Mr. Midnight is sweet as can be to Fran.
* DownTheRabbitHole: How Fran ends up in the house of the sisters, though [[spoiler: from what the pills show, she's actually in a disgusting corpse-filled well.]]
* EldritchLocation: All the places Fran goes after leaving the mental hospital, and ''everywhere'' when she takes the pills.
* FantasticDrug: The Duotine that Fran takes, though its actual effects are never elaborated upon.
* InnocentInaccurate: Fran is only ten, so a lot of what she encounters, she does not understand.
* KindheartedCatLover: Fran.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Mr. Midnight to Fran.
* MoodWhiplash: Whenever Fran takes the pills, otherwise normal images become [[BloodierAndGorier horrific scenes of gore and violence.]] Especially noticeable in the house of the sisters; the house itself is beautiful and vibrant, almost like a dollhouse, but when Fran takes the pills, [[spoiler: she is at the bottom of a disgusting well [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with several dead babies floating in the water.]]]]
* PhantomZone: Wherever Fran goes when she takes the Duotine. The items Fran can find there stay with her, and travelling paths that appear only in this phantom world will take her to new places even when she stops taking the pills.
* PhlebotinumPills: The drugs Fran takes to induce her hallucinations. Without them, escape from the hospital would have been impossible.
* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this.
* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: The girl who was sexually assaulted does it, and asks Fran to get her something to stop the bleeding.]]
* SpookyPainting: There are a few in the hospital, mostly of [[MonsterClown clowns]].
* SurrealHorror: Coupled with the intense amounts of gore.
* TearsOfBlood: Fran cries these when [[spoiler: the monster that's been following her breaks the bridge she is on and causes her to nearly die]], and again when [[spoiler: she's talking to her Aunt Grace and begging her to save her.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: Fran, potentially.]] If this is true, then this means that the character is an...
* UnreliableNarrator
* WorldOfSymbolism: The entire game is essentially just a trip into Fran's psyche.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: One of the Valokas]] that Fran talks to implies that the truth of her parents' deaths is too terrible for her to understand.
* BalefulPolymorph: Fran is turned into [[spoiler: a tree]] at one point.
* BedlamHouse: Oswald Asylum, where Fran is taken after her parents'
* BigFancyHouse: The house of the sisters.
* BloodyHandprint: When Fran takes the pills in the room of the girl who is drawing, some can be seen [[FridgeHorror on her bed.]]
* BrownNote: The cry of the babies that Fran finds in [[spoiler:the house of the evil sisters.]]
* CatsAreMean / CatsAreSnarky: Averted. Mr. Midnight is sweet as can be to Fran.
* DownTheRabbitHole: How Fran ends up in the house of the sisters, though [[spoiler: from what the pills show, she's actually in a disgusting corpse-filled well.]]
* EldritchLocation: All the places Fran goes after leaving the mental hospital, and ''everywhere'' when she takes the pills.
* FantasticDrug: The Duotine that Fran takes, though its actual effects are never elaborated upon.
* InnocentInaccurate: Fran is only ten, so a lot of what she encounters, she does not understand.
* KindheartedCatLover: Fran.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Mr. Midnight to Fran.
* MoodWhiplash: Whenever Fran takes the pills, otherwise normal images become [[BloodierAndGorier horrific scenes of gore and violence.]] Especially noticeable in the house of the sisters; the house itself is beautiful and vibrant, almost like a dollhouse, but when Fran takes the pills, [[spoiler: she is at the bottom of a disgusting well [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with several dead babies floating in the water.]]]]
* PhantomZone: Wherever Fran goes when she takes the Duotine. The items Fran can find there stay with her, and travelling paths that appear only in this phantom world will take her to new places even when she stops taking the pills.
* PhlebotinumPills: The drugs Fran takes to induce her hallucinations. Without them, escape from the hospital would have been impossible.
* PsychoPsychologist: Fran believes her therapist to be this.
* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: The girl who was sexually assaulted does it, and asks Fran to get her something to stop the bleeding.]]
* SpookyPainting: There are a few in the hospital, mostly of [[MonsterClown clowns]].
* SurrealHorror: Coupled with the intense amounts of gore.
* TearsOfBlood: Fran cries these when [[spoiler: the monster that's been following her breaks the bridge she is on and causes her to nearly die]], and again when [[spoiler: she's talking to her Aunt Grace and begging her to save her.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: Fran, potentially.]] If this is true, then this means that the character is an...
* UnreliableNarrator
* WorldOfSymbolism: The entire game is essentially just a trip into Fran's psyche.
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* BedlamHouse: Oswald Asylum, where Fran is taken after her parents' deaths.
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Fran Bow is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Killmonday
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her parents.
In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
After having a dream about her beloved cat, Fran decides to escape from the mental institution to find him and go back home to Aunt Grace, her only living relative.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her parents.
In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
After having a dream about her beloved cat, Fran decides to escape from the mental institution to find him and go back home to Aunt Grace, her only living relative.
