* DyingAlone: At one point Ib finds a grim little storybook about a little girl who gets lost and dies. [[spoiler: And it comes true in the ending "A Painting's Demise". Poor Mary.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding[=/=]EarnYourBadEnding: The endings [[TheBadGuyWins "Together, Forever,"]] [[BittersweetEnding "Memory's Crannies,"]] and [[NonStandardGameOver "Ib All Alone"]] are quite simple to get, and while [[DownerEnding "Forgotten Portrait"]] is a bit trickier as you have to do a bit of backtracking to obtain it, it's not by much. However, you have to go out of your way for the best ending, [[GoldenEnding "Promise of Reunion,"]] as you [[spoiler: have to avoid adding points to Garry's doom counter ''and'' be sure you've formed a strong bond with him.]] And the two worst endings, [[ShootTheShaggyDog "Welcome to the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise,"]] you also have to go out of your way for. With "Welcome to the World of Guertena" in particular, you have to [[spoiler: screw up about as much as it is possible to screw up, meet one or two other requirements, ''and'' form a strong bond with Mary.]]
* EldritchLocation: The phantom Guertena art gallery, from the entrance at "Abyss of the Deep" to the exit at [[spoiler: "Fabricated World."]]

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* DyingAlone: At one point, Ib finds a grim little storybook about a little girl who gets lost and dies. [[spoiler:And it comes true in the ending "A Painting's Demise". Poor Mary.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding[=/=]EarnYourBadEnding: The endings [[TheBadGuyWins "Together, Forever,"]] [[BittersweetEnding "Memory's Crannies,"]] and [[NonStandardGameOver "Ib All Alone"]] are quite simple to get, and while [[DownerEnding "Forgotten Portrait"]] is a bit trickier, as you have to do a bit of backtracking to obtain it, it's not by much. However, you have to go out of your way for the best ending, [[GoldenEnding "Promise of Reunion,"]] as you [[spoiler:have to avoid adding points to Garry's doom counter ''and'' be sure you've formed a strong bond with him.]] And the two worst endings, [[ShootTheShaggyDog "Welcome to the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise,"]] you also have to go out of your way for. With "Welcome to the World of Guertena" in particular, you have to [[spoiler:screw up about as much as it is possible to screw up, meet one or two other requirements, ''and'' form a strong bond with Mary.]]
* EldritchLocation: The phantom Guertena art gallery, from the entrance at "Abyss of the Deep" to the exit at [[spoiler:"Fabricated World."]]

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* FlowerMotifs: All of the character's roses have floriography meanings significant to their personalities. According to [[http://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-for-your-home-garden/holidays-a-occassions/the-meaning-of-the-color-of-roses.html Sensational Color,]] Ib's red rose "can convey thoughts of courage and congratulations" fitting her role as the protagonist of a horror game. Garry's blue rose is a color impossible in nature and "are actually variations of purple or lavender, which look blue in certain light. However, you wouldn't really want to send a blue rose to someone, as it means [[spoiler: a figment of the imagination, or something unobtainable."]] As for aforementioned purple roses, "It is said if someone gives you a purple rose it means they fell in love with you at first sight" which, [[TheFourLoves if you see the love as in a family or friendship based bond,]] can go well with his role as an older brother-like figure to Ib despite just meeting her. Mary's yellow roses say that "In German culture these beauties are a symbol of [[spoiler: infidelity and dying love,]] but more traditionally they're a symbol of friendship and happiness." the latter of which matches her upbeat personality and how she quickly made friends with Ib after joining the group while foreshadowing [[spoiler: her true intentions for going with them,]] and in the Japanese variant of floriography yellow roses still represent friendship, but they can also stand for [[spoiler: envy.]]
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: During [[spoiler: the doll room event,]] a bell rings ominously every time [[spoiler: the giant doll comes a little further out of the painting.]]

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* FlowerMotifs: All of the characters' roses have floriography meanings significant to their personalities. According to [[http://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-for-your-home-garden/holidays-a-occassions/the-meaning-of-the-color-of-roses.html Sensational Color]], Ib's red rose "can convey thoughts of courage and congratulations", fitting her role as the protagonist of a horror game. Garry's blue rose is a color impossible in nature and "are actually variations of purple or lavender, which look blue in certain light. However, you wouldn't really want to send a blue rose to someone, as it means [[spoiler:a figment of the imagination, or something unobtainable."]] As for aforementioned purple roses, "It is said if someone gives you a purple rose, it means they fell in love with you at first sight", which, [[TheFourLoves if you see the love as in a family or friendship-based bond]], can go well with his role as an older brother-like figure to Ib despite just meeting her. Mary's yellow roses say that "In German culture, these beauties are a symbol of [[spoiler:infidelity and dying love,]] but more traditionally they're a symbol of friendship and happiness.", the latter of which matches her upbeat personality and how she quickly made friends with Ib after joining the group while foreshadowing [[spoiler:her true intentions for going with them,]] and in the Japanese variant of floriography, yellow roses still represent friendship, but they can also stand for [[spoiler:envy.]]
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: During [[spoiler:the doll room event]], a bell rings ominously every time [[spoiler:the giant doll comes a little further out of the painting.]]

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** One of the bookcases in the game reads "The girls here like to play 'Loves me, Loves me not'", and in 1.04, [[spoiler: Mary brings up "Loves me, loves me not" during her psychotic breakdown in the brown area.]] This foreshadows [[spoiler: Garry's fate when Mary obtains his rose.]]
** Garry occasionally comments that the gallery isn't good for his mental health. It sounds perfectly innocuous, but if [[spoiler: he fails to find the key in the Doll Room and escape in time, he does go mad, albeit temporarily.]] In 1.04, depending on player actions up to that point, [[spoiler: failing to escape the Doll Room can drive him more permanently insane, and this event is the trigger for two of the worst endings in the game.]]
** In the brown area Ib can find a book that tells a grim tale of a little girl who gets lost in an art gallery, collapses and dies. You'd think it's just something creepy directed at Ib, but it turns out to [[spoiler: describe basically what happens to Mary in the "A Painting's Demise" ending.]]

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** One of the bookcases in the game reads "The girls here like to play 'Loves me, Loves me not'", and in 1.04, [[spoiler:Mary brings up "Loves me, loves me not" during her psychotic breakdown in the brown area.]] This foreshadows [[spoiler:Garry's fate when Mary obtains his rose.]]
** Garry occasionally comments that the gallery isn't good for his mental health. It sounds perfectly innocuous, but if [[spoiler:he fails to find the key in the Doll Room and escape in time, he does go mad, albeit temporarily.]] In 1.04, depending on player actions up to that point, [[spoiler:failing to escape the Doll Room can drive him more permanently insane, and this event is the trigger for two of the worst endings in the game.]]
** In the brown area, Ib can find a book that tells a grim tale of a little girl who gets lost in an art gallery, collapses, and dies. You'd think it's just something creepy directed at Ib, but it turns out to [[spoiler:describe basically what happens to Mary in the "A Painting's Demise" ending.]]

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* ItWasHereISwear: If Garry [[spoiler: gets captured by the dolls and forgets Mary's secret,]] then later when Ib and Mary find him, you can go back into the library. If you return to the bookcase where Garry learned [[spoiler: Mary's a painting]], you find that someone switched out the page containing that bit of information with a different page. While Garry can't remember and so doesn't say anything to his companions about it, he is very bothered by the swapped page and Mary even asks him if there's something wrong.
* JumpScare: There are a few and are evenly distributed throughout the game so as to maximize the effectiveness of said scares.
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll:]] In the "A Painting's Demise" ending, [[spoiler: Ib and Garry both go utterly insane, are trapped in the painting world forever, and since they can't escape they'll probably die there. Mary tries to escape herself, and ends up collapsing before she can reach her goal.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Tearing down or removing Mary's painting won't work. To kill her, you have to burn her painting with Garry's lighter. This is also the case for the vines blocking Mary's room.]]
* KnightsAndKnaves: At one point Ib comes across a "Liar's Hallway", where all of the inhabitants except one lie to her about which tile to pull up in the next room. Pull up a tile a liar pointed you to and you get hit with poison and lose two petals; pull up the tile the single truth-teller tells you and you can proceed in your quest. [[spoiler: And then when you return to the room the liars have killed the truth-teller.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In a normal play-through, [[spoiler: failing the Doll Room event]] causes Garry to [[spoiler: be driven insane.]] Ib is able to save him, but he forgets something very important he just learned. As of 1.04 though, if you've played really really poorly before that point, [[spoiler: he completely forgets everything and never regains his sanity after failing the Doll Room event, and you're in for a very bad ending.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Breaking lots of artwork is generally not a good idea and smashing or kicking the {{Creepy Doll}}s and mannequin heads will lock you out of the game's best endings. And as of 1.04, if you do ''really'' bad, [[spoiler: the game cuts short around the Doll Room event]] and you're stuck with one or the other of the game's worst endings.

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* ItWasHereISwear: If Garry [[spoiler:gets captured by the dolls and forgets Mary's secret]], then later, when Ib and Mary find him, you can go back into the library. If you return to the bookcase where Garry learned [[spoiler:Mary's a painting]], you find that someone switched out the page containing that bit of information with a different page. While Garry can't remember and so doesn't say anything to his companions about it, he is very bothered by the swapped page, and Mary even asks him if there's something wrong.
* JumpScare: There are a few, and they are evenly distributed throughout the game so as to maximize the effectiveness of said scares.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll:]] In the "A Painting's Demise" ending, [[spoiler:Ib and Garry both go utterly insane, are trapped in the painting world forever, and since they can't escape, they'll probably die there. Mary tries to escape herself, and ends up collapsing before she can reach her goal.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Tearing down or removing Mary's painting won't work. To kill her, you have to burn her painting with Garry's lighter. This is also the case for the vines blocking Mary's room.]]
* KnightsAndKnaves: At one point, Ib comes across a "Liar's Hallway", where all of the inhabitants except one lie to her about which tile to pull up in the next room. Pull up a tile a liar pointed you to and you get hit with poison and lose two petals; pull up the tile the single truth-teller tells you and you can proceed in your quest. [[spoiler:And then when you return to the room, the liars have killed the truth-teller.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In a normal play-through, [[spoiler:failing the Doll Room event]] causes Garry to [[spoiler:be driven insane.]] Ib is able to save him, but he forgets something very important he just learned. As of 1.04, though, if you've played really really poorly before that point, [[spoiler:he completely forgets everything and never regains his sanity after failing the Doll Room event, and you're in for a very bad ending.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Breaking lots of artwork is generally not a good idea, and smashing or kicking the {{Creepy Doll}}s and mannequin heads will lock you out of the game's best endings. And as of 1.04, if you do ''really'' bad, [[spoiler:the game cuts short around the Doll Room event]] and you're stuck with one or the other of the game's worst endings.

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** [[NonstandardGameOver Ib All Alone:]] [[spoiler: Instead of escaping the painting world, Ib follows an illusion of either Garry or her mom. Or, she decides to [[PressXToDie step back from the exit painting for no reason]] instead of taking the opportunity to jump in.]]
*** 1.04 adds a new Ib All Alone [[spoiler: in the BonusDungeon, where Ib can sleep in "Final Stage". Sleeping through all the opportunities to open her eyes will result in this ending.]]
** [[NonstandardGameOver Welcome]] [[DespairEventHorizon To The]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog World Of Guertena:]] [[spoiler: No one escapes. Garry goes insane in the doll room, Ib suffers a DespairEventHorizon, and Mary gives up her dream of going to the human world, instead deciding to keep Ib and Garry with her. Forever.]]
** [[DownerEnding A Painting's]] [[TragicDream Demise:]] [[spoiler: Gary is driven incurably insane by the Doll Room, and Ib is too distraught over his condition to do more than collapse. Mary leaves them in the Doll Room and continues her escape, but she finds herself unable to leave the Gallery itself despite her successful escape from the Fabricated World.]]
** [[RememberTheNewGuy Together,]] [[TheBadGuyWins Forever:]] Ib escapes [[spoiler: alone, with Garry dead, but doesn't realize that Mary follows her. Ib loses all memories of the painting world, and everyone including Ib remembers Mary as her sister. Plus, Mary kills Garry and [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it.]]]]
** [[ForgottenFallenFriend Forgotten]] [[HeroicSacrifice Portrait:]] Ib escapes, but [[spoiler: Mary and Garry are dead, with Garry having saved Ib from Mary. Ib doesn't remember any of this, even when she sees a new portrait in the art gallery depicting a deceased Garry.]]
** [[BitterSweetEnding Memory's Crannies]] Ib escapes with [[spoiler: Garry... but none of them remember any of their adventure or each other.]]
** [[GoldenEnding Promise Of Reunion:]] Ib escapes with [[spoiler: Garry... but none of them remember anything. At least until Garry checks the handkerchief Ib gave him.]]
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler: Possibly in the "Welcome to the World of Guertena" ending. At the very least, Ib's rose looked awful wilted and neither she nor Garry were moving or reacting at all as Mary had the whole gallery celebrating her having made two "friends".]]
** [[spoiler: One of the ladies is holding Garry's rose. [[FridgeHorror You know, the ones that like to play Loves Me, Loves Me Not...]]]]

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** [[NonstandardGameOver Ib All Alone]]: [[spoiler:Instead of escaping the painting world, Ib follows an illusion of either Garry or her mom. Or, she decides to [[PressXToDie step back from the exit painting for no reason]] instead of taking the opportunity to jump in.]]
*** 1.04 adds a new Ib All Alone [[spoiler:in the BonusDungeon, where Ib can sleep in "Final Stage". Sleeping through all the opportunities to open her eyes will result in this ending.]]
** [[NonstandardGameOver Welcome]] [[DespairEventHorizon To The]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog World Of Guertena]]: [[spoiler:No one escapes. Garry goes insane in the doll room, Ib suffers a DespairEventHorizon, and Mary gives up her dream of going to the human world, instead deciding to keep Ib and Garry with her. Forever.]]
** [[DownerEnding A Painting's]] [[TragicDream Demise:]] [[spoiler:Gary is driven incurably insane by the Doll Room, and Ib is too distraught over his condition to do more than collapse. Mary leaves them in the Doll Room and continues her escape, but she finds herself unable to leave the Gallery itself despite her successful escape from the Fabricated World.]]
** [[RememberTheNewGuy Together,]] [[TheBadGuyWins Forever:]] Ib escapes [[spoiler:alone, with Garry dead, but doesn't realize that Mary follows her. Ib loses all memories of the painting world, and everyone, including Ib, remembers Mary as her sister. Plus, Mary kills Garry and [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it.]]]]
** [[ForgottenFallenFriend Forgotten]] [[HeroicSacrifice Portrait]]: Ib escapes, but [[spoiler:Mary and Garry are dead, with Garry having saved Ib from Mary. Ib doesn't remember any of this, even when she sees a new portrait in the art gallery depicting a deceased Garry.]]
** [[BitterSweetEnding Memory's Crannies]]: Ib escapes with [[spoiler:Garry... but none of them remember any of their adventure or each other.]]
** [[GoldenEnding Promise Of Reunion:]] Ib escapes with [[spoiler:Garry... but none of them remember anything. At least until Garry checks the handkerchief Ib gave him.]]
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Possibly in the "Welcome to the World of Guertena" ending. At the very least, Ib's rose looked awful wilted, and neither she nor Garry were moving or reacting at all as Mary had the whole gallery celebrating her having made two "friends".]]
** [[spoiler:One of the ladies is holding Garry's rose. [[FridgeHorror You know, the ones that like to play Loves Me, Loves Me Not...]]]]

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** Any variation of "Ib All Alone", [[spoiler: in which you decide to stay in the painted world for some reason or another.]]
** Both the "Welcome to the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise" endings. [[spoiler: The game gets cut short around the Doll Room event, and you never reach the final chapter. Garry and Ib go insane in the doll room, which means they're unable to escape and remain trapped forever. Mary decides to stay with them in the former ending, and in the latter she attempts to leave on her own and ends up dying horribly for her efforts.]]
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler: Mary herself. She loves Ib, always wanted to make REAL friends and live in the REAL world. Even her ending with Ib shows they are happy. Together Forever]]
** [[spoiler: That, and it's implied that other people have come into the Fabricated World before, and she as a painting has existed for decades. Early on at least, it's extremely likely that she probably tried to subvert her restriction on leaving unless she kills someone, so what she does can be seen as an act of desperation rather than contempt for life.]]
** [[spoiler: The artworks in the gallery in general. The mannequins mostly seem curious about Ib and Garry and if Ib and Garry don't harm them they don't bother them so much. The Ladies attack just because it's in their nature since Guertena based them on greedy women, not out of any particular malice. The dolls harass Garry so much because he's the biggest threat to Mary's happiness. And Mary herself only really acts violently to Ib and Garry if they do something that she really feels threatened by.]]

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** Any variation of "Ib All Alone", [[spoiler:in which you decide to stay in the painted world for some reason or another.]]
** Both the "Welcome to the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise" endings. [[spoiler:The game gets cut short around the Doll Room event, and you never reach the final chapter. Garry and Ib go insane in the doll room, which means they're unable to escape and remain trapped forever. Mary decides to stay with them in the former ending, and in the latter, she attempts to leave on her own and ends up dying horribly for her efforts.]]
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler:Mary herself. She loves Ib, always wanted to make REAL friends and live in the REAL world. Even her ending with Ib shows they are happy. Together Forever.]]
** [[spoiler:That, and it's implied that other people have come into the Fabricated World before, and she as a painting has existed for decades. Early on, at least, it's extremely likely that she probably tried to subvert her restriction on leaving unless she kills someone, so what she does can be seen as an act of desperation rather than contempt for life.]]
** [[spoiler:The artworks in the gallery in general. The mannequins mostly seem curious about Ib and Garry, and if Ib and Garry don't harm them they don't bother them so much. The Ladies attack just because it's in their nature since Guertena based them on greedy women, not out of any particular malice. The dolls harass Garry so much because he's the biggest threat to Mary's happiness. And Mary herself only really acts violently to Ib and Garry if they do something that she really feels threatened by.]]

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Mary does this in the ending "A Painting's Demise". Garry and Ib both lose it in the doll room and Mary promptly gives up on them and tries to find a way out on her own. This doesn't go too well for Mary.]]
* SelectiveCondemnation: Kick over a mannequin? Bad. Push over one mannequin in the room and break the floor in the process while ignoring the other two mannequins? Fine. Accidentally kill a doll you didn't even know was there, or kick a doll over in frustration? Bad. Ripping a doll's stomach open and stealing her treasure? Fine. [[spoiler: Setting the painted girl on fire because she went crazy?]] Only way to proceed if you're on the path for a good ending.
* [[spoiler: ShootTheShaggyDog:]] The endings "Welcome To the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise". [[spoiler: None of them make it. In both endings Garry succumbs to madness and Ib loses the will to live. In the former ending Mary gives up on the idea of escaping to the real world because she can't bear to leave Ib, and in the latter one Mary ditches Ib and Garry and tries to find a way out herself, and ends up dying in the process.]]
* SoulJar: If Ib or Garry's roses wilt completely, then they will die. [[spoiler: And considering that Mary's rose is fake, her Soul Jar is her portrait that you must [[KillItWithFire burn down.]]]]

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Mary does this in the ending "A Painting's Demise". Garry and Ib both lose it in the doll room and Mary promptly gives up on them and tries to find a way out on her own. This doesn't go too well for Mary.]]
* SelectiveCondemnation: Kick over a mannequin? Bad. Push over one mannequin in the room and break the floor in the process while ignoring the other two mannequins? Fine. Accidentally kill a doll you didn't even know was there, or kick a doll over in frustration? Bad. Ripping a doll's stomach open and stealing her treasure? Fine. [[spoiler:Setting the painted girl on fire because she went crazy?]] Only way to proceed if you're on the path for a good ending.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog:]] The endings "Welcome To the World of Guertena" and "A Painting's Demise". [[spoiler:None of them make it. In both endings, Garry succumbs to madness and Ib loses the will to live. In the former ending, Mary gives up on the idea of escaping to the real world because she can't bear to leave Ib, and in the latter one, Mary ditches Ib and Garry and tries to find a way out herself, and ends up dying in the process.]]
* SoulJar: If Ib or Garry's roses wilt completely, then they will die. [[spoiler:And considering that Mary's rose is fake, her Soul Jar is her portrait that you must [[KillItWithFire burn down.]]]]

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* TheStoolPigeon: Two paintings combine tattling forces together to make life harder for Garry. Garry learns [[spoiler: Mary is actually one of Guertena's artworks,]] and makes the mistake of saying it out loud. The "Strained Ear" painting hears it. "Tattletale" tells it. [[spoiler: Mary now knows that Garry knows. Cue her having a psychotic breakdown and the dolls trapping Garry and trying to make him forget.]]
* StrangeGirl: Mary, who [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny gets distracted by pretty colors]] when Garry is trying to tell her about the importance of keeping their roses safe, suggests that a palette knife could maybe cut through stone (although if Ib agrees with her on that one she claims she's just kidding), rambles about confections and scarves and snow, and just kinda seems like she's not all there. She's also strange visually; [[WordOfGod kouri states on his website that he deliberately colored her with brighter colors than Ib and Garry.]]
* StylisticSuck: The sketchbook area, which looks like doodles (and smells like crayon if Garry is to be believed). [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that unlike the rest of the gallery, it was created by Mary and not Guertena.]]

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* TheStoolPigeon: Two paintings combine tattling forces together to make life harder for Garry. Garry learns [[spoiler:Mary is actually one of Guertena's artworks,]] and makes the mistake of saying it out loud. The "Strained Ear" painting hears it. "Tattletale" tells it. [[spoiler:Mary now knows that Garry knows. Cue her having a psychotic breakdown and the dolls trapping Garry and trying to make him forget.]]
* StrangeGirl: Mary, who [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny gets distracted by pretty colors]] when Garry is trying to tell her about the importance of keeping their roses safe, suggests that a palette knife could maybe cut through stone (although if Ib agrees with her on that one, she claims she's just kidding), rambles about confections and scarves and snow, and just kinda seems like she's not all there. She's also strange visually; [[WordOfGod kouri states on his website that he deliberately colored her with brighter colors than Ib and Garry.]]
* StylisticSuck: The sketchbook area, which looks like doodles (and smells like crayon if Garry is to be believed). [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that unlike the rest of the gallery, it was created by Mary and not Guertena.]]

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* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler: Garry will offer up his own rose to Mary in return for Ib's in certain story paths. Which Mary likely wanted from the start.]]
* TarotMotifs: Garry is associated with The Hanged Man; he is seen looking at an image of "The Hanged Man" at the start of the game, certain circumstances gives you a "Hanged Garry" message, and [[spoiler: one of the endings has a picture of Garry replace "The Hanged Man" in the gallery.]] Given that "The Hanged Man" can symbolize [[spoiler: self-sacrifice]] and/or [[spoiler: entrapment,]] this becomes significant in two of the endings where Garry [[spoiler: sacrifices his life to save Ib]] and two of the other endings where he [[spoiler: becomes trapped by insanity.]]
* TastesLikeFriendship: Garry gives Ib a lemon hard candy to cheer her up after their near fatal encounter with a mob of monster artworks. [[spoiler: In the best possible ending, Garry mentions this candy to help Ib remember all the trials they went through if she had forgotten.]]

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* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:Garry will offer up his own rose to Mary in return for Ib's in certain story paths. Which Mary likely wanted from the start.]]
* TarotMotifs: Garry is associated with The Hanged Man; he is seen looking at an image of "The Hanged Man" at the start of the game, certain circumstances give you a "Hanged Garry" message, and [[spoiler:one of the endings has a picture of Garry replace "The Hanged Man" in the gallery.]] Given that "The Hanged Man" can symbolize [[spoiler:self-sacrifice]] and/or [[spoiler:entrapment]], this becomes significant in two of the endings where Garry [[spoiler:sacrifices his life to save Ib]] and two of the other endings where he [[spoiler: becomes trapped by insanity.]]
* TastesLikeFriendship: Garry gives Ib a lemon hard candy to cheer her up after their near fatal encounter with a mob of monster artworks. [[spoiler:In the best possible ending, Garry mentions this candy to help Ib remember all the trials they went through if she had forgotten.]]

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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: As one book discloses: "If your spirit suffers too much, you will soon start to hallucinate and in the end you will be destroyed. And more worrying yet is that [[ParanoiaFuel you will not even be conscious of that fact."]] [[spoiler: At first, it seems like it's Garry who's hallucinating because he sees {{Creepy Doll}}s instead of the cute bunnies that Ib and Mary apparently see. However, it turns out that they were dolls all along ([[CreepyChild which Mary actually thinks are cute for some reason,]]) and it was just Ib who saw them as bunnies. If the bond with Garry is too low or you let him kick the mannequin, you'll see the giant creepy doll pop up in certain spots. Ib also sees other hallucinations like herself hanged, or illusions of Garry and Ib's mother appearing to try to convince her to stay behind and not jump into the painting back to the real world in some endings.]]
* TimedMission: [[spoiler: The second doll room, where Garry has to locate a key and escape the room he's trapped in before the giant doll gets him.]] If you fail this, you do not get a game over [[spoiler: in most circumstances,]] but it does make you more likely to get a bad ending.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: In some of the bad endings, Garry's lighter or the candy he gave to Ib would have most likely become this for Ib when Garry died the phantom gallery. That is, if Mary didn't discard the lighter or eat the candy to prevent Ib from remembering Garry's sacrifice.]]
* TheTragicRose: Roses might represent life in this game, but this means that it's all too easy for them to wilt away or have their petals [[LovesMeNot plucked away to nothing.]] There's also a sculpture of a thorny rose in the gallery titled "Embodiment of Spirit" and is described as "beautiful at first glance, but if you get too close, it will induce pain".
* TroubledFetalPosition: In two of the endings, [[spoiler: Ib does this when she finds that Garry has gone utterly insane and she can't fix him. She never gets up again. Even Mary finds this troubling.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The game apparently takes place in the year 6000 but there's no real indication of this since the books could simply be lying.
* UnfortunateNames: The I in Ib's name looks like a lower case "L" in some fonts, "lb" is a common symbol for [[AmericanCustomaryMeasurements pounds.]] Poor girl would be subject to a bazillion fat jokes in school...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: When Garry is about to smash the stalking mannequin head in fear, Ib has the option of stopping him or simply covering her eyes. When the creepy doll is following Garry, Garry has the option of kicking it into the wall or nonviolently moving it out of the way. When Ib is in a room with three mannequins, she only has to break one of them but you can opt to break all three.

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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: As one book discloses: "If your spirit suffers too much, you will soon start to hallucinate and in the end you will be destroyed. And more worrying yet is that [[ParanoiaFuel you will not even be conscious of that fact."]] [[spoiler:At first, it seems like it's Garry who's hallucinating because he sees {{Creepy Doll}}s instead of the cute bunnies that Ib and Mary apparently see. However, it turns out that they were dolls all along ([[CreepyChild which Mary actually thinks are cute for some reason]]), and it was just Ib who saw them as bunnies. If the bond with Garry is too low or you let him kick the mannequin, you'll see the giant creepy doll pop up in certain spots. Ib also sees other hallucinations like herself hanged, or illusions of Garry and Ib's mother appearing to try to convince her to stay behind and not jump into the painting back to the real world in some endings.]]
* TimedMission: [[spoiler:The second doll room, where Garry has to locate a key and escape the room he's trapped in before the giant doll gets him.]] If you fail this, you do not get a game over [[spoiler:in most circumstances]], but it does make you more likely to get a bad ending.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:In some of the bad endings, Garry's lighter or the candy he gave to Ib would have most likely become this for Ib when Garry died in the phantom gallery. That is, if Mary didn't discard the lighter or eat the candy to prevent Ib from remembering Garry's sacrifice.]]
* TheTragicRose: Roses might represent life in this game, but this means that it's all too easy for them to wilt away or have their petals [[LovesMeNot plucked away to nothing]]. There's also a sculpture of a thorny rose in the gallery titled "Embodiment of Spirit" and is described as "beautiful at first glance, but if you get too close, it will induce pain".
* TroubledFetalPosition: In two of the endings, [[spoiler:Ib does this when she finds that Garry has gone utterly insane and she can't fix him. She never gets up again. Even Mary finds this troubling.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The game apparently takes place in the year 6000, but there's no real indication of this, since the books could simply be lying (or set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture themselves).
* UnfortunateNames: The I in Ib's name looks like a lower case "L" in some fonts; "lb" is a common symbol for [[AmericanCustomaryMeasurements pounds.]] Poor girl would be subject to a bazillion fat jokes in school...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: When Garry is about to smash the stalking mannequin head in fear, Ib has the option of stopping him or simply covering her eyes. When the creepy doll is following Garry, Garry has the option of kicking it into the wall or nonviolently moving it out of the way. When Ib is in a room with three mannequins, she only has to break one of them, but you can opt to break all three.

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* {{Wackyland}}: The sketchbook area. [[spoiler: It ends up that it's where Mary lived and kept her painting safe.]]
* WhamEpisode: Ep. 3, which would be the part of the game set in the violet and brown areas. It is in this part of the game that [[spoiler: Garry learns Mary's a painting and Mary has a psychotic breakdown. It's possible for your game to end here; Garry then gets caught by dolls, and if they drive him insane and Ib sinks into despair, Mary either keeps them in her world forever or tries to leave and dies. If that doesn't happen, Mary later tries to attack one of them, leading to them having to split off from her for their own safety.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Played with confusingly. On the one hand, [[spoiler: Mary]] is given a lot of development and clearly identifiably sentient, on the other hand in order to get the best ending [[spoiler: you have to kill her]] and after you've done so [[spoiler: Garry comments not that they just killed their former friend but that they just destroyed one of Guertena's masterpieces.]] On the one hand, you have to rip apart dolls at least a couple times in order to proceed as one of them has something you need to solve the paint puzzle and another one is holding the key you need to leave a certain area, but on the other hand kicking dolls and mannequins over might lock you out of the good endings. On the one hand Ib thinks nothing of destroying the ant's painting, on the other hand when Garry says he wants to stomp on the ant Ib doesn't let him.

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* {{Wackyland}}: The sketchbook area. [[spoiler:It ends up that it's where Mary lived and kept her painting safe.]]
* WhamEpisode: Ep. 3, which would be the part of the game set in the violet and brown areas. It is in this part of the game that [[spoiler:Garry learns Mary's a painting and Mary has a psychotic breakdown. It's possible for your game to end here; Garry then gets caught by dolls, and if they drive him insane and Ib sinks into despair, Mary either keeps them in her world forever or tries to leave and dies. If that doesn't happen, Mary later tries to attack one of them, leading to them having to split off from her for their own safety.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Played with confusingly. On the one hand, [[spoiler:Mary]] is given a lot of development and is clearly identifiably sentient; on the other hand, in order to get the best ending, [[spoiler:you have to kill her]], and after you've done so, [[spoiler:Garry comments not that they just killed their former friend, but that they just destroyed one of Guertena's masterpieces.]] On the one hand, you have to rip apart dolls at least a couple times in order to proceed, as one of them has something you need to solve the paint puzzle and another one is holding the key you need to leave a certain area, but on the other hand, kicking dolls and mannequins over might lock you out of the good endings. On the one hand, Ib thinks nothing of destroying the ant's painting; on the other hand. when Garry says he wants to stomp on the ant, Ib doesn't let him.

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