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* AxCrazy: Emile and played literally with [[spoiler:Franz]].
** [[spoiler: The protagonist of Dear Martel when he's infected with Epicari.]]
* TheBaroness: Emile. Also fits EvilIsSexy.

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Emile and played literally with [[spoiler:Franz]].
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* %%* TheBaroness: Emile. Also fits EvilIsSexy.Emile.
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* HotScientist: Maylee.
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** [[UpToEleven Taken Up to Eleven]] during ''Dear Martel'' as after the protagonist crashes through a window and loses consciousness for a while, he awakes to find the hospital slowly being taken over by a purple mold growing along the floors, walls, and ceilings. For the most part, the player is prevented from exploring the now corrupted areas until later, where the doctor finds himself smack in the middle of the infected hallways and trying his best to not breathe in the air surrounding him. In fact, one room has the disease congealing into a purple sludge pooling all around.

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** [[UpToEleven Taken Up to Eleven]] Exaggerated during ''Dear Martel'' as after the protagonist crashes through a window and loses consciousness for a while, he awakes to find the hospital slowly being taken over by a purple mold growing along the floors, walls, and ceilings. For the most part, the player is prevented from exploring the now corrupted areas until later, where the doctor finds himself smack in the middle of the infected hallways and trying his best to not breathe in the air surrounding him. In fact, one room has the disease congealing into a purple sludge pooling all around.
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** How does Emile handle Sacha and Leanne's growing friendship? ''By grabbing a freaking knife and advancing on the poor boy with the intention of killing him'', which is stopped only by a friar jumping in the way to stop her and getting shanked himself for his trouble, dying before he even hits the ground. This seems especially MORE disproportionate when you consider that Emile doesn't seem to mind Leanne's relationship with Maylee or the bishop. This makes much more sense in the overall scheme of things when remembering that Sacha is a young boy falling for Leanne and later proposes the two run away together to escape the war and the isolation at the church. [[spoiler:Gruesome as it is, killing Sacha later when he comes to Leanne's rescue may have actually ''saved'' her daughter's life as they would be two children running off on their own in the middle of the war if he had succeeded, whereas Maylee and the bishop had no such plans and otherwise left Leanne alone]].
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* LoveRedeems: Zigzagged all to hell and back for another round, so much so that sometimes it's never quite clear if this trope is played straight, averted, or subverted in certain cases. The latter half of ''Dear Emile'' focuses entirely on Leanne's attempts to learn more of the mother she loves, despite how bloodthirsty, violent, and sometimes abusive she was. [[spoiler:Ultimately seems to be played straight since it's her motherly love for Leanne that sees Emile gun down her own allies to protect her daughter. The traps she set were there to teach Leanne how to think for herself instead of thoughtlessly moving onward, as well as protect her from any further attempts on her life. Leanne becomes Emile's {{Morality Chain}} and somewhat smooths out her ruthless nature]].
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Maylee. While the entire story in both tales seems to be the result of a virus gone mad, Maylee's photo album reveals that she is the one who created Epicari. Not exactly villainous due to her [[TheAtoner regret]], she is still directly responsible for everything that has happened in both stories.]]
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** This point becomes a bit more chilling when you realize that, based on the timeline and when she says this, the orphanage is slowly descending into chaos due to Epicari, [[spoiler:which is exactly what Maylee wanted in order to kill Martel and take her brother for herself in her jealousy]]. The fact that she says love is a scam and equates it with ''murder'' [[spoiler:makes it sound like either weak justification for her actions or potential regret for what she had started]].

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** This point becomes a bit more chilling when you realize that, based on the timeline and when she says this, the orphanage is slowly descending into chaos due to Epicari, [[spoiler:which is exactly what Maylee wanted in order to kill Martel and take her brother for herself in her jealousy]]. The fact that she says love is a scam and equates it with ''murder'' [[spoiler:makes it sound like either weak justification for her actions or potential regret for what she had started]].started. Essentially, her "love is stupid and makes you do stupid things" is referring to herself]]. Later on, when Leanne mentions love, Maylee repeats this notion again [[spoiler:possibly in reference to what her jealousy cost her and those around her in the name of her "love".]]
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** This point becomes a bit more chilling when you realize that, based on the timeline and when she says this, the orphanage is slowly descending into chaos due to Epicari, [[spoiler:which is exactly what Maylee wanted in order to kill Martel and take her brother for herself in her jealousy]]. The fact that she says love is a scam and equates it with ''murder'' [[spoiler:makes it sound like either weak justification for her actions or potential regret for what she had started]].
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** In general, the entire game is about deconstructing the definition of two distinct themes: love and sin. ''Dear Emile'' focuses more on love; is it only being nice to someone and forming a bond (Sacha) or can even a rough and almost abusive nature (Emile) be a form of love in its own right? ''Dear Martel'' focuses more on sin; is it purposefully making immoral choices (Maylee) or can it include being unable to prevent terrible things from happening as well? (Martel's brother)
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** Sacha falls for Leanne during their time together at the church as he was also an orphan taken in and raised there. The feeling appears to be somewhat mutual, [[spoiler: despite the fact that Leanne is obviously confused with the notion of love after dealing with her mother's "tough love" tendencies.]] In the end, it is Sacha's love for Leanne [[spoiler: that gets him killed when Emile finds him trying to free Leanne from her bonds and run away with her. While her ''blowing his freakin head off'' is unquestioningly brutal, one has to wonder if he even thought ahead given that he's proposing running away ''in the middle of a war'', which would have just have likely resulted in both his and Leanne's deaths anyway.]]
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* TheCorruption: Epicari, a disease that exacerbates one's personal demons and drives its victims to the point of madness and finally death, is one. Upon death, a body turns purple, signifying that the disease has become airborne and must be burned immediately to prevent further exposure.
** [[UpToEleven Taken Up to Eleven]] during ''Dear Martel'' as after the protagonist crashes through a window and loses consciousness for a while, he awakes to find the hospital slowly being taken over by a purple mold growing along the floors, walls, and ceilings. For the most part, the player is prevented from exploring the now corrupted areas until later, where the doctor finds himself smack in the middle of the infected hallways and trying his best to not breathe in the air surrounding him. In fact, one room has the disease congealing into a purple sludge pooling all around.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Subtle, but present. The protagonist of Dear Martel wants [[spoiler: to punish himself for his perceived sins by essentially putting himself through two buildings filled to the brim with deathtraps everywhere.]] However, closer examination of the entire story reveals that [[spoiler: Maylee is the one who ultimately created Epicari in her jealousy, and the protagonist tried his hardest to save the children and his colleagues up to the very last minute. The only real crime he committed was murdering his sister, Martel, but even then, it was while under Epicari infection.]] Upon realizing this, his motivation to [[spoiler: punish himself for his "sins"]] seems a bit too much.


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* MyGreatestFailure: The doctor in Dear Martel essentially feels this way just before his amnesia and even once he's regained most or all of his memories as, despite his efforts, [[spoiler: he couldn't prevent the deaths of all the children and staff at the orphanage. Also, he succumbs to Epicari and strangles his own sister when she steps on a bug.]] In fact, one of the traps [[spoiler: that he sets for himself]] even calls him out on the failures, particularly those involving [[spoiler: having sex with Maylee during the chaos, Jean's death, and Franz's descent into madness after infection.]] Interestingly, this is the final puzzle in his story, and using those memories grants him the keys to the final few rooms of his story.
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* NothingIsScarier: Invoked upon the protagonists in an unusual twist on this trope. After encountering their first trap, both Leanne and Martel's brother have a small panic attack over the possibility of a murderer hiding out somewhere that could be out to get them. It takes them a while and a few more memories of what's truly going on before they let go of this fear, resulting in the death traps and dead bodies becoming a case of [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight]]. Can be pretty unnerving to a first time player as well.

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* NothingIsScarier: Invoked upon the protagonists in an unusual twist on this trope. After encountering their first trap, both Leanne and Martel's brother have a small panic attack over the possibility of a murderer hiding out somewhere that could be out to get them. It takes them a while and a few more memories of what's truly going on before they let go of this fear, resulting in the death traps and dead bodies becoming a case of [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight]].[[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Unusually Uninteresting Sight]] when they cease to even faze the characters anymore. Can be pretty unnerving to a first time player as well.
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* NothingIsScarier: Invoked upon the protagonists in an unusual twist on this trope. After encountering their first trap, both Leanne and Martel's brother have a small panic attack over the possibility of a murderer hiding out somewhere that could be out to get them. It takes them a while and a few more memories of what's truly going on before they let go of this fear, resulting in the death traps and dead bodies becoming a case of [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight]]. Can be pretty unnerving to a first time player as well.
** Leanne in particular is more subject to this than Martel's brother upon finding the first dead body in Dear Emile, not helped by the music suddenly shifting to a rather tense beat. First thing she does after getting the first key and returning to the room she woke up in is hide in there for a few moments to catch her breath and calm down.

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