History VisualNovel / TimeHollow

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Irving, ''big time''. At one point in the story, he says the Kairos family exists to torture him. There are two problems with his theory; one, ''he's'' the one doing the torturing every time he screws up the timeline and does something nasty to Ethan's parents or friends. Two, he thinks the Kairos family is torturing him by killing his mother, Mary. But Mary is actually killing ''herself''...and she's doing this because ''Irving keeps deciding to kill Kori''!]]

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Averted in the extremely short NewGamePlus.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: A consequence of Hollow Pen overusage, due to its properties. All users of the Hollow Pen (save for Ethan) look much older than their actual age.

* CatsAreMean: Ethan gets a nasty scratch at the beginning of the game when he tries to [[HatesBaths bath Sox]].

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Ethan turns 17 when he's given the Hollow Pen. He'll need it to repair the horrible deaths of his friends and family throughout the game.

''Time Hollow'' is a point and-click AdventureGame[=/=]VisualNovel for the Nintendo DS developed by Tenky and published by Creator/{{Konami}}. The player takes the role of Ethan Kairos, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent living with his parents, starting on the evening before his seventeenth [[TheHerosBirthday birthday]]. However, during the night, Ethan dreams that his parents are caught in a fire, and upon waking discovers that he lives with his uncle and his parents disappeared twelve years ago. He then inherits a Hollow Pen: an [[InvisibleToNormals invisible]] pen that can create holes through time. With this, Ethan tries to find out what happened to his parents and stop it from occuring. However, a figure from the past is always one step ahead...

* MeaningfulName: "Kairos", according to Wiki/ThatOtherWiki, refers to the exact moment an action must be taken for it to work.

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* AerithAndBob: Ethan, Timothy, Pamela, Derek, Irving, Mary, Jack, Vin, Ashley, Ben, Morris, Eva, Aaron, Olivia, Emily, Sara, Jacob... Kori, which is just an [[MyNaymeIs unusual spelling]] of Cory.

* KnifeNut: [[spoiler:Irving]] seems to have knives as his weapon of choice. [[spoiler:Mary even mentions that stopping him from pushing Kori just leads to him stabbing her.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: The cute Emily wears a pair of glasses.

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: ''Ben Fourier'' of all people, whom Ethan describes in his profile as "kind of a wuss, but not a bad guy", has one. The berserk button is dogs. When Ben was a child, he was taking care of a dog named Shiloh, but one day there was a huge lightning storm that set the treehouse on fire... and Ben ''forgot to untie Shiloh from the treehouse before he left,'' causing Shiloh to burn to death. Ben is tormented with guilt, so when he sees a dog named Lucky, he flips out and starts hitting the dog. The little boy who owns the dog calls for help, Aaron comes out of the cafe to investigate the commotion, and his attempt to save the boy from Ben causes the two of them to fight, which depending on whether Ben has access to pliers or Aaron has access to a rock will end up with either Ben or Aaron hospitalized/dead.]]
** [[spoiler: And Emily Niner has a more minor example: as Ashley finds out the hard way in one alternate reality, if Ashley loses money that would've bought Ethan a present, this makes Emily mad enough to shout at Ashley, and if the flashback's picture is accurate even apparently shove Ashley to the ground.]]

* MysteriousWaif: Kori, who suddenly appears in Ethan's classroom as a student despite never being there before

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness segment.

* TakingTheBullet: It's a knife, but [[spoiler: Kori jumps in front of Ethan, when Irving tries to kill the other Hollow Pen user.]]

* TimeStandsStill: Whenever someone uses a Hollow Pen, this happens to any non-user. [[spoiler:Or those pulled out of time.]]