History VisualNovel / TimeHollow

* ColourCodedTimestop: Everytime time stops, the world turns grey.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Ethan's ringtone is the game's theme song.

''Time Hollow'' is a point and-click AdventureGame / Visual Novel 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...

''Time Hollow'' is a point and-click AdventureGame for the Nintendo DS. 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...

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Uncle Derek exhibits this with [[spoiler:his younger self]] in the game's final timeline, as [[spoiler:after going back in time and saving Kori's life, he's show to have gone into hiding and watched his younger self grow up and marry the girl he loves.]]

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Of a sort. [[spoiler: After Kori is saved by uncle Derek, the ending cut scene reveals a [[IdenticalGrandson girl who looks extremely similar,]] and is implied to be his cousin.]]

* InvisibleToNormals: The hollow pens themselves can only be seen by other hollow pen users. Even former users can no longer see them.

* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Irving]] goes back in time several years ([[spoiler:thus escaping the flow of time]]), kills [[spoiler:Ethan's teacher]] and assumes his identity from then on. Ethan is the only one who remembers this thanks to his RippleEffectProofMemory -- the rest of the world doesn't know this impersonation ever happened.

* NewTransferStudent: Kori

* NumericalThemeNaming: Irving Onegin, Jack Twombly, Vin and Ashley Threet, Ben Fourier, Morris Fivet... This continues to Kori Twelves.

* RedHerring: At the beginning of the game, Derek comes over to borrow money from his brother Timothy, who refuses and scolds Derek for "relying" on the Kairos family. Derek loses his temper and accuses Timothy of always having been "down" on him, and then leaves while advising Timothy to watch his back. This makes Derek look incredibly suspicious, almost like he's going to be the villain of this story, complete with a motive...[[spoiler: nope, actually he's one of the ''heroes'' of this story, the villain turns out to be someone else entirely.]]

* SayingTooMuch: This is what first tips Ethan off that something's off about [[spoiler: Irving. When Ethan visits Irving's shop, Irving talks about two high school girls, namely Emily and Ashley, buying Ethan a clock for Ethan's birthday. But the reality in which that happened was wiped out of existence earlier in the game, so in this reality they only made cookies or a birthday card! So how the heck would Irving know about the reality in which they bought a clock... unless Irving also has a Hollow Pen?]]

* TimeTravel

* VehicularSabotage: In one timeline, Irving cuts the brakes on Olivia's bike, and she subsequently dies in an accident.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Near every action taken by Ethan and his allies throughout the entire story is for the purpose of fixing something Irving broke. Exceptions to this are by and large optional silly things like [[spoiler:accidentally stealing Emily's glasses]].

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Timothy Kairos, Irving and [[spoiler:Mary Onegin, all due to using Hollow Pens.]]

* 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.

* AnyoneCanDie: There are probably ''less'' named characters who don't die in one alternate timeline or other than ones that do.

%%* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Sox. Maybe.]]

* IdenticalGrandson: At the end of the game, [[spoiler:a girl with pink hair greets Ethan at Kako High School. She looks ''exactly'' as Kori. It's implied she's Kori and Derek's daughter.]]

* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Kori is stabbed with a knife in the back by Irving (or rather, Jack) at the end of the penultimate chapter. This makes her vanish of existence, as she had been displaced of time prior to the game's beginning.]]

%%* MindScrew: With so much time travel, how could it not be?

** He also prevents [[spoiler: Ben Fourier from killing Aaron by taking away his pliers, but that causes ''Aaron'' to win the fight instead and put Ben in the hospital. Or, if the player removed the pliers in advance, Aaron wins the fight first by shoving Ben down as Ben hits his head on a rock, so Ethan fixes it by moving the rock...but then Ben beats Aaron instead. The only real way to stop the fight is to go further back in time and save the life of a dog Ben left tied up in a fire, to prevent Ben from getting traumatic memories every time he sees a dog, which is what always starts a conflict between him and Aaron]].

* PowerPerversionPotential: Ethan can have lots of fun coping a feel of Emily and Ashley in some flashbacks.

* SayingTooMuch: This is what first tips Ethan off that something's off about [[spoiler: Irving. When Ethan visits Irving's shop, Irving talks about two high school girls, namely Emily and Ashley, buying Ethan a clock for Ethan's birthday. But the reality in which that happened was wiped out of existence earlier in the game, so in this reality they only made cookies or a birthday card! So how the heck would Irving know about the reality in which they bought a clock...unless Irving also has a Hollow Pen?]]

%%* SecondEpisodeMorning: In chapter one.

%%* TemporalParadox: Mostly averted.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ashley (rambunctious tomboy) and Emily (shy girly-girl..
* VehicularSabotage: In one timeline, Irving cuts the brakes on Olivia's bike, and she subsequently dies in an accident

%%* YouCantThwartStageOne: Averted in the extremely short NewGamePlus.

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

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

%%* {{Joshikousei}}: Kori, Emily and Ashley.

%%* MysteriousWaif: Kori

%%* NewTransferStudent: Kori

%%* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

%%* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The ending.]]

%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ashley and Emily.

* DopplegangerReplacementLoveInterest: Of a sort. [[spoiler: After Kori is saved by uncle Derek, the ending cut scene reveals a [[IdenticalGrandson girl who looks extremely similar,]] and is implied to be his cousin.]]

* NewGamePlus: After a fashion... [[spoiler:I mean, it's about twenty seconds long and lets you skip the entire game. Does it really count?]]
** There is a second one, which is nearly identical to the first except near the end.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The classic cliff drop.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Irving, after falling from a cliff.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog. The only way to save all of them is to not to fix the woman's bicycle, which is what Ethan did first to save the woman, but to fix the truck that caused the accident in the first place.

* NumericalThemeNaming: Irving Onegin, Jack Twombly, Vin and Ashley Threeth, Ben Fourier, Morris Fivet, this continues to Kori Twelve.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: [[spoiler:And do we ever learn who they are or what they want? No! They only speak in shadows ''once''.]]
** [[spoiler: It could just be Kori and Irving, but there's no proof of that]].

* SaveTheVillain

* ScarsAreForever

* SecondEpisodeMorning: In chapter one.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The ending.]]

* TemporalParadox: Mostly averted.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ashley and Emily.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Averted in the extremely short NewGamePlus.

* CatsAreMean: Ethan gets a nasty scratch at the beginning of the game.
** To be fair, it's mostly due to Sox [[HatesBaths hating baths]] instead of him being truly malicious.
* ChekhovsGun: Irving with [[spoiler:the scars under his glove]].

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: 17th Birthday, actually, but that's close enough.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Sox. Maybe.]]
* DopplegangerReplacementLoveInterest: Of a sort. [[spoiler: After Kori is saved by uncle Derek, the ending cut scene reveals a [[IdenticalGrandson girl who looks similar,]] and is implied to be his cousin.]]

* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:Ben ''Four''ier, who kills Aaron with a pair of pliers in one reality.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:So is it Ethan's cousin, or a time duplicate, or what?]]

* IdenticalGrandson: The most common interpretation of the final moments in the ending.

* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Kori]]

* {{Joshikousei}}: Kori, Emily and Ashley.

* {{Meganekko}}: Emily.

* MindScrew: With so much time travel, how could it not be?

* MysteriousWaif: Kori

* NewTransferStudent: Kori

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Kori, due to being displaced from time.]]

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Ethan until his 17th birthday.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Being able to see the treehouse catching fire (you only see the planted stick), Ethan running through a Hole, and [[spoiler:Ethan being the one to jump out the window and grab Kori]].
* 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.]]

* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Seventeenth Birthday]]

* EconomyCast

* IdenticalGrandson: The most common interpretation of a certain point in the ending.

* NumericalThemeNaming: Irving Onegin, Jack Twombly, Vin and Ashley Threeth, Ben Fourier, Morris Fivet, I can keep going...

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Kori, due to being displaced from time.]]

* SpoilerOpening: Kori falling from the school.

* [[TakingTheBullet Taking The Knife]]: [[spoiler: Kori to Ethan. Irving tries to subvert it by stabbing him anyway, but is stopped.]]
* TemporalParadox: mostly averted.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Ethan is [[CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''ShadowOfMemories''.

TimeHollow is a point and-click AdventureGame for the Nintendo DS. 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...

* {{Sidequest}}: [[Preventing Vin's accident so he can continue playing basketball is completely optional and unadvertised.]]

* WhiteHairBlakcHeart: [[spoiler:Irving]] have white hair and fulfills the role of main villain.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: [[spoiler:Irving]], although not pretty, does have white hair and fulfills the role of main villain.

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Irving, ''big time''.]]