Line #40 Characters/Tattletail


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2	!!Humans
3	[[folder:The Protagonist]]
4	A young kid who was very impatient about their Christmas gifts. So much so, that they open one early, to find a Tattletail
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6	* AmbiguousGender: Due to being a FeaturelessProtagonist, the child's gender is never specified.
7	* DisappearedDad: Their father is never mentioned throughout the story.
8	* FakeMemories: Given ''loads'' of them from Mama Tattletail in the ''Kaleidoscope'' DLC, but since she was [[ChildHater so hostile to you]] before, you know there's no way these [[RepressedMemories "taped over memories"]] are true.
9	* FeaturelessProtagonist: You never get to see their face. There are photos throughout the house that depict a boy and girl, one of whom is the protagonist, though it's left up to the player to imagine which one it is.
10	* HollywoodGiftwrap: Quite capable of re-wrapping up Christmas presents perfectly, in the dark and under stress.
11	* KidHero: Pretty obvious. WordOfGod is that they're intended to be somewhere from 8 to 10 years old.
12	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Defeat Mama Tattletail, and the demonic entity will purge your memories of Christmas 1998 in ''Kaleidoscope'' where you think ''she's your'' best friend, and Purple Baby Tattletail was a boring educational toy.
13	* PresentPeeking: Opens their present five days early, with unusually lethal results.
14	* SecurityBlanket: Carries baby Tattletail around with them everywhere.
15	* TheVoiceless: They never once speak in the game.
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18	!!Tattletails
19	[[folder:Main Tattletail]]
20	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ecfcda040b32f0c026fb607c322ccdf084c12596.jpg]]
21	[[caption-width-right:350:Me Tattletail! Me love you!]]
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23	The Tattletail that the Protagonist got for Christmas. He is purple, and quite annoying. He also needs to be taken care of quite a bit...
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25	* AdorableAbomination: Unlike his mother, he's a [[spoiler:genuinely nice thing underneath, despite being capable of the same things she is]]. He's quite adorable, annoying as he may be.
26	* ArmlessBiped: Just like the Furbies it's based on. Its egg-shaped body borders on {{Cephalothorax}}.
27	* BigGood: Having to care for him to stay alive aside, [[spoiler:he assembles and leads a ritual used to ultimately defeat Mama Tattletail]].
28	* CharacterTitle: Appropriately, as the main mechanic of the game, he's the titular character.
29	* CreepyGood: [[spoiler:He immediately warns you about how to avoid Mama and puts together a ritual with his siblings to banish her.]]
30	* CuteButCacophonic: Many players find him adorable. He also has a tendency to repeatedly shout if he's hungry, needs grooming, or if it's dark, which often gets on players' nerves, especially if Mama is nearby.
31	* ExtremeOmnivore: The collectable Tattletail eggs are similar to owl pellets in that they contain anything Tattletail can't properly digest. Based on the ones you find, they'll try to eat anything small enough to fit in their mouth.
32	* FriendToAllChildren: Tattletail loves the child, and ''does not'' take kindly to Mama threatening them.
33	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Contrary to most expectations horror games like this have, he isn't malicious at all.]]
34	* MadeOfIndestructium: He's a very durable thing. The second night shows that putting himself through a washing machine's spin cycle was just for fun.
35	* MeaningfulName: Tattletail needs to be appeased to avoid him giving away your position to Mama with his complaints. The other Tattletails live up to their name as well, seeing as they'll tell Mama exactly which room you're currently in.
36	* OffscreenTeleportation: How he finds his way around.
37	* OhCrap: When he realizes Mama is patrolling the house.
38	* PurpleIsPowerful: His fur is purple, and he's an AdorableAbomination capable of OffscreenTeleportation.
39	* ScaryFlashlightFace: It props your flashlight underneath itself when waking you up on Night Five.
40	* UnstableHorrorAlly: He could be considered cute, creepy, or both, depending on how the player feels about Toys/{{Furby}}, [[FauxFurby the inspiration for the game]]. Either way, the main Tattletail has a habit of talking a lot, especially if the player doesn't take care of it. The main Tattletail's noise can lead the monstrous Mama Tattletail right to the player, although the main Tattletail doesn't ''mean'' to cause trouble for the player.
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43	[[folder:Mama Tattletail]]
44	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mama_tattletailpng.jpg]]
45	[[caption-width-right:350:Mama's coming!]]
46	The mother of the Tattletails... and also the most malicious one.
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48	* AbusiveParents: Considering she keeps murdering all her children's friends.
49	* AdorableAbomination: What she looks like at first...
50	* ArmlessBiped: Again, thanks to being a Tattletail.
51	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She was banished by her own children to somewhere. Even they saw how monstrous she was.]]
52	* AxCrazy: You ''don't'' want to meet Mama, since she's hunting for the protagonist to kill them.
53	* BigBad: She's the main threat of the game.
54	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Her first scene [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes]] this. See FauxAffablyEvil below.
55	* ChildHater: Terrorises children on Christmas? Yep.
56	* CuteIsEvil: A bit taller than the normal Tattletails, but shares their cuteness. However, her nature is much worse than her appearance lets on.
57	* EvilMatriarch: How her children view her, which they have every right to.
58	* EyeScream: On the game's [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/568090/ Steam page]], it's stated that Mama Tattletail ''ate a child's eyes right out of their head'', and that's why she was discontinued. It's just a rumor, though.
59	* FauxAffablyEvil: Gives you a not-very-well-veiled threat when you first meet her. All in the guise of a sweet storyteller.
60	* HatedByAll: Even her own children don't like her.
61	* ImpliedDeathThreat: Her EstablishingCharacterMoment has her tell a story that, out of context, is a simple story about sending children to bed. In context, however... well, she's making it clear that you won't escape that easily, and that if she finds you, she will ''murder'' you.
62	-->"The children thought that Mama would never find them as long as she couldn't see them. Turn the page. But Mama could still hear the children. The pitter-patter of their little feet led Mama right to them. Turn the page. Then Mama found the children, every last one, and put them right back to bed."
63	* KillerTeddyBear: It's a child's toy that is capable of murdering children.
64	* MamaBear: She's so overprotective that she tries to kill anyone who simply wants to play with her children. [[MyBelovedSmother They don't seem fond of this behavior.]]
65	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:Traversing the Kaleidoscope in the expansion pack offers a cassette tape, which features a description of the Waydrives, the devices that are implied to give the Tattletails their [[ItCanThink "unique personalities"]]. Just ''how'' it does this is unknown, so it's debatable on whether it's a case of AIIsACrapshoot or HauntedTechnology.]]
66	* MechanicalAbomination: Though Mama Tattletail has the appearance of an oversized Tattletail doll, she's actually a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity inhabiting a mechanical vessel. Her presence is accompanied by {{Ominous Visual Glitch}}es and the whirring, grinding sound of her casetophone, and [[spoiler:the closest thing she has to a true form is the VHS tape that you banish in the end]]. Besides her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation]] abilities, the "Kaleidoscope" expansion reveals that [[spoiler:she can also [[FakeMemories modify memories]]]].
67	* MyBelovedSmother: How her children view her.
68	* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Destroy her VHS, and she'll erase your memories with said VHS in ''Kaleidoscope'', forcing you to have a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to retrieve them. But she won't let you go [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind that easily]].
69	* OffscreenTeleportation: How she mainly moves.
70	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Begs this in ''Kaleidoscope'' when you begin to escape her.
71	* RedEyesTakeWarning: When her eyes are glowing red, you're screwed.
72	* TheStoryteller: She's intended to be a Teddy Ruxpin-esque storytelling toy, with a read-along cassette tape. The story she tells on your first encounter with her is, naturally, a not-very-well-veiled threat.
73	* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:She's the only Tattletail that's actually evil]].
74	* VillainTeleportation: Just like her children!
75	* WouldHurtAChild: Obviously, seeing as she's trying to kill a small defenceless child.
76	* {{Yandere}}: Don't even ''think'' of trying to play with her babies.
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79	[[folder:Boring Tattletail]]
80	Your Christmas gift in the Kaleidoscope update. It seems... off.
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82	* CannotTellAJoke: That's an understatement.
83	* CaptainObvious: All of its facts.
84	* CoolToy: Averted. Whereas baby talking purple Tattletail, for a toy of the late 90s, is technologically [[LivingToys leaps and bounds]] [[LoveImbuesLife ahead of anything]] we currently possess [[note]]almost twenty years later at the time of this trope's writing[[/note]], this toy... is the more [[BoringButPractical realistic and less cooler]] product.
85	* CreepyMonotone: Has zero inflection in its voice.
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