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1	This character sheet includes the major characters in ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''.
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3	'''Warning:''' Spoilers of ''doom'' below.
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8	!!Jennifer, The Unlucky Girl
9	-> '''Voiced by:''' Jo Wyatt
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11	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennifer.png]]
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13	The protagonist, who returns to the orphanage when she's 19.
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15	* AccompliceByInaction: She [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blames herself]] for [[spoiler:Brown's murder]] because it might not have happened had she stood up to her bullies (earlier).
16	* AmnesiacHero: Her primary goal is to remember the promise she made to "her dear friend." [[spoiler: Turns out there's a lot more than that that Jennifer has forgotten.]]
17	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: If you unlock the four-leaf clover door, you get to dress Jennifer up in a variety of outfits, such as a [[NinjaMaid French maid]] or an octopus.
18	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Everyone's so mean to Jennifer, even the adults.
19	* BreakTheCutie: A good majority of the game has people (and monsters) doing this to Jennifer.
20	* TheChainOfHarm: She's at the bottom of one. See, Hoffman vents his frustration by sexually abusing Diana, who vents her resulting fear by socially abusing Meg, who vents ''her'' resulting anger on Jennifer… who is basically the only character who uses constructive coping methods.
21	* ComingOfAgeStory: "I learned many things at this orphanage... The alphabet… words… how to clean and do laundry... But the most important thing I learned… was the lesson I received in exchange for [[spoiler:my dear friend's life]]... I finally came to understand myself. My beliefs and the will to stand up for them… I don't want to lose those ever again."
22	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has pea-green eyes and dirty blonde hair. Both shades are so dull that they look the same at first glance.
23	* {{Determinator}}: Eventually shows herself to be one, despite her young age. ''Nothing'' breaks her spirit - not being kidnapped, not the deaths of multiple loved ones, and not even the physical and emotional abuse her peers constantly subjected her to. (Though it takes some time before even ''she'' realizes that last part.)
24	* DesignatedVictim: What a poor, lonely, unlucky girl.
25	* DueToTheDead: One of the main reasons Jennifer explores her [[TraumaInducedAmnesia repressed memories]] is because if ''she'' doesn't remember [[spoiler:all those who died in the orphanage massacre]], nobody will.
26	-->''I'm sorry, everyone... You don't deserve to be forgotten. But I'll remember you.''
27	* DoomMagnet: [[spoiler:The airship Jennifer was onboard crashed, killing her parents. The guy who consequently found her was delusional. The girl who saved her from him was an obsessed sociopath. The orphanage that took Jennifer in was a den of bullies presided over by a pedophile. The dog she befriends is tortured to death.]] At this point, Jennifer's personality sort of wraps back around into total fearlessness: she's been through the worst life has to offer long enough to know it can't corrupt her.
28	* EnglishRose: Jennifer presents the intriguing concept of a classic English Rose forced into a ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''-style survival horror environment. Jennifer is a timid, fair, soft-spoken young English woman who seems weak and is easily pushed about by others - although this is understandable considering the [[OrphanageOfFear situation]] she was forced into. However, her ability to endure constant bullying and punishment shows her to be very determined and loyal. In this regard, she can be viewed as a {{s\|ilkHidingSteel}}trong character.
29	* EveryoneHasStandards: Jennifer will do anything the club orders her to do… except abandon Brown. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the latter is what Wendy's trying to force her to do.]] The entire game leads up to Jennifer realizing that she ''does'' in fact, have standards that nothing she's goes through will ever break.
30	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The clearest difference between Jennifer's young and elder self is her hairstyle: the former's is short [[spoiler:presumably because Gregory cut it]], the latter's is long and bound up.
31	* ForcedIntoEvil: Jennifer is told in the beginning of the game that the Princess of the Red Rose will kill her if she disobeys orders, right before she sees the princess' minions kill someone else. It only gets worse from there.
32	* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the "Once Upon A Time..." chapter, Jennifer pities the other children and acknowledges that they were experiencing just as much emotional turmoil as her. (She specifically chooses to remember [[spoiler:Wendy's friendship]], stating that it was and is important to her.) She decides to preserve her memories, but refuses to let them sabotage her new life.
33	* GoodIsNotSoft: Jennifer is a kind, loyal person. Her slapping [[spoiler:Wendy when the latter goes too far]] is treated as an extension of these traits and a display of great CharacterDevelopment.
34	* HeroicMime: ''Almost''. She has one line at the beginning, three at the end (one of them is her [[spoiler: ripping the others to shreds]]) and she talks to Brown in single words. Everything else, she's silent or squeaking.
35	* HiddenInPlainSight: Invoked. Jennifer hid her stuff inside the orphanage's many trash cans, where it wouldn't be stolen.
36	* {{Irony}}: Jennifer is such an unlucky girl, [[spoiler:except when she seems to be ''just'' lucky enough to be the sole survivor of both a catastrophic airship crash and a tragic orphanage massacre, emotional damage notwithstanding]].
37	* KleptomaniacHero: Her regurgitated memories show that Jennifer had firsthand knowledge of other people's diaries.
38	* MementoMacGuffin: After [[spoiler:escaping Gregory's house]], she gave a teddy bear to Wendy in exchange for a rose-carved brooch (as seen on Jennifer's lapel). After defying [[spoiler:Wendy and her]] aristocrats, she flings the brooch away.
39	* MercyKill: She helps [[spoiler:Gregory commit suicide]], because they both know that his sanity is only decreasing and he'll murder more children the next time he snaps.
40	* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:The only reason Wendy cared about even ''faking'' humanity was because she knew Jennifer would like her for it.]]
41	* MyGreatestFailure: She describes herself as a "coward" whose passivity led [[spoiler:to the murder of her best friend]].
42	-->''I'll never break a promise again.''
43	* NotSoStoic: Jennifer acts in an emotionally restrained fashion in order to separate herself from her tormentors (most of whom were immature) and deny them some of the satisfaction of hurting her. The utter ''fury'' she reacts with with [[spoiler:when Brown is murdered]] proves that this is a facade, and indeed, the ''whole game'' is about Jennifer achieving catharsis.
44	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jennifer is extremely conflict-avoidant, in part because she deeply fears her fellow orphans. [[spoiler:Except when those children murder Brown.]] Then, it [[CombatPragmatist is]] ''[[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown on]]''.
45	* PrimAndProperBun: Jennifer sports one. [[FauxSymbolism It may be symbolic of her effort to repress her childhood memories.]]
46	* TheQuietOne: Jennifer doesn't have much to say to the kids that are constantly bullying her. [[spoiler:At first.]]
47	* ReluctantWarrior: In some of Jennifer's attacking animations, she actually ''covers her eyes'' with one hand while striking with the other. All battles in the game are initiated by someone else - frequently by them ambushing Jennifer and locking the door so she can't escape. (Though some battles can be avoided, eventually Jennifer will have to kill someone in self-defense. [[ButThouMust It's inevitable.]]) The good ending - which is also the only canonical one - is achieved by staying true to this trope and ''not'' killing a particular enemy.
48	* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:For Gregory's dead son, Joshua. Gregory even seemed to have deluded himself into believing that she actually ''was'' Joshua.]]
49	* SanityHasAdvantages: Jennifer faces the FinalBoss alone, because even though he's threatening ''everyone'', she's the only orphan left who has [[WorldHalfFull something to fight for]].
50	* TheScapegoat: Averted, chronologically. Because she's the lowest-ranking club member, everyone in it vents their negative emotions on her. (In particular, Jennifer is framed by Diana several times for her crimes.) However, there is a reason Jennifer occupies that rank, a reason that isn't revealed until pretty far into the game. For the first few chapters, it appears that she's a straight example - everyone bullies her [[ForTheEvulz just because]]. [[spoiler:Their actual motivation for doing so is almost as petty, though.]]
51	* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: There wasn't much good in her life, but she remembers what good there was so clearly that even its loss ([[spoiler:or murder]]) does not break her. This is borne out in gameplay: the imps are masked, the orphanage is a shadowy maze, but everything important to Jennifer - even things so small as a sunlit window - are clear and mentioned in her narration.
52	* SilkHidingSteel:
53	* TheStoic: Compared to the other children of the orphanage, Jennifer is a reserved, shy girl who doesn't let her emotions show. This makes her most similar personality-wise to Eleanor, though while Eleanor is passive in her detachment, Jennifer deliberately pushes others away.
54	* SugarAndIcePersonality: In public, child!Jennifer acted very detached and "adult" as a way of feeling superior to her peers. (Her actual coping mechanisms, such as playing with Brown, are more appropriate to her age.) Some years later, she realizes that this was silly of her - and that her image of adults was incorrect anyway.
55	-->''But what does it mean to be an adult? Will I ever become one?''
56	* SweetTooth: Jennifer [[HealThyself heals herself]] by munching on sweets.
57	* SympathyForTheDevil: She understands that Gregory only acted the way he did because he was deranged by grief. She also ''really didn't like'' being kidnapped and caged in a total stranger's house.
58	* {{Tomboy}}: Averted. Jennifer's child self looks rather boyish - and describes herself as a "prince" to Wendy's "princess" - but not because she wants to: because [[spoiler:Gregory forced her to resemble his dead son as much as possible, and refused to acknowledge her actual gender or identity]]. After escaping Gregory, she expresses joy at being able to be who she really is.
59	* TheTragicRose: The scene where Jennifer realizes how viciously [[spoiler:Wendy]] has betrayed her is marked with a rose bouquet being spilled on the floor and a rose brooch being cast aside. It's clear in the scene that both "roses" - girls - [[{{Yandere}} have]] [[{{Determinator}} thorns]].
60	* TraumaInducedAmnesia: She considers this trope the reason that so much weird shit is going on in her memories. The disturbing actions of her fellow orphans, for example, are "censored" by them instead appearing as faceless imps. When Jennifer finally remembers exactly who [[spoiler:killed Brown]], she does ''not'' take it well. However, she ultimately states that recovering her memories was worth the emotional pain of doing so.
61	* UnreliableExpositor: In many ways, although - as a ''character'' - Jennifer is trustworthy.
62	** For most of the game ([[spoiler:i.e, Jennifer's journey through her memories), she portrays Wendy as a compassionate, victimized non-entity, because Jennifer desperately wants to believe that. In this case, the exposition erases the beginning of Wendy's character arc (in which she was a very important person in Jennifer's life]]), and its end, in which Wendy was still important to her (though for '''much''' darker reasons). When young, Jennifer instinctively shied away from these truths because she couldn't reconcile them.
63	** She portrays the orphanage as having always been a place of fear and sorrow, because, in Jennifer's heart, those emotions are so strong that they drown out the truth of the situation. In actuality, several months passed in Jennifer's life before the orphanage became as uniformly horrific as ([[GoldenEnding most of]]) the game depicts it.
64	* VisionQuest: Basically the whole game's plot. A now older-and-wiser Jennifer works through her amnesia and emotional repression so she can let go of her sadness and remember ''everything'' about her childhood - both its good and bad parts. As well as rediscovering why [[spoiler:everyone she remembers from that time is dead]].
65	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is unknown what happened to Jennifer after [[spoiler:the massacre at the orphanage]]. Though it is safe to assume that she at least [[spoiler:lived to the age of 19, as we see her in-game]].
66	* WhenSheSmiles: Wendy considers Jennifer's smile very beautiful, [[spoiler:not that she feels any guilt for making her sad]]. The game's BittersweetEnding ends with a closeup of it.
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68	!!Brown, The Filthy Dog
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70	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brown.jpg]]
71	Jennifer's pet dog.
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74	* AlwaysWithYou: After [[spoiler:Brown's murder]], Jennifer invokes this trope, imagining that he is still beside her. The finale plays it straight: [[spoiler:Jennifer accepts his death and moves on, but vows to keep her memory of him safe in her heart forever]].
75	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Depending on the ending you get or by interacting with certain items, Brown can be dressed in a costume similar to Jennifer's. He can even turn into a crab or a ''chair''.
76	* CanineCompanion: He is always at Jennifer's side, unless physically forced away. Both psychologically and gameplay-wise, Jennifer treats him like an extension of her own body - [[spoiler:a fact which confuses Wendy and arouses her rage]].
77	* ContrivedCoincidence: It's never explained why a stray [[spoiler:puppy]] would be wandering around the English countryside, especially in a place as remote as the orphanage.
78	* ColdBloodedTorture: In Brown's first appearance, Jennifer finds him hanging upside down from the rafters his paws are tied to. She cuts the rope and saves him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Brown is not so lucky the next time.]]
79	* DogWalksYou: The majority of the game is spent following Brown to one place or another.
80	* GuideDangIt: Brown can trace any item, anywhere, anytime... unless the target item is on a different level, you haven't triggered the right cutscene, or [[LogicBomb you're too many rooms away from the item you're looking for]].
81	* IronicName: Despite his name being Brown, his fur is more of a yellow color.
82	* KickTheDog: Everyone except Jennifer hates Brown. [[spoiler:Ends up happening quite literally when he's killed.]]
83	* MoralityPet: It's implied that his selfless, unconditional love was the main thing keeping Jennifer sane while she was in the orphanage. The other children - who either lost their pets or never had one in the first place - have fully succumbed to [[spoiler:Wendy]]'s toxic [[StrawNihilist philosophy]], losing all hope and compassion.
84	* PreciousPuppy: [[spoiler:As we see in the good ending, he was heart-meltingly adorable as a puppy.]]
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88	[[folder: Aristocrat Club Members]]
89	!!Joshua, The Bear Prince
90	-> '''Voiced by:''' Teresa Gallagher
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92	* CreepyCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Is actually Wendy masquerading as Gregory's dead son.]]
93	* EvilLaugh: Laughs like this.
94	* TheEvilPrince: Taunts Jennifer during her ControllableHelplessness sequence, and threatens to kill her if she doesn't obey him.
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96	!!Diana, The Strong-Willed Princess
97	-> '''Voiced by:''' Joanna Hall
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99	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dianaror.png]]
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101	One of the oldest orphans and higher-ranking girls in the Aristocrat Club.
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103	* AlphaBitch: Diana looks down on the other members of the club, particularly Jennifer, and often uses peer pressure to torment them.
104	* AnimalMotif: Fish.
105	* TheAtoner: There's two ways to interpret her words to Jennifer in ''Stray Dog and The Lying Princess.'' Either she's desperate for leadership and desires to keep her position, [[ManipulativeBitch so she apologizes to do so...]] or she's this, being genuinely sorry for her actions and would have made an actual attempt to make it all up to Jennifer had she [[spoiler:not been killed alongside the rest of the orphans during the massacre]].
106	* BigBrotherBully: Much of her interactions with the others come off as her falsely and cruelly mimicking the energy of a kind big sister and warping it into something manipulative and vindictive. Best shown during the first rat stick scene where she mockingly rubs a frightened Amanda's head and says "There, there, there."
107	* BlueBlood: Invoked -- Diana uses the title "Duchess", the most senior non-royal rank in the British peerage.
108	* TheCorrupter: Diana forces Amanda and Jennifer to hurt each other, and when Jennifer balks, she kicks her forward.
109	* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Mermaid Princess" chapter.
110	* TheDragon: She's strongly implied to be this to [[spoiler:Wendy]] due to how gleefully she contributes to Jennifer's suffering at [[spoiler:Wendy's command]] and leads the rest of the girls to do the same.
111	* EvilIsPetty: She can be very rude and standoffish to Jennifer, and is childishly cruel towards her friends behind their backs.
112	* EvilRedhead: Second to [[spoiler:Wendy]], she's the most antagonistic of the Aristocrats.
113	* FalseFriend: She conspires with Meg to steal and kill Eleanor's bird, and the two talk about her cruelly in the girls' bathroom. She also hangs around with Eleanor and complains to her about how clingy Meg is, claiming that she doesn't like her at all, even going so far as to tear up her love letter.
114	* FreudianExcuse: Diana was [[spoiler:sexually abused by Hoffman]]. This would make her a more sympathetic character, if she didn't take her resulting anger out on ''everyone else''.
115	* GrowingUpSucks: A complex example. The prettiest and most mature of the Aristocrats, she couldn't wait to become an adult. At the same time, though, she was afraid of what doing so would entail. She also fixated on the fantasy of being a mermaid, pure and beautiful, but as she grew older, she realized that she was straying more and more from her ideal self. [[spoiler:Factor into this the strong possibility that she saw in Clara her own potential future – the eldest orphan, sexually mature, sexually ''abused'', broken, caged – and, as the second eldest, was terrified of crossing that threshold and opening herself up to that awful existence.]]
116	* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:Aside from Wendy, the HiddenVillain BigBad,]] Diana is the character whose actions drive much of the conflict.
117	* KickTheDog: She steals and kills Eleanor's bird just to get a reaction out of the girl, and also tries to get rid of Meg's love letter to her after tearing it in half.
118	* KiddieKid: Seemingly invoked as a defense mechanism during one particularly disturbing scene [[spoiler:where Hoffman is pawing and groping at her. She seems to be trying to invoke the image of a much younger child by sobbing loudly about being scolded in an attempt to get him to lose interest in her. It seems to work, and as soon as he leaves the room she immediately returns to her true personality and furiously wipes at her clothes in disgust before taking her anger out on Jennifer.]]
119	* TheLeader: Seems to play this role for the club when [[spoiler:Wendy]] isn't around.
120	* ManipulativeBitch: Evident in her treatment of her "friends."
121	* MeaningfulName: Diana is a Roman goddess known for hunting and childbirth, reflecting Diana's own superior attitude, time spent hunting for victims, and [[spoiler:her being sexually abused by Hoffman]].
122	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Looks a lot like a young Kirsten Dunst.
123	* NoodleIncident: How she came to need the bandage around one of her thighs. Given what we know about her and Hoffman, [[FridgeHorror that's something we might not want to dwell on]].
124	* NumberTwo: For [[spoiler:Wendy]], although it's not immediately clear on the first playthrough, as you'll likely believe her to be the true leader of the club.
125	* PetTheDog: Some of Jennifer's narration in the epilogue chapter indicates that when she wasn't around the other orphans, she could be kind, suggesting that her behavior is brought upon partially by peer pressure. We never see any of this in game, however.
126	* RedHerring: For much of the game, she seems to be the true ringleader of the Aristocrats, with the Princess of the Red Rose being represented in cutscenes as a doll that the club seems to worship in a cult-like fashion. However, Chapter 9 reveals that not only is the princess an actual person, but that she's [[spoiler:Wendy]] and Diana is just her NumberTwo. This is possibly foreshadowed by Diana's connection to fish symbolism and her red hair.
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128	!!Meg, The Wise-Looking Princess
129	-> '''Voiced by:''' Barbara Barnes
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131	[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meg_again.jpg]]
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133	Diana's lackey and second-in-command.
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135	* AnimalMotif: Goats.
136	* BetaBitch: She is Diana's NumberTwo and only slightly less bitchy than her.
137	* BlueBlood: Invoked -- she uses the title "Baroness."
138	* CoolBigSis: Appears to be this for Susan. She's the one who teaches the younger girl how to read.
139	* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Goat Sisters" chapter.
140	* DisproportionateRetribution: Meg thinks Jennifer destroyed a love letter she wrote… so she traps Jennifer in a sack and fills it with various insects. It's a wonder Jennifer didn't die of spider bites.
141	* EvilGenius: If her notebook is to be believed, she was working on a torture chair, and came up with the Onion Bag punishment.
142	* MoralMyopia: She doesn't believe she has any personal flaws, and her reaction to Jennifer reading her love letter is, "How could she do that to me?! What did I ever do to her?!" After, you know, demeaning and forcing her into servitude like everyone else.
143	* UndyingLoyalty: Completely devoted to Diana.
144	* VillainousBreakdown: Loses it when she thinks Jennifer read and destroyed her love letter.
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146	!!Eleanor, The Cold Princess
147	-> '''Voiced by:''' Joanna Hall
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149	[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eleanorror.png]]
150	A quiet and withdrawn girl who's third-in-command.
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152	* TwentiesBobHaircut: Justified, given the time period in which the game is set, she dons this sort of haircut.
153	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She doesn't socialize and tends to keep to herself. This adds to her overall eeriness.
154	* AnimalMotif: Birds.
155	* CopeByPretending: What is notable about how she reacts to [[spoiler:Diana and Meg killing her priced pet bird]] is actually her utter ''lack'' of an overt reaction. [[spoiler:She just continues to carry the empty cage around with her, as if the bird was still alive.]]
156	* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Bird of Happiness" chapter.
157	* BlueBlood: Invoked -- she uses the title "Countess."
158	* EmotionlessGirl: She has very few voice lines and expresses little emotion, even when [[spoiler:she finds her beloved pet bird killed and wrapped in her own dress]].
159	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: [[spoiler:Despite her status as one of the Aristocrats, both Diana and Meg [[HiddenDisdainReveal are revealed to hold her in some degree of contempt]], finding her to be a weirdo because of her quiet and stoic demeanor. This culminates in her eventually becoming a target of their bullying too, as they conspired to kill her pet bird.]]
160	* {{Foil}}: To Jennifer. Both are emotionally and socially withdrawn children, though with opposite positions - Eleanor is a member of the aristocracy that torments Jennifer, while Jennifer is a minion of said aristocracy. How they react to their [[spoiler:respective pets' deaths also sets them apart but further unifies them: Eleanor reacts to her bird's death by bottling up her emotions and carrying around the animal's cage as if it hadn't died, whereas Brown's death proves to be Jennifer's breaking point]].
161	* IceQueen: Her being cold and emotionally distant is her defining trait. She is even referred to as the "Cold Princess."
162	* MoralityPet: Implied. Cardinal birds are symbolic of emotion and vibrancy - the very traits Eleanor lacks.
163	* ParentalNeglect: Eleanor is implied to have not been an orphan in the traditional sense, in that her parents hadn't died or lacked the resources to care for her. Rather, as a newspaper clipping hints, she was "orphaned" by a quite odd {{inver\|tedTrope}}sion of DivorceAssetsConflict: ''[[ParentalAbandonment neither party]]'' [[DoorstopBaby wanted her]] once the marriage was kaput.
164	* TheStoic: She doesn't even react when [[spoiler:she comes across her prized, dead bird]].
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166	!!Amanda, The Small-Hearted Princess
167	-> '''Voiced by:''' Clare Corbett
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169	[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amandaror.png]]
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171	A heavier set girl who's designated as lower class but is a rank above Jennifer.
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173	* AnimalMotif: Pigs. She's chubby and wears pink.
174	* ADayInTheLimelight: The "Rag Princess Sews" chapter.
175	* FatBastard: Easily the plumpest of the girls, and shows herself to be a cruel, whiny brat.
176	* FairWeatherFriend: She basically tries to please everyone, and ends up on the club's side because they'll accept this in a minion/friend but Jennifer won't.
177	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She goes from seeming uncomfortable about shoving a rat in Jennifer's face to ''reveling'' in her newfound power. Then not long after, her guilt overcomes her and she tearfully apologizes to Jennifer, encouraging her to take revenge on her if given the chance, desperately hoping they can be friends. [[spoiler:And then it's back to hate when Jennifer upstages her in rank.]]
178	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Implied to be her motivation for doing what the Aristocrat Club demands.
179	* IronicName: ''Amanda'' is Latin for "worthy of love", which her peers definitely don't see her as.
180	* LowerClassLout: Unlike her fellow club members, she bears no aristocratic title and is the designated representative of "the poor."
181	* MadnessMantra: Goes on for three pages in her diary.
182	-->I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER\
183	I HATE HER I HATE HER I HATE HER\
184	Oh my! I've got to sew the rags...
185	* PlainJane: Unlike the rest of the girls, who vary from being cute to attractive, she is designed so as to be conventionally rather plain.
186	* RegalRinglets: Surprisingly, given her station, Amanda sports a complicated ringlet hairstyle that would take time and skill to achieve.
187	* SanitySlippage: While she wasn't the most stable person to begin with, she ''really'' starts to lose it after [[spoiler:being outranked by Jennifer]].
188	* TragicVillain: Her trying so hard to advance in rank is all for nothing; she succeeds, but she's no less bullied because of it.
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190	!!Wendy, The Lonely Princess / Sick Princess
191	-> '''Voiced by:''' Teresa Gallagher
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193	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wendysmile.png]]
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195	A girl in white who's the highest-ranked of all Aristocrats.
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197	* AnimalMotifs: Subverted. Her "pet" is a group of rabbits, but, unlike the other children, [[spoiler:her true self]] bears no particular similarities to it.
198	* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Jennifer's OnlyFriend in the orphanage is also the author of her woes.]]
199	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Do NOT be fooled by her sweet disposition.
200	* BlueBlood: She uses the title "Princess", and as such she is the highest-ranking character in the club.
201	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Rules over the Aristocrat Club from the shadows and has them obey her every command. After her position is usurped, she still finds a way to take control...]]
202	* ControlFreak: She can't regulate her own feelings, so she tries to compensate by regulating the cause of them - Jennifer. It doesn't work: [[spoiler:no matter what Wendy does to her, Jennifer will not abandon Brown. Even after his death.]]
203	* TheCorrupter: To many characters, at different points in the story:
204	** [[spoiler:Most of the orphans, out of fear and desperation, let Wendy take charge and declared her their ruler. ''Big'' mistake. They may have built the club's sadistic society, but it is she who planned it.]]
205	** [[spoiler:After (and possibly before) the club collapsed, she disguised herself as Joshua and convinced Gregory to murder her former minions.]]
206	* DelicateAndSickly: She's outright called the "Sick Princess" and is often confined to her bedroom due to an unspecified illness. This lonely existence is possibly why she latches so hard onto [[spoiler:Jennifer]] for being the first girl to give her any attention, [[spoiler:and why she takes it so poorly when Jennifer starts being affectionate to Brown.]]
207	* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler:Jennifer makes another friend. Wendy considers this a horribly cruel act of betrayal that Jennifer must be punished for.]]
208	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:She assumes that Jennifer must only "love" Brown for self-serving reasons; therefore, she thinks that killing Brown will make Jennifer stop loving him (as he can no longer provide anything - emotional or otherwise - to her). The idea of a selfless love that transcends death is alien to Wendy... so she didn't expect that Jennifer would still care enough about Brown to avenge him, or retain the confidence his love gave her.]]
209	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Even as she's [[spoiler:standing over the murdered Brown]], she is smiling angelically and offering Jennifer a bouquet of roses. [[spoiler:Whether this is an expression of her true feelings or an act she puts on to impress Jennifer is ambiguous.]]
210	* FloralMotifs: Roses, specifically red ones, which are associated with love. However, roses have painful thorns, and [[spoiler:she used her love to hurt people]].
211	* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:She is the sadistic tyrant to Jennifer's victimized loner. Fittingly, while Wendy ''sees'' everything going on in the orphanage and ''understands'' none of it (because she doesn't understand the emotions which drive its inhabitants' actions), Jennifer is the opposite. She understands fully why the orphans acted the way they did, but doesn't see them doing these actions (because she's censoring her own memories).]]
212	* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:She despised Brown immediately, just because Jennifer held affection for him.]]
213	* ImageSong: The game's theme, "A Love Suicide", is [[{{Fanon}} commonly]] believed to be sung from her perspective.
214	* InnocentBlueEyes / HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her physical appearance is deliberately designed to encourage players to trust her. [[spoiler:Both tropes are subverted.]]
215	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Wendy is slaughtered by the same man she took advantage of. Then, even in death, she cannot move on from the orphanage.]]
216	* LipstickLesbian: A PsychoLesbian who looks conventionally feminine.
217	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:After being rejected by Jennifer, Wendy loses whatever happiness (and self-restraint) she had. Everything she does from then on is motivated by her selfish desire to be, once again, the only person Jennifer loves.]]
218	* {{Manipulative B\|astard}}itch: [[spoiler:As the leader of the Aristocrat Club, she scares the other members into submission with stories of Stray Dog, orders them to taunt and harm Jennifer, and makes them ''kill a puppy'' just so she can have Jennifer to herself. After Jennifer defies her, Wendy dresses as Joshua, finds Gregory, and manipulates him into murdering everyone at the orphanage.]]
219	* NeverMyFault: In Wendy's view, [[spoiler:her murder of Brown]] is a perfectly rational and reasonable consequence of Jennifer's "sin." Only [[spoiler:''at the moment of her death'']] does she apologize for any of the shit she's caused.
220	* PassiveAggressiveKombat: She expresses her distaste for Brown by complimenting and insulting him in the same sentence.
221	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:After Jennifer leaves the orphanage behind in the good ending, Wendy looks pleadingly through the gate at her.]]
222	* PragmaticVillain: She readily feigns niceness when doing so would accomplish a goal, but ultimately, it's just another "tool" of hers, discarded the instant it stops being effective.
223	* PsychoLesbian: She and [[spoiler:Jennifer]] vowed to love each other forever. Unfortunately, they were using... ''different'' definitions of the word 'love'.
224	* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:She's a selfish, manipulating murderer, with a plan that hinges on Jennifer acting in a specific way that implies she does not understand basic human emotions.]]
225	-->'''Jennifer:''' ''(in a letter to Wendy)'' I know you don't understand, but I can't just abandon Brown.
226	* TheSocialDarwinist: [[spoiler:Of the 'Straw Meritocrat' type, which disdains compassion and empathy. She constantly degrades Jennifer for being a "filthy" commoner, insults that are all the hollower because Wendy is the one who decided Jennifer's rank.]]
227	* SomethingAboutARose: Whenever Wendy appears in a cutscene, red roses are never far behind.
228	* StalkerWithACrush: There are several scenes where Jennifer wakes up to find Wendy [[spoiler:(dressed as Joshua)]] staring at her. And touching her. As is typical of the trope, [[spoiler:Wendy tries to isolate Jennifer socially and control her by lowering her self-esteem]].
229	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Played with; Wendy understands ''romantic'' love, but not other kinds of love or why anyone would value them. After receiving the letter in which Jennifer first mentions her friendship with Brown, it takes Wendy '''ten days''' to formulate a response.
230	* WoundedGazelleGambit: In one chapter, Wendy says that the Aristocrats blame her for stealing Joshua the bear. Given [[spoiler:Wendy's true identity, this claim is dubious at best]].
231	* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:She became cruel to Jennifer after Jennifer stopped paying attention to her in favor of Brown, eventually overseeing Brown's murder to have Jennifer all to herself.]]
232
233	!Other Aristocrats
234	Lesser known and seen Aristocrats that aid more so in the main Aristocrats roles or side quests.
235	[[hardline]]
236	!!Susan, The Impetuous Princess
237	-> '''Voiced by:''' Emma Tate
238	One of the younger girls.
239	----
240	* GirlishPigtails: Dons two braids.
241	* TheKlutz: Not coordinated enough to avoid stumbling when she curtsies.
242	* ThoseTwoGuys: She's often seen with Olivia.
243
244	!!Olivia, The Tearful Princess
245	-> '''Voiced by:''' Emma Tate
246	The youngest girl, who's always crying.
247	-----
248	* TheBabyOfTheBunch: If her overall appearance is an indication, she's the youngest of the whole cast.
249	* CreepyChild: Arguably, all of the Aristocrats qualify to some degree or another, but Olivia takes the cake as her age makes her more the case.
250	* DesperatelyCravesAffection: It's implied that she only cries as much as she does because she wants someone to pay attention to her.
251	* MeaningfulName: To Olivia from ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', another character whose emotions get the best of her.
252	* ThoseTwoGuys: She's often seen with Susan.
253	* TheUnfavorite: Implied to be this to Hoffman, as he'd call her name last.
254	* VagueAge: Her age is vaguer than the others in that she's, from her appearance, a toddler.
255
256	!!Xavier, The Gluttonous Prince
257	-> '''Voiced by:''' James Daniel Wilson
258	A chubby boy in striped shirt who's always eating.
259	-----
260	* ArchEnemy: He considers a ''pig'' this, hoping to beat it in eating.
261	* TheBully: Not to such a heavy degree as the other Aristocrats, but he's mostly an emotional version of this to Jennifer. Otherwise, he's an AccompliceByInaction.
262	* FatBastard: He's less jerky to Jennifer, but still portly and unpleasant.
263	* ExtremeOmnivore: Downplayed, as he eats the usual things being a {{big eater}}, but he even wonders if paper tastes good at one point.
264
265	!!Nicholas, The Sloppy Prince
266	-> '''Voiced by:''' Susan Sheridan
267	Xavier's best friend and sometimes accomplice.
268	-------
269	* FatAndSkinny: He plays the "skinny" role to Xavier's fat.
270	* ThePigPen: He's covered in either dirt or soot, along with looking slightly more unkempt than Xavier (but a lot less unkempt than Thomas). He's not called the "Sloppy Prince" for nothing.
271	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Xavier and, wherever the former is, he's not far behind.
272
273	!!Thomas, The Mischievous Prince
274	A withdrawn boy who prefers to spend time with his trains and likes to play pranks.
275	-----
276	* FreudianExcuse: His fondness for trains (and possibly his trickster nature) is because he has no other companionship.
277	* ThePrankster: His biggest role in the plot is [[DeadlyPrank locking Jennifer in rooms with imps for kicks]].
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder: Minor Characters]]
281	!!Gregory, The Mysterious Man
282	An odd figure who lurks round the orphanage.
283	------
284	* AmbiguousSituation: The stories of [[spoiler:Stray Dog]] are very heavily implied to be about him, [[spoiler:made up by Wendy to control the other orphans]]. However, whether [[spoiler:the gobbling up of children in said stories]] is true is ambiguous at best.
285	** Going even further, some theories indicate that the stories aren't about him, but about ''Brown'', in an effort by [[spoiler:Wendy]] to justify her [[spoiler:desire to kill the dog to the other orphans]].
286	* AnimalMotif: [[spoiler:Dogs, as we eventually find out that he was Stray Dog.]]
287	* BossAlteringConsequence: [[spoiler:If you give him the gun, he will shoot himself and you will get the true ending, but if you instead fight him, you will get the bad ending.]]
288	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: At the end of the game, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Wendy had manipulated him so much that he believed himself to literally be a dog and murdered everyone in the orphanage]].
289	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The player has to give him his gun in order to get the good ending. After apologizing to his dead son, he shoots himself in the head.]]
290	* DrowningMySorrows: He drank very heavily [[spoiler:as a result of his son's death]].
291	* ImAHumanitarian: Possibly, if the stories of [[spoiler:Stray Dog]] are to be believed. [[spoiler:Some theorize he kidnapped children and ground them up to be used as food. He (as well as the children at the orphanage) even refers to his victims as "peas."]]
292	* MoralityPet: Though he [[spoiler:murders most of the orphans, he spares Jennifer]].
293	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has a moment of clarity after [[spoiler:Jennifer gives him his gun]].
294	* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:We know his son Joshua died, but we don't know what exactly happened.]]
295	* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:The death of his son Joshua really pushed him over the edge.]]
296	* WalkingSpoiler
297	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:A loving father turned murderous psychopath after the death of his son.]]
298
299	!!Mr. Hoffman, The Strict Teacher
300	-> '''Voiced by:''' Ian Thompson
301	The proprietor and teacher of the Rose Garden Orphanage.
302	----
303
304	* AssholeVictim: One interpretation of both his death and the "Sir Peter" chapter was that the orphans hunted him down for his [[spoiler:abuse of Clara and Diana]] and killed him in revenge.
305	* BrokenPedestal: Jennifer, who seems to want to remember primarily Hoffman's good qualities, begins to piece together (alongside the player) his inner demons.
306	* CreepySouvenir: The hanged man symbolism surrounding Hoffman indicates he was either DrivenToSuicide or that the orphans hung up his body after his murder as some sort of trophy for an unknown period of time.
307	* DirtyOldMan: Has [[spoiler:sexually abused]] at least two of the orphans.
308	* DrivenToSuicide: In-game imagery implies that Hoffman hanged himself when the MyGodWhatHaveIDone realization hit him for [[spoiler: taking out his sexual frustration on the orphans.]]
309	* FightingFromTheInside: The "Sir Peter" storybook hints that he at least initially tried to resist molesting [[spoiler:Diana and Clara]], "hold[ing] in" his sexual releases until "he [[IllBeInMyBunk found a toilet]]."
310	* LaserGuidedKarma: If you go with the AssholeVictim interpretation of his death than he was [[spoiler:hunted down and killed by the children in revenge for his abuse of two of their number.]]
311	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: If you go with the DrivenToSuicide interpretation.
312
313	!!Martha, The Queen of Cleaning
314	-> '''Voiced by:''' Emma Tate
315	The orphanage's housekeeper.
316	-----
317	* AdultsAreUseless: Averted; she tried to be useful but was ignored.
318	* AmbiguousSituation: Why exactly she was killed is ambiguous at best. The two most popular theories are that either [[spoiler:Wendy found out she tried to report Gregory to the police]] or she [[spoiler:discovered Hoffman's dead body. Thus, her death was an effort to cover up his (possible) murder]].
319	* CassandraTruth: She was at least somewhat aware of the goings-on surrounding the orphanage. However, it's revealed in the GoldenEnding that all such concerns were ignored by authorities.
320	* CreepyHousekeeper: She is eerie, calls Jennifer a wretch, and is suspected to be a witch by the children.
321	* FailureHero: One could make the case that she's this. She, at the very least, knew about [[spoiler:Wendy and Gregory's interactions]] and reported it to the police, only to be ignored. There's also implication in the GoldenEnding that she at least suspected ''something'' was going on between Hoffman and Clara and made an effort to reach out to the girl. However, Martha would ultimately be murdered by the very children she sought to protect for ambiguous reasons.
322	* GoodAllAlong: Despite being portrayed as a cold and unfriendly woman, she actually did care about the children's well-being.
323	* KilledMidSentence: The way her letter to the police regarding [[spoiler:the interactions between Wendy and Gregory]] cuts off implies this on a literary scale rather than a verbal one.
324	* OnlySaneWoman: [[spoiler:The only one of the staff concerned about the children, she sent letters to the police regarding Gregory's strange behavior and Wendy's manipulations.]] [[PoliceAreUseless She was completely ignored.]]
325
326	!!Clara, The Frightened Princess
327	-> '''Voiced by:''' Unknown
328	The oldest orphan, a timid girl who keeps to herself.
329	-----
330	* BerserkButton: The ''only'' time in the entire game where she raises her voice is in a very easily missed optional scene where she'll prevent Jennifer from opening a medicine cabinet. The implication is that there's [[spoiler:some form of birth control, such as condoms or pills, or even an aborted fetus within]].
331	** Jennifer's narration indicates that Hoffman and Martha were this. The former is perfectly understandable, but why Martha got under her skin so much is left unclear.
332	* BrokenBird: The game ''heavily'' implies that she was [[spoiler:sexually abused by Hoffman]], which, if true, is likely the reason she is so timid.
333	* DrivenToSuicide: The possibility, at least, is heavily implied.
334	* ShrinkingViolet: Unless you get the above-mentioned optional scene where she snaps at Jennifer, she only ever speaks two words to her.
335	* TeamMom: There's hints that she may have acted as a motherly figure to the other orphans, being about 15 or 16 while the others are 14 and younger.
336	[[/folder]]

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