Characters / Haunting Ground

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Protagonists

Fiona Belli

Voiced by: Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy

The 18-year-old protagonist. Fiona was on her way home from college with her parents when their car was forced off the road. She later regains consciousness and finds herself alone in a cage in the depths of an ancient castle, with only a bed sheet to cover herself. Though she has no recollection of how she wound up there, she quickly realizes her life is in danger and steps into the unknown in order to escape.

Hewie becomes her constant companion and her only line of defense against the dangers presented by the castle and its inhabitants...

Fiona is a bearer of Azoth, the mystical essence of life. Everyone except Debilitas wants it for their own reasons, and they're more than willing to kill her for it. The mark on her back isn't a graphical quirk, but a symbol that shows that she has Azoth within her.

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• Actual Pacifist: Fiona gives every indication that violence upsets her, and shows regret at having to fight for her life and being forced to kill her pursuers when they finally corner her.
  "Why must I kill just to keep myself alive? I hate this place. I really do."
• Action Survivor: Despite her lack of experience in combat, she survives her ordeal at the castle through her wits, determination, and a dog she befriends.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: She gets a six-shooter with her cowgirl costume, which changes her basic attack from a kick to firing shots. While this allows her to attack from a somewhat safer distance (it's only mid-ranged), the player has to take care not to accidentally shoot Hewie when trying to pet him.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Always maintains that pristine look, never getting sweaty or disheveled despite constantly running for her life.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While she seems helpless, timid, and prone to running away from danger, the player can still choose to fight off her assailants with attack items, melee attacks and command her companion Hewie to jump on them and gnaw their jugular off. And while she is also a good-natured girl who detests violence of any kind, her final line to Lorenzo shows that she's willing to make an exception:
  "This time... you really are dead. You bastard."
• Big "NO!": Fiona lets out quite a few of these throughout the game, starting with when she wakes up from a nightmare. The "no" is even repeated three times for emphasis.
  • Used during several of her most gruesome death scenes.
  • Her reaction during Ending D upon realizing she's been captured and soon to be impregnated by her uncle.
  • Also how she reacts to Lorenzo revealing his true colors.
• Blessed with Suck: Her body is full of Azoth, which is said to have many valuable uses, including eternal youth and immortality. Unfortunately, because it's such a precious substance, her captors also want to get their hands on it by killing her.
• Break the Cutie: She's kidnapped after her parents are killed in a fatal car crash and awakens to find herself locked in the basement of an old castle, where everyone and everything is either trying to kill her, or rape her, for her Azoth. Which she's never heard of and hasn't the faintest idea about. She then spends the entirety of the game running for her life, hiding in dark corners and trying to protect her life and her virginity. Thank God she's at least got Hewie to protect her.
• Damsel in Distress: Haunting Ground uses this as a gameplay mechanic, by making it so Fiona has to rely on Hewie as her primary means of defense. This is especially the case when she's in full panic mode and unable to move. When she's being pursued, her only recourse is usually to run and hide until the danger's passed.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not in any cutscenes, but some of her thoughts and comments throughout the game definitely have a snarky element to them.
• Everyone Has Standards: Although Fiona is outright terrified of the bloodthirsty stalkers and does everything she can to evade them, even going as far as to persuade Hewie to attack them on sight, Fiona doesn't want to kill them and even feels immensely guilty should Debilitas die in his boss fight. The only person she makes an exception for is Lorenzo, who she calls a "bastard" after he finally burns to death.
• Fainting: Upon first discovering that both her parents have died in the car crash and that she's now the sole surviving heir to Belli Castle, she faints and stays unconscious long enough to let Riccardo move her into her bed. She relives the car crash in the form of a nightmare as she gradually comes out of unconsciousness right before waking up.
  • When she learns that Riccardo and her father Ugo are clones (and that Riccardo killed her father), Fiona is completely unable to process this and sinks into a dead faint. This time she stays totally out cold through it all. If the game has been completed once before, a secret cutscene will play immediately after this, showing Fiona laid out on a laboratory table in a different outfit and Riccardo testing her fertility by inserting a rod into her. He apparently does not even need to sedate or restrain her at any point during this, as she remains utterly passed out from the shock from before. She wakes up much later, already having been moved back into her jail cell.
    • If the player has already triggered the worst ending, then this second faint is what gives Riccardo the opportunity to capture Fiona and make her his Breeding Slave outright.
• Gaia's Vengeance: A non-flora version. Fiona was basically created to be the embodiment of Life, and Life is very much not happy with the walking skeletons and perverted mockeries of humanity that the castle's inhabitants have created.
• A Girl and Her X: Both the game's narrative and the player's success literally hinge on the dynamic between Fiona and Hewie, since Hewie is her main means of defense. She also has to rely on him to retrieve items from areas that are inaccessible to her, and he's integral in solving several of the castle's puzzles. How quickly he responds to Fiona's commands depends on how well she treats him.
• Girly Run: Hers is about the same as Yuna's, until she gets scared and starts sprinting in an uncontrolled panic.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a fair-haired, fair-skinned virgin and an innocent who finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
• Haunted Heroine: Fiona has never heard of Belli Castle and wants no part of it, and with good reason. As the game's title says: it's on haunted ground. Worse, the malevolent architecture and its inhabitants are all either trying to kill her or rape her. The only way out is by surviving its dangers long enough to unravel its secrets and learn the unsettling truth about her family.
• In the Blood: It's never really explained how she can become such an effective alchemist in a single night with no training and limited resources, so this trope is presumably the reason. That, and, when your body is already filled with the metaphorical holy grail of alchemy, reverse-engineering all the other stuff the art can create might be relatively easy.
• Kick Chick: Fiona's basic attack. Gets stronger if she's wearing harder boots.
• Lampshade Hanging: She sometimes lampshades the overly scary things she finds in the castle.
  "Is someone just trying to scare me?"
• Laughing Mad: In Ending D, Riccardo succeeds in capturing Fiona. The realization that she was raped by her uncle and is now pregnant with his child/reincarnation causes her to lose what's left of her sanity and laugh despondently.
• Living MacGuffin: Deconstructing this is almost the entire plot of the game. Fiona's body is filled with a magical, life-granting elixir, which seems great, except it means that the easiest way for people who want said elixir to get at it is to cut her open and take it.
• Lust Object: Subverted. While Riccardo does desperately want to get between Fiona's legs, it's her Azoth that he's after rather than her body. If he succeeds in impregnating her, she'll eventually give birth to his reincarnation. Daniella envies Fiona as a result^note Daniella is incapable of feeling pleasure due to being experimented on by Lorenzo, who also brainwashed her into believing she's a homunculus and attempts to Slut Shame her for it (seen at 32:46-33:54)..
• Ms. Fanservice: Fiona is one of, if not THE most intentionally sexualized character in all of gaming. The game does not play it for laughs, as two of the stalkers have lascivious motives, leaving Fiona terrified and appalled by their intentions toward her.
• Nice Girl: Demure, polite, and a lover of animals in general. Upon meeting Hewie the second time and finding him bound to a tree, she immediately rushes to his aid. This act of kindness is what allows her to escape from the castle.
• Only Sane Woman: Fiona is a normal college student with no weird quirks and is completely out of the loop regarding her family's dark history. She reacts to the various freaks and bizarre sights in the Belli Estate with fear and revulsion, and to the constant talk of Azoth with confusion.
• Princess Carry: Fiona receives one from Riccardo after she faints, though it isn't with good intentions.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Invoked during Ending C, which is only possible with a New Game+ file. If Fiona spares Debilitas and visits him in his shack afterward, he'll give her the key to the main gate, which allows her to leave the castle early and effectively circumvent 2/3 of the game.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Fiona looks exactly like a younger version of her mother, Ayla◊.
• Took a Level in Badass: By the end of the game, she has overcome her fear of her adversaries, earned the respect of Debilitas, if she spares him instead of killing him, and finally succeeds in escaping from the castle with Hewie.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Optional at the player's behest, and doing so will lead to the worst ending of the game.
• Virgin Tension: Fiona's is constantly at risk since Riccardo plans to rape her in order to impregnate her with his reincarnation. After she goes unconscious in the forest, he even strips her down and gives her an ovulation test.^note According to the results, she'd begin ovulating within the next 2-3 days
• When She Smiles: It's rare that you see it, given the circumstances, but it's almost angelic when she does.

Hewie

An intelligent white German Shepherd Fiona found tied to a tree. Seeming well-cared for, he drives off Debilitas and becomes a valuable companion to Fiona. He is able to detect traps and nearby enemies, sniff out hidden items, and get items Fiona cannot reach. Like any pet, the more Hewie likes Fiona, the faster he'll respond to her call and commands. He is Fiona's main form of defense and can be praised for doing good things and scolded for being disobedient. This ordinary dog seems to be Fiona's very key to escaping the castle.

Being mean to Hewie will cause him to die and give you the worst ending in the game.

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• Action Pet: A White German Shepard that listens to you while ripping people a new one on demand? Yes, please!
• Badass Adorable: When Fiona isn’t in danger, he is a very friendly dog. When Fiona is in danger, he will viciously attack anyone who tries to harm her.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Upon first encounter, the poor dog is tied to a tree with a wire digging into his neck. Once freed, Hewie is so grateful that he later saves Fiona from Debilitas and joins her in her quest to escape the castle.
• Canine Companion: Hewie serves as Fiona's primary means of defense and is also required for solving many of the castle's puzzles. At other times, he's used to snag items that are in areas which are inaccessible for Fiona.
• Deadpan Snarker: His internal commentary regarding Fiona or the situation tends to be rather hilarious and snarky, though it is only viewable on Hard Mode.
• Death by Newbery Medal: A requirement to get Ending D.
• Declaration of Protection: A nonverbal version considering he's a dog, but he stands up to Debilitas and then continues to protect Fiona for the rest of the game. Proof that dogs can be a girl's best friend too.
• Deuteragonist: The game is almost as much about him as it is Fiona. He is her loyal protector who always stays by her side and would die for her if given the chance.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: He warns Fiona before Debilitas attacks. He'll also bark and growl if there's a stalker, death trap or luminescent nearby.
• For Want Of A Nail: Played straight in the worst ending, where his absence causes Fiona to be trapped in Ricardo's dungeon.
• Killed Off for Real: Can happen on Hard Mode if he sustains too much damage and his wounds aren't treated, which results in a Non-Standard Game Over. Also happens in Ending D.
• Leitmotif: Precious Hewie. A gentle music box melody which perfectly depicts the calming, gentle side of Hewie who is always there for Fiona.
• Mysterious Past: Hewie's collar reveals he had another owner at some point, but even after escaping the castle, he doesn't seem interested in returning to them. The game seems to imply that he was once owned by Lorenzo. He also may or may not be the dog Leon saves from the trap in Resident Evil 4.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Acts as this to Fiona.
• Pet Interface: As per the Canine Companion entry.
• The Power of Friendship: Implied to be how he walks away from a gunshot wound, even if Fiona doesn't come help him, given that he only dies when his relationship with her is at its lowest possible value.
• Relationship Values: An important aspect of the game. How quickly and reliably Hewie responds to Fiona's commands depends entirely on how well the player treats him. However, if the player mistreats him, Hewie may ignore Fiona and, in extreme cases, even attack her himself!

The Stalkers

In General

• Ax-Crazy: All of them except for Debilitas will stop at nothing to kill Fiona.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: They won't hesitate to attack or outright kill Hewie if he gets in their way, and will sometimes even pursue him specifically.
• The Determinator: They will not stop chasing Fiona until they are dead (or, in Debilitas' case, defeated).
• Evil Brit: All of them have English accents, with the exception of Debilitas.
• Evil Is Bigger: They all stand taller than Fiona.
• Leitmotif: They have their themes for when they aren't around, are nearby and hunting for her, actively chasing Fiona, and are fighting Fiona.

Debilitas

Voiced by: Lex Lang

The mentally stunted gardener of Belli Castle. He mistakes Fiona for a big doll and pursues her, but harbors no murderous intent; he just wants to play. Problem is that he hugs her too hard.

Fiona can choose to let him live by dropping the chandelier on him during his boss fight, or she can end up killing him with Hewie and the stun bombs she finds scattered around the castle. On a second playthrough or beyond and if Fiona spared him previously, using the chandelier on Debilitas will make him give you a castle key if you visit him afterwards, which leads to Ending C.

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• Accidental Murder: Does this to Fiona if she fails to escape his grasp.
• Ambiguous Situation: Of all the stalkers, his game over screen is the only one that's left ambiguous as to what he's doing to Fiona; it's speculated he eats her, tears her apart, or even rapes her, but it's purely left to interpretation.
  • The noises seem to imply that he's dismembering Fiona in some way. In all likelihood, he's probably just trying to play with her corpse and being too rough about it.
• Anti-Villain: Unlike every other stalker in the game, Debilitas is not trying to kill Fiona. He just likes playing with dolls, and seems to think Fiona is a much better toy than what he already owns. He's like a child who does not know his own strength and hasn't got a good grasp on not breaking things yet, like people's spines.
• And Call Him "George": Debilitas doesn't harbor any conscious hostility towards Fiona. However, he thinks she is a doll and his first reaction when catching her is to hug her, which can result in him accidentally crushing her spine due to his strength.
• Ax-Crazy: Subverted, unlike every other resident of Belli Castle. He is merely misguided and relatively docile when not riled up and pursuing Fiona.
• Bear Hug: How he kills Fiona if he catches her, hugging her until her spine snaps.
• The Berserker: After Fiona picks up the Lunar Refractor, Debilitas becomes enraged and starts permanently sprinting after her. He is also more likely to drop on top of Fiona and instantly kill her if she is tired or panicking.
• The Butcher: Seen preparing meat in the cinematic intro.
• Defeat Means Respect: Happens if you drop the chandelier on him. Afterwards, Debilitas regards Fiona with reverence and even bows to her, leaving her alone for the rest of the game. It's implied, judging from how he looks at a statue of an angel and then Fiona, that he concludes Fiona is an angel.
• Dumb Muscle: Very mentally deficient and has the mind of a young child. He can easily lift Fiona off the ground and crush her ribs in mere seconds.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of the game, if he survives his fight with Fiona. He gets to stay in the place he's accustomed to, and it's now free of all the sadists who used to live there.
• Extreme Doormat: He is extremely subservient to Riccardo, giving up on pursuing Fiona the moment he is told to leave. Justified in that Riccardo is the castle's keeper and his creator.
• Heel–Face Turn: Should Fiona spare him. He wasn't evil to begin with, though, just unable to understand the gravity of his actions.
• Manchild: Even without counting his childish demeanor, he loves to play with dolls.
• Meaningful Name: "Debilitas" refers to his mental deficiency, including the deformed features he has physically such as his eyes and hunched back.
• Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: He simply doesn't know any better and is incapable of understanding why Fiona won't let him play with her, which is why he resorts to violence.
• Obliviously Evil: He has no malicious intentions towards Fiona at all, and even helps her escape the castle in Ending C. He just wants to play with her because he thinks she is a life-sized doll. Problem is, he doesn't know his own strength, which makes him even more terrifying than he would be if he was actually evil.
• Our Homunculi Are Different: Like the majority of the stalkers. He in particular was created with samples of dog placenta, which may or may not have played a part in how he turned out to be a failure.
• Sole Survivor: Should Fiona spare him and not escape early, he essentially inherits Belli Castle, with all its other residents dead and Fiona leaving.
• Spanner in the Works: Becomes one in New Game Plus, as Ending C is achieved by Debilitas giving Fiona the key to the front gate of Belli Castle. This completely derails the plans of every stalker in the game, caused by the lowly groundskeeper they'd ignore otherwise.
• The Speechless: Subverted in that he can speak, but not coherently, only communicating with short, garbled phrases and gestures. He does, however, understand English and Latin commands.
• Token Good Teammate: Out of all the stalkers in the game, Debilitas is the only one who doesn't actually want to kill Fiona, as he thinks that she is a doll for him to play with, and he has no grasp of the gravity of his actions or his own strength. He will even help her out by giving her a key in Ending C if she visits him in his shed.
• Warm-Up Boss: He doesn't fill any niche, unlike the other stalkers, and his level is fairly mundane. There are also two ways of defeating him.

Daniella

Voiced by: Moira Quirk

A maid with ethereal beauty, Daniella appears mostly emotionless and harmless to Fiona... at first.

Daniella believes herself to be a homunculus, but is, in fact, a normal (though infertile) human woman. After being kidnapped at a young age, she was brainwashed into believing that her master, Lorenzo, created her to be the "perfect woman." However, she is unable to feel pain (which explains the blood on her fingers), has no sense of taste, and cannot feel pleasure. With feelings of being incomplete, Daniella is driven to insanity. She screams at her reflection, and wants Fiona's Azoth to be a complete being... even if it means cutting out Fiona's womb while she's still alive. She tends to swing back and forth between doing her duties as a maid, and has an extremely unnerving laugh.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: One of her attacks is to swipe her long nails at Fiona.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: When she's not in Ax-Crazy mode (which she usually is), she'll behave like this mixed with Emotionless Girl. However, her hair is paler than most examples.
• Ambiguously Gay: Her hair is lavender, a common color associated with lesbianism, she can literally hide in a closet, and has numerous Ho Yay moments with Fiona...
• Ax-Crazy: She could quite easily be a contender for one of the most psychotic female characters ever in gaming. She's got a long list of mental issues that combine to make her horrifying.
• Become a Real Boy: Her ultimate goal. Except... she already is a real woman and not a homunculus as she believes herself to be, according to Word of God. And the most depressing part of Daniella's backstory is how, due to her upbringing, drug experiments, and abuse from Riccardo and Lorenzo, she never comes to realize that she was in fact human all along and didn't need to hunt down Fiona in a desperate attempt to be "complete."
• Berserk Button: Her reflection, which she shrieks at the sight of.
• Boss-Altering Consequence:
  • Daniella is normally equipped with a large glass shard, but if you interact with her while she's tending the fireplace, she will replace that glass shard with a hot fire poker, making her stronger and faster.
  • Daniella hates looking at herself in the mirror, and if she comes across one while chasing you, she will be temporarily distracted by it and shatter the mirror.
  • You can throw sulphuric acid at her to temporarily incapacitate her, but if you throw acetic acid instead, it will do nothing to her.
• Broken Bird: Evidently became this after Lorenzo kidnapped her as a child. She can't remember her past, hates herself for being infertile, is implied to cut herself in an attempt to feel pain, and is used as a punching bag by the sadistic Riccardo. It's more than likely that this chain of events caused her to become The Stoic.
• Creepy Housekeeper: Before she goes bonkers, this is the impression one will get from her.
• Dark Action Girl: Daniella is an unhinged woman who stalks Fiona around the castle with aims to kill her with a shard of glass and potentially a fire poker.
• Emotionless Girl: She appears to be this to a T at first, but she eventually subverts it HARD once she finally snaps and becomes full-blown Ax-Crazy.
• Feel No Pain: Played straight, coupled with her inability to feel any physical stimuli.
• Freak Out: If Daniella runs into an uncovered mirror, she will spend at least a couple minutes clutching her head and screaming hysterically. She'll break the mirror once she regains control of herself.
• Giggling Villain: In her manic phases, and at the prospect of gaining Azoth.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: When Fiona activates the light for the floor mirror during her boss fight, Daniella shrieks so loud that the glass ceiling shatters.
• Go Out with a Smile: When she dies, she's grinning from ear to ear because she's overjoyed to finally experience feeling.
• Head Desk: Does this against a mirror to gain her initial weapon. She will also do it to other mirrors around the castle if stunned by them.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Goes for this if she catches Fiona. She also ends up impaled by a gigantic shard of glass.
• Lady of War: Daniella is a very elegant and feminine maid who isn't at all above assaulting people and dogs with glass shards or fire pokers.
• Laughing Mad: Happens often after she completely snaps.
• Lightning Bruiser: Becomes this if she gets her fire poker in an optional cutscene. Her already fast walking speed is switched up to sprinting, she gains much more health, and almost all her attacks barring her hand swipe will either knock down or instantly kill Fiona.
• Meaningful Name: Daniella is the female equivalent of "Daniel", a Biblical Hebrew name. Her faithfulness towards her master Lorenzo suggests that her name is meant to invoke Daniel's faithfulness to God. Alternatively, Daniel is also the name of a fallen angel in the Book of Enoch, which is rather fitting. According to Word of God, she lost her freedom as a girl when she was kidnapped by Lorenzo. She had "fallen from her master's grace" due to her body being infertile.
• Mood-Swinger: After going full-blown Ax-Crazy, there are some places in her area of the castle where she will be completely uninterested in Fiona, having gone back to being an Emotionless Girl. The second you leave such an area, all bets are off.
• No Sense of Personal Space: There are moments where she gets uncomfortably close to Fiona, even before deciding she needs her Azoth.
• Not So Stoic: As Fiona will gladly tell you.
• Ojou Ringlets
• The Ophelia: Very pretty, but has a whole cocktail of mental issues.
• Our Homunculi Are Different: Or so we're led to be believe. She is, in fact, a normal human woman, odd tendencies and tears of blood aside.
• Phallic Weapon: Her glass shard and fire poker arguably count as this, especially in the cutscene before her boss fight where she licks it shortly after Slut-Shaming Fiona.
• Rage Against the Reflection: Really does not like mirrors, to the point where you can stun her by showing her one, causing her to stand still and scream for a bit. She'll eventually headbutt the mirror until it breaks.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Her seeming lack of emotions, purple hair and extreme deference to the masters of the castle all cement her as this from the moment she appears. Also a rare example of an antagonist fitting this archetype.
• Sanity Has Advantages: Daniella would be very capable of catching Fiona were it not for her mental issues. The Clock Tower Wiki lists the disorders she apparently has and how they translate into game terms, like her screaming at mirrors or deciding that "cleaning time" means she can't chase Fiona for awhile.
• Statuesque Stunner: She appears to be very tall and she's very (eerily) beautiful.
• Tears of Blood: Sheds them shortly before her boss fight.
• Tragic Monster: After finding out more about her, she can garner some sympathy when not actively hunting for your blood. And then the Word of God mentioned above makes her quest for Azoth absolutely pointless!
• Uncanny Valley Girl: An oddly pale woman who neither smiles nor moves naturally, even before she snaps.
• The Un-Smile: When she's not expressionless or Laughing Mad, she's somewhere between this and a Psychotic Smirk.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Daniella is much tougher than Debilitas, being faster, smarter, and even more physically threatening by virtue of brandishing a weapon. Many of her attacks will wound Fiona and she is cunning enough to employ tactics of thrashing at the ground or flailing her weapon around just to send Fiona into a panic.

Riccardo

^{Click here to see his face} 

Voiced by: Greg Ellis

The hooded castle keeper, Riccardo is fully intent on making Fiona "his." He usually acts as Mr. Exposition towards Fiona until...

He reveals himself to be one of Lorenzo's many "failed" clones to be bearers of Azoth. Technically, he is Fiona's "uncle" and her father's "brother." His goal is to impregnate Fiona so he can be "reborn" with Azoth as a means to live forever. He succeeds in the worst ending.

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• Attempted Rape: Poor Fiona. Happens in the worst ending, making it confirmed rape.
• Ax-Crazy: He is sadistically cruel to a fault. Best demonstrated in his chase sequences, where every so often he'll break down quietly Laughing Mad.
• Bald of Evil: Under the hood, he's completely bald.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In Ending D, where he successfully rapes Fiona and impregnates her.
• Cain and Abel: He is the Cain to Ugo's Abel. In-game, Lorenzo mentions that Riccardo had always been "a troublemaker."
• Climax Boss: He is the last boss you fight before the Point of No Return, and huge details are revealed about the plot because of him.
• Creepy Uncle: Played With. As Ugo's clone, Riccardo is technically Fiona's uncle. His ambition to "impregnate" Fiona so he can steal her Azoth might not be overtly sexual per se, but you'd be hard pressed to claim with a straight face that it, along with his constant demands that she let him "into her womb", aren't heavily laden with Incest Subtext.
• Disney Villain Death: Falls off the Water Tower to his death.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: His treatment of Fiona as nothing more than a vessel for him to be reborn as an immortal because of her Azoth makes him come across as a hardcore misogynist.
• Evil Laugh: Frequently does hammy laughs to show how much he actually enjoys tormenting Fiona.
• Evil Uncle: Being a clone of Fiona's father, Ugo, he is technically Fiona's uncle.
• Facial Horror: He has deep cracks all over his face.
• Faux Affably Evil: He seems like a nice guy when he tells Fiona that she has inherited Belli Castle and expresses concern when she is about to faint, but he drops all pretense of being kind when Fiona refuses to stay there.
• I Love the Dead: If he kills Fiona, he can be heard raping her corpse during the Game Over screen.
• Idiot Ball: Carries this during his earlier chase sequences. He plans to impregnate Fiona, using her Azoth to be reborn with immortality. Shooting her in the head is very detrimental to his plan.
• Immortality Seeker: The reason why he wants to impregnate Fiona is so that he will be reincarnated as an Azoth-filled clone baby that is eternally young.
• Knight of Cerebus: Haunting Ground was already a dark game, but his section is when the plot really starts to kick in, and unlike Debilitas and Daniella, who don't know their own strength and suffer from severe mental illness which makes them act out respectively, he has no sympathetic qualities and is largely sane.
• Mad Artist: A minor example. An optional cutscene (at 6:24) reveals him to be a rather good pianist and a sculptor to boot.
• One-Hit Kill: During his initial chases where he's armed with a gun, this is his particular niche as a stalker, making him far and away the most difficult stalker in the game to engage in combat for item drops.
• Rapid Aging: As a flawed clone lacking Azoth, his body is aging faster than normal. It's also implied by Fiona's description of his corpse that Lorenzo taking his Azoth has had this effect.
• Rush Boss: His boss battle in a nutshell. He can kill Fiona with one shot. Hewie can take him down with one bite.
• Sadist: Riccardo is seen beating Daniella in an optional cutscene, with the game's manual implying he enjoys physically abusing her often. During his chase sequences, he is positively relishing in Fiona's terror. To the point he may get carried away and shoot her dead.
• The Starscream: Riccardo despises Lorenzo and has seized the castle from him in his weakened state. It is seen throughout the game that Riccardo is actively trying to find and kill the old man, which is why Lorenzo is in hiding.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's the only stalker in the game who can truly qualify as being completely and utterly evil, as the rest of the stalkers have some excuse or reason for why they chase after Fiona. Debilitas, who is completely unaware of the gravity of his actions, has no concept of his own strength and Fiona's fragility. Daniella suffers from being severely mentally ill and is plagued by irrational thoughts and a lack of control of her own emotions, which leads her to lash out at Fiona. Even Lorenzo, while also evil and a sadist, is somewhat more understandable than Riccardo, as he merely sees Fiona as a steppingstone towards his goal of achieving the "Great Truth". Riccardo, however, displays nothing but malice and sadism towards everybody but himself, and shows a huge amount of twisted glee when chasing Fiona down so that he may rape her and use her to be reborn as an immortal.
• Younger Than They Look: He's only a few years older than Fiona. As a flawed clone lacking Azoth, he's aging rapidly.

Lorenzo (Unmarked Spoilers Below)

^{Click to see him young} 

Voiced by: Enn Reitel (old) and Robin Atkin Downes (middle age/young)

An unseen figure who tries to help Fiona as much as he can.

Lorenzo is a genius (if mad) alchemist who made an elixir of life to cheat death. He tried to make clones of himself, all of them failing to produce Azoth except Ugo, Fiona's father. Ugo, against Lorenzo's wishes, married a woman named Ayla and left the castle, eventually fathering Fiona. Fate drew the family back towards Belli Castle, and the car accident sets the events of the game in motion. Lorenzo just wants to kill Fiona for her Azoth.

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• Above Good and Evil: In his philosophical speech towards Fiona at the end, he expresses being above human morality in pursuit of the Great Truth.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Calls Hewie a "meddlesome cur" when he attacks him. As he's in his young form when this happens, it might be a subtle way to remind the audience that he's an ancient being from an earlier time.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Lorenzo's goals with immortality are to achieve the "Great Truth", a legend in alchemy that concerns ascending past the mortal plane to understand why humanity and the universe exist, and if there is a god behind it - a reason for life, consciousness, and existence. It may also involve finding other life in the cosmos, and reuniting with the original progenitor/creator of life.
• Ax-Crazy: If he wasn't insane to begin with, he gets worse after resurrecting from being burned alive.
• Big Bad: Lorenzo is behind virtually everything bad that happens to Fiona throughout the entire game - the reason the bastard's after her to begin with is because she was fathered by his only successful clone against his wishes. Disregarding Debilitas, every stalker after Fiona is his creation and has their sights on her because of the Azoth in her body.
• Bishounen Line: Goes through this after his old body is crushed. He changes from a decrepit wheelchair-bound old man to a distinguished middle-aged man to, finally, a handsome red-haired young man with defined muscles.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: His claim of being Fiona's ally couldn't be further from the truth. He, too, is after her Azoth, and will do whatever is necessary to get her all to himself.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dropped into a pit of lava. This takes several minutes to kill him.
  • Beforehand, he is also flattened by a rock crusher.
• Devour the Dragon: A hidden cutscene after Riccardo's death shows Lorenzo dragging himself over to his body and sucking out Riccardo's remaining Azoth. This is why Lorenzo rejuvenates later; if that amount of Azoth was able to turn a decrepit old man into a powerful young sorcerer, it's no surprise that he wants the Azoth spring inside Fiona's body.
• Dirty Old Man: He watches Fiona change through a peephole, and he also set up cameras throughout the castle to keep an eye on her. Keep in mind that he is technically Fiona's grandfather.
• Evil All Along: He isn't actually trying to help Fiona escape, he simply wants her for himself.
• Evil Genius: He might be a twisted and completely unethical individual, but he is genuinely the single most intelligent character in the setting, in spite of his madness.
• Evil Redhead: When Lorenzo regains his youth, his hair is red.
• Expy: His old form looks remarkably like Ozwell E. Spencer, while his young form looks like a red-haired Vergil.
• Hot Guys Are Bastards: In his young form.
• Immortality: Type X.
• Implacable Man: He survives getting blown up, Squashed Flat by a rock-crushing machine, and getting burned alive. He finally dies from his severe burns.
• Infernal Retaliation: After being defeated in his young form, he gets back up, while on fire (for the record, he's beaten by dropping him into a pit of lava). He then spends the next few minutes making a frenzied last-ditch effort to nab Fiona, killing her instantly if he manages to catch her. Fiona can't really do much except get the hell out of the castle and let Lorenzo quite literally burn himself out.
• I Was Quite a Looker: In his final form, which is him at the prime of his life as a young adult, he is a handsome man with a well-sculpted body and a full head of red hair. Even the middle-aged appearance he takes before he reverts to being his young self looks pretty decent compared to the state he was previously in.
• Life Drinker: How he manages to stay alive. Used in conjunction with Devour the Dragon, as detailed above.
• Lightning Bruiser: His young form is the strongest stalker in the game by far, possessing a variety of both hard-hitting and instant-kill attacks, being able to teleport, and sprinting by default.
• Longevity Treatment: He uses Azoth to regain his youth and power.
• Mad Scientist: He created Ugo and Riccardo, after all.
• Man on Fire: After falling into a pit of lava.
• Meaningful Name: Lorenzo is Italian for "someone from Laurentum." This ancient city's name may have been derived from the Latin word "laurus", which means laurel, "a symbol of wisdom and accomplishment." These terms likely relate to Lorenzo's ancestry and his own accomplishments as a master alchemist.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Even if he does succeed in spending his last ounce of strength catching and killing Fiona as he burns to death and gains immortality upon extracting her Azoth, he would barely benefit from it, as his body would still continue to burn from molten fire.
• Mysterious Informant: He leaves a lot of notes for Fiona to find.
• Oh, Crap!: Goes through this in Ending C when he realizes that Fiona has escaped from the castle, wheeling after her while shouting her name in desperation. This is also how he reacts to a couple of his deaths.
• Really 700 Years Old: Lorenzo has been alive since the 1860s.
• Sadist: Lorenzo only pretends to care about Fiona's well-being in order to earn her trust and drops the act once the two finally meet. He temporarily locks Fiona in a room just to watch her struggle and despair, and when stalking her in his young form, he will frequently stop to laugh and sarcastically applaud Fiona's efforts.
• Say My Name: He has a tendency of calling Fiona's name, usually in desperation.
• Unintentional Backup Plan: Ayla came along and took Ugo away from him, screwing up his goal for immortality. However, as fate would have it, the flawed clone Riccardo also sought his brother's Azoth, which had been passed onto Fiona. Lorenzo now had to bide his time hiding, until the opportunity to seize back control, presented itself.
• Villainous Breakdown: After his second defeat. When he emerges from a pit of lava reduced to a flaming skeleton, he screams in a fit of rage and pain as he chases after Fiona one last time to futilely extract her Azoth.
• Walking Spoiler: As one can see, it's very hard to say much about Lorenzo without giving a lot of the plot away.

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