Funny / Witch's Heart

Funny face, funny face, funny face, FUNNY FAAAAA~CE!

Being stuck in a mansion filled with demons doesn't mean it leaves no room for humor.

SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED, READ WITH CAUTION!

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Main Game

Ashe's Route

• Ashe asks Claire what she would wish for if she had the Witch's Heart. She replies that she would love food, jewels, pretty things, and to be adored by people as Claire Elford, the goddess of pure beauty. Ashe's reaction can be summed up as controlled patience.
  Ashe: "Quite a lofty dream, there..."
• After the previous incident, Ashe and Claire form a team to search for the Witch's Heart, (allegedly) for the sake of Claire's dream of infinite shortcake. They decide to name their team "Shortcake Project", or "SCP" (not that one), and go on their merry way to find recruits. Everyone refuses.
  • Wilardo in particular won't have any of it, being uncharacteristically exasperated at Ashe (who he knows is lying) and Claire's tomfoolery.
    Wilardo: "...Just buy your own stupid cake."
  • On the meta side of things, IZ initially used "SKP" for the name of the Ashe + Claire team, and had to be told that, in English, "cake" does not start with a K like it does in Japanese ("keeki"). They were also told, after the translation into English was complete, that SCP means something else in the West.
• In Night 3, the crew are invited by him to tell stories to each other. Most of them choose horror stories, but what tale does Sirius tell? Cinderella.
  • Ashe tries to protest, but all Sirius cares about is that Ashe is dropping spoilers during said protests. Spoilers. To Cinderella.

Wilardo's Route

• During Wilardo's route, one can find Ashe sitting alone in the roof. He'll mention that while the monsters look scary at first, they're starting to look cute to him. And theeeeen he gets startled by a monster hiding in a flower pot.
  Ashe: "Okay, nevermind!!!"
• Invective, possessing (part of) Claire's body, is very, very adamant about Wilardo not ogling "her" body, or doing anything weird to her as she sleeps. Wilardo has zero interest in her blatant Reverse Psychology.
  Invective: "Understand this, cretin. If you attempt anything upon me, I shall shout as loud as I can."
  Wilardo: "...Are you dumb or what?"

Sirius' Route

• Claire attempts to make Sirius create happy memories... By making funny faces at him until he becomes happy. Sirius loses his mind.
  • Claire tries the exact same tactic on Noel later on... And it works so well she can't make him stop laughing for a good second or two. She's confused.
• We get a rant from the man himself about the image he has of Claire: a gorilla woman who can kick monsters to death, chomp down huge meals, and pop stuck jars open with zero effort. He even provides us with a neat graph of this terrifying woman!
• The fact that Sirius straight up refuses to fight the miniboss, being the only partner to do so in the whole game! He ends up helping anyway...by taking out the ridiculously weak minions.
  Sirius: "No! I don't wanna!"
  • Seeing Claire deals the final blow on the monster by a series of kicks terrifies Sirius, leading to him backing down and calling her "gorilla woman".

Bonus Stage

• Ashe tends to Noel's sickness by making him some ginger soup with cute, star-shaped carrots: something he made for his sister years before. That in itself would be, and is, a Heartwarming Moment... If it ended there. Noel tells Claire about the cute carrots, which excites both of them enough for them to peer pressure Ashe into giving them a cooking lesson. Ashe tense at first, History Repeats implications not lost on him, but he can't resist two Manchildren pleading for him to teach them.
  • During the lesson proper, we find out how much of a Lethal Chef Noel is (which was only mentioned in extra material at that point): Ashe notes he can't even hold a knife the correct way, and Claire has to teach him how to crack an egg, because he exploded them in his hand. Ashe's reaction is self-explanatory.
  • Once the dinner is served, Ashe, Claire and Noel are so happy and energetic about the fun time they had they put everyone else at the dinner table off. Sirius tries to initiate one of his rants, but Wilardo cuts him off by saying he's already done eating and trying to rush out of the situation altogether.
    Sirius: Trying to run away, are you?!
    Wilardo leaves in a hurry
• During Wilardo's section, Gramps gets pickpocketed by a girl. After hearing her explanation about a starving family, Gramps gives her a 500 coin note, which upsets little Wilardo. After being asked what motivated him to donate to a criminal who harmed him, well...
  Gramps: ...She had some big'uns.
  Wilardo, unnerved: (...Old perv.)
• In Ashe's flashback section, we see that his family wanted him to hook up with someone, but he dodges the questions about having a girlfriend by saying how much he loves his family. Lilia, his younger sister, accuses him of using his family as an excuse for being single. The rest of the family agrees.
• Young Ashe helping Matty study for med school entrance exams, something they know they'll need to compete over, is a Heartwarming Moment. Young Ashe "helping" Matty study by making him tackle a whole med book in one afternoon is this.
  Young Ashe: You're not leaving until we finish this! Let's do our best!

Sirius' Conclusion

• This game starts right at the point where Claire tries cheering Sirius up with funny faces. Since she has regained her memories of him at this point, she tries extra hard to connect. The result is the trope image. Sirius is terrified.
• Noel is feeling bad for mistreating Ashe and being Properly Paranoid. Ashe, having no idea why Noel lashed out at him and seeking to reconcile, makes the gang some traditionally cut rabbit shaped apples. Everyone is impressed. Noel is enamored with them, as well, but he's also kind of jealous of Ashe's knife skills.
  • Due to Noel's failure in keeping his focus in check, Rouge kicks him, berating him for forgetting he's in the last possible timeline and trying to hang out with people. Noel complains about how her heels hurt, and that causes her to admit she really enjoyed kicking him.
• When Sirius is nearly Driven to Madness in his dream, Claire tries to shake him up by calling his name repeatedly. It proves to be effective, but even when Sirius is awake, she just goes on screaming and screaming... Until Sirius has to pinch her cheeks to shut her up.

Extra Material

All extra material, be it extra comics, illustrations or Word of God unrelated to previous games, goes in this section.

• Noel's very slow development in baking.
  • In the White Day 2018 illustrations, whatever he's making is already a smoking atrocity, and Sirius is desperately trying to save it by applying a recipe. Noel doesn't understand.
    Sirius, at his wits' end: Is... Isn't this completely different from this recipe? You should've done it like myself and bought something, not tried to make it yourself!
    Noel, confused: B-but aren't my feelings the most important thing?
    Sirius: Don't try to say that to cover for your own failures!
  • In the White Day 2019 illustration, his guide is now Ashe (we can presume Sirius got fed up and stopped trying to help). His mixture isn't smoking anymore, and Ashe is actually helping him with the process, instead of just showing the recipe like Sirius did. Noel still seems confused, but something it a little better at least.
  • As of 2020's White Day illustration, he apparently managed to finally deliver something to Claire. Also, Zizel seems to have snuck a gift in Claire's arms herself...
  • In the 2021 illustration, the boys have apparently decided to work together to bake a cake, with Ashe doing the baking proper and the other three being in charge of decorations. Wilardo and Sirius are instructing Noel using a drawn guide, and Ashe... Seems a little worried.
• In Claire's 2019 Birthday illustration, we get a twofer of funny moments: Ashe misusing the Bubble powerup to dive with Pippi, and Zizel Eating the Eye Candy.
• In this extra comic, Claire asks Wilardo to help her read a difficult book. He looks at it for a while, slowly realizing he can't read it either. Sirius and Ashe, who have the in-game ability of reading multiple languages and complicated kanji burst into the room in glasses, mocking Wilardo's lack of culture and patronizingly offering help. Noel, who also lacks the ability, quietly comes in and comforts the poor man.
• In this comic, Noel realizes he has two Idiot Hair strands and Claire and Sirius both have none, so he donates one to Sirius and one to Claire. Sirius is both disgusted and confused as to why he'd even want an ahoge to begin with, but the donation awakened something in Claire. She looms over Ashe, who is reluctant and afraid, and steals his ahoge and his identity. Wilardo, now also devoid of identity, passes his own single ahoge to an ahoge-hungry Claire, who finally completes her ahoge collection. Ashe is presumed dead.
  • In the following comic, the ahoge situation is treated like a Zombie Apocalypse instead of a power grabbing game: Ashe, Wilardo and Noel offer to "make" Claire and Sirius ahoges. Sirius and Claire run, but Claire trips up and Sirius is Forced to Watch as the other boys "make Claire an ahoge".
    Claire: KYAAAAAAA—-
• Wilardo and Ashe are Those Two Guys of Witch's Heart, hanging around each other and setting up a Friendly Rivalry between them. Wilardo is a Pintsized Powerhouse of 169cm stature. Ashe is Lean and Mean, of a very respectable 177cm stature. IZ answers the questions we all had about this height setup by having Wilardo accidentally stab Ashe with his Idiot Hair.
  Ashe, in visible pain: "My eye.... Your ahoge... In my eye...It hurts..."
  Wilardo: ...My bad.
• The Umbrella of Togetherness illustrations have it all: Heartwarming Moments, Funny moments, Ship Tease, Ho Yay...
  • In the first illustration, Noel and Claire are together under the umbrella, held by Noel. Sirius is also there, ouside of Noel's umbrella and catching the rain in only a raincoat.
  • In the second Illustration, a storm kicks in, flipping Ashe's umbrella from himself and Wilardo.
  • In the third, Ashe and Wilardo have to rely on help from their friends to solve the situation: Ashe has Noel and Claire help with his hair care while Wilardo and Sirius miserably try to dry up with towels.
• During the Tapioca Challenge meme, IZ drew Claire and all demons sans Rouge trying it out for themselves. Two of them had more fortunate results.
  • "It is not good to play with food."
  • In an update, Zizel annoys Claire by splashing her with water, knowing very well Claire can't retaliate due to Zizel's selective intangibility. Claire, frustrated, gets two tapioca cups, drops one in front of Zizel's chest which causes it to fall onto the floor, then does the same to herself, supporting it enough for her to leave the scene happily drinking it. Zizel is mortified.
• The crew's interactions with Pippi, the Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant "mascot" of the series (and arguably IZ's works in general) are always hilarious both in and out of the games.
  • In their first proper meeting with him:
    • Claire tries very hard to convince herself that Pippi is cute, but falls short.
    • Noel doesn't understand.
    • Ashe is superficially cordial and friendly, but is internally wondering how edible Pippi is, and if he should cook the rabbit and sneak the result into Wilardo or Sirius' dinner.
    • Sirius just isn't into it at all.
    • Wilardo is skeptical.
  • In a series of small illustrations, the main cast and Charlotte pose for a picture with Pippi. It goes about as well as one would expect.
    • Charlotte pulls her huge scissors on him.
    • Ashe plays along and pulls off a bunny pose (which is redundant when done by Pippi for obvious reasons).
    • Wilardo is left unnerved as Pippi, with a rose in his mouth, flirts with him. Even the Guys Want Him, indeed.
    • Sirius menacingly yanks Pippi by the ears, terrifying the thing. Tha caption even says Sirius has "the eyes of someone looking at garbage".
    • Noel only seems a bit surprised as Pippi clims on his shoulder.
    • And Claire holds Pippi up for him to flex his abundant muscles for the camera.
• In a series of illustrations, IZ speculates about what would happen is the boys happened to switch bodies. Firstly, they drew all the possible combinations, then moved on to a scenario where Ashe switches with Sirius and Wilardo switches with Noel.
  • Sirius and Ashe have a bit of a rocky start, with Sirius immediately freaking out and calling the situation a nightmare, but Ashe, already very used to putting up personas, quickly takes up the role of Sirius and mostly fools Claire, who notes Sirius is being a little too lenient with his teaching. Ashe quickly corrects this by saying, word by word,
    Ashe(in Sirius' body): Well, it's not like I taught it for your sake.
  • Compared to Ashe and Sirius, who end up being fine, Wilardo and Noel don't fare so well. Upon seeing Claire, Noel immediately perks up and shows her a bright smile, causing Claire to be confused since Wilardo is The Stoic. Wilardo quickly pulls Noel aside and scolds him, telling him not to smile with his face. Noel rebukes him by saying his expression is too scary to pass as Noel's own, so they try to switch expressions. The result is... Worrying to say the least. Lastly, Noel decides to visit Rouge, who is less than impressed with Wilardo's body and thinks Noel's charm is ruined.
    Rouge: Your only good point is gone...

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