Nightmare Fuel / The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Warning: Spoilers are unmarked on these pages. You Have Been Warned.

The world of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is ruled over by an unbelievably and comically evil MegaCorp that openly harvests people's organs and our protagonists are utterly depraved Serial Killers who are also not very nice to each other, so it's unsurprising that it has these moments.

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In General:

• The world is some sort of horrific Crapsack World where a MegaCorp (a soft drink corporation, nonetheless) has the rights to seal entire apartments for the sake of harvesting their resident's organs and cover up almost anything just because they say so. Said corp also seemingly has control over the insurance, media and healthcare departments.
  • It's heavily implied that the organ harvesting operation in the Graves apartment isn't even the first or only one. At the start of Episode 2, you can read a newspaper article about an apartment in another city where its residents are ordered to lock themselves in their homes over a chemical plant contamination and wait for emergency services to arrive, which is likely another organ harvesting operation in the works.
• Ashley Graves. This is that Keyaru or Demiurge sort of "this Villain Protagonist is so evil that you'll be cheering for their blood rather than cheering for them despite they're largely targeting Asshole Victims who deserved it". She commits everything from proxy-murder to cannibalizing her victims to sacrificing her parents to demons for money and clairvoyance (they bear no ill-will against their children for the time being despite being Abusive Parents and it's not like they're going to take further action), and remorselessly and gleefully enjoys every moment of it even if her first few kills are unintentional. Oh and she's a horrific sibling abuser towards her brother, uses him for proxy killings and frequently breaks into potentially deadly arguments with him that are pretty unsettling to watch.
  • Her childhood self really isn't any better, and one could say she's in fact worse back then. At least her current self mostly killed people who actually try to kill her; her childhood self, on the other hand, will attempt to get rid of any girl who tried to be nice to Andy. Her mother also apparently neglected her because she was a natural-born sociopath. There was one time where she accidentally killed Andy's childhood friend as a prank by trapping her in a dust-filled box, and because she had asthma she died because of it. This would be still okay if Leyley at least tried to act remorseful over it, but nope, she was completely content with leaving her corpse in the box she locked her in if not for Andy telling her to do a cover-up and takes full advantage of it to blackmail Andy into obeying her orders or she will out him as his childhood friend's killer. It's very clear she's proud of what she did and merely sees it as doing the right thing.
    • When you go check Julia's dormitory in Andrew's dream sequence, you can check the trash can and the phone hung on the wall. The former contains crumpled death threat letters implied to be sent by Ashley to Julia when she was a bit younger. The latter has 127 voicemails, all of them being death threats sent to her. It's heavily implied that not only Ashley drove the poor girl into slitting her own wrists, she also drove her to a failed suicide attempt all for the sake of her big brother obsession.
  • The demon she summons and makes a pact with calls her "Tar Soul". She's also the only person within the story said demon has taken a liking to, as the cultist who summoned it first got his soul stolen quick and none of the others are evil enough to even think of sacrificing a live person to successfully summon one. Even an incomprehensible abomination recognizes this woman as pure evil.
• While Andrew is A Lighter Shade of Black compared to his deranged sister due to being a lot more sympathetic, remorseful, and ultimately a victim of Ashley's manipulation, his Sanity Slippage and path to apathy in the face of it all is just as disturbing, if not far more disturbing than the horrible actions committed by his flat-out depraved sister. The worst of all of this is not in our viewpoint, but rather his viewpoint where he finds himself stuck with ever-increasingly less wriggling space from choosing between becoming just as unhinged as his sister and handler or letting her shame him for killing his childhood friend publicly in front of everyone he knew, and the dire situation has reached a breaking point where he can't do anything to get out from it and pick a third option at all. Also, while Ashley is Laughably Evil at best (and that's saying a lot), Andrew's ever growing apathy and progression from a victim to becoming as much a sociopath as Ashley is almost always played dead seriously, and even the few darkly humorous moments coming from him are signs of how more and more desensitized and apathetic he becomes to the vile crimes they commit.

Episode 1: The Coffin

• The story begins with Andrew and Ashley quarantined in their apartment due to "parasite-laden water", only they've been trapped for months, and are now on the brink of starvation due to their food supply running out, and the wardens sadistically denying them any, despite repeatedly pretending to offer more. Before the story kicks off, the siblings are already starting to weaken from hunger. Oh and the worst thing amongst all of this is...there is no disease. It's an organ harvesting operation where a MegaCorp is sealing off the Graves apartment to starve people to death and harvest their organs and the "parasite water" is a front.
• The neighbor and his summoning ritual at first appears to be another annoyance until he actually succeeds in bringing a demon into his apartment- only to have nothing to offer it and losing his own soul to the demon for his trouble. On the other hand, Ashley successfully summons it to kill a Warden and it becomes one of the few things who genuinely liked her because of how depraved she is.
• When the siblings find the cultist neighbor's body, they make the decision to eat his corpse; Ashley hacks off his limbs while Andrew deals with the rest. He goes into unsavory detail about breaking the spine in order to separate the head, stuffing the body in the freezer. The worst thing of all this it's implied that the cultist is actually still alive without a soul and it's the siblings that killed him, all the demon did was to take his soul.
• When the warden discovers Ashley hiding in the wardrobe, it looks to be a Game Over... only for Andrew to sneak up from behind and murder the man with the cleaver. The Warden deserved every bit of it since he was trying to kill Ashley alongside everyone in that apartment by starving them to death and harvesting their organs, but this shows how ruthless Andrew can be if he wants to.
• The note in the warden's room reveals they were running an Organ Theft operation on the quarantined residents, putting up notes on the doors for the occupant's blood type, then cutting off their food supply and waiting for them to starve. It's hard to feel sorry for what happens to them after that.
• The scene after Ashley comes back downstairs and finding Andrew killed the woman living below them really shows how horrible and outright toxic their relationship can be. Ashley accuses Andrew of having sex with the woman he just killed (despite this being very clearly not the truth) and gleefully rubs him on causing his childhood friend's death, while Andrew retaliates by literally trying to kill her until she begs for mercy and he temporarily holds back for the last time. It's a very uncomfortable scene to watch, especially when it's implied that this is the first time where he grew a spine and stood up against her manipulations only after the siblings essentially voided themselves of all social morals by killing 3 people and sacrificing 1 to a demon.

Episode 2: Graves

• Early on, Ashley receives her first premonition, where a hit man murder both the siblings in their motel room. The siblings are now on a MegaCorp hit list, and made themselves enemies with a seemingly omnipotent corporate governing body.
  • When trying to trick the hitman, the player can check the wardrobe where he's hiding. Doing so will result the the screen turning into a spray of blood, and a game over.
• When Andrew infiltrates the cultist meeting, they're unable to complete their summon. The siblings can optionally go back to do the ritual properly and summon Lord Unknown, who's not only different from the Entity Ashley dealt with, but appears a lot larger and more powerful. However, this one proves unable to communicate with humans and decides to leave (which all things considered might not have been a bad thing).
• It's revealed in this chapter that the girl the two siblings trapped in the box overnight when they were children died in there overnight. When the two open the box, Andrew finds marks showing she desperately tried to claw her way out. Then, they respond by covering it all up by disposing of the body. This isn't even the most horrible thing that could happen. Not only Leyley didn't care about her death by the slightest bit and only meagerly agreed to cover it up because Andy insisted her to do it, she seems to be absolutely proud of it, and took advantage of the incident to blackmail him to submitting to her every whim. The crazed look she gave to a despondent Andy and the words coming from her mouth are reminiscent of an abusive sibling gaslighting and manipulating her elder brother into becoming entirely dependent with her and ostracizing him away from the outside world to keep him all for herself. For those who had suffered from sibling bullies, her treatment to Andrew/Andy hits too close to home.
• At the end of Andrew's dream sequence, Leyley is about to vow a blood oath to Andy, only for her to to give her a crazed gaze and ask him to kill his parents with her. Turns out it was Ashley waking him up and the scene becomes somewhat comedic, but it quickly becomes outright horror when you realize that Ashley is about to kill her degenerate parents over their money and a deal with the demon she made a pact with.
• The murder of Ashley's own parents. All of it.
  • Ashley holds her mother at gunpoint with an empty gun as she is trying to be kind to Andrew and draws her to the basement where she ties her up and orders Andrew to get the rope for her, at which he accidentally wakes up his father too and baits him to the basement where Ashley ties him up as well. After getting their parent's money, the Graves sibling who went to take the money comes back as Ashley summons the Entity to steal their souls and leaves them catatonic. When the siblings find their parents still alive after sacrificing their souls, Ashley personally kills them. What makes this really awful is their parent's reactions; they're obviously scared of dying, are pleading for mercy and even tried to reason with Andrew to no avail. While it's implied that they're abusive degenerates who are willing to sell their children to have their organs harvested over an insurance scam, their attitude before their deaths makes it seem like they don't mind if they escaped and if you don't view Mrs. Grave's apology as a last-ditch manipulation tactic, they might still have a shred of humanity in them. Ashley on the other hand, only killed them for more money and demonic clairvoyance, with revenge being a secondary factor, making it clear that this girl is a vile monster. The parents are no saints, but they do not deserve this. It doesn't help that in the Decay Route where Andrew may still have some semblances of a conscience left, he was utterly disgusted by this horrible act that he "only" helped set up.
  • The way their corpses are messily disposed of. They dismember their bodies, drain their blood into the sewers, chop their flesh into pieces and ate them, burnt off their face and skin, and throw their bones and skulls into the sea. Their internal organs are put in a blender, ground into juice and spilled into the kitchen sink.
    • If you enter the decay route (a.k.a. have Ashley guard her parents or have Andrew accept the offer from his mom), Ashley's dialogue in the Graves sibling's cannibal dinner is very disturbing. Not only she feels no remorse for it, she gleefully tells Andrew that she feels like eating people makes her the apex predator and she'll also gain the intelligence of the people she consumed.
• Ashley's vision in the Decay Route has... something constantly chasing her, pounding on the door of whatever room she's in and trying to break it down as ominous background music plays. It turns out to be Andrew, who is now fed up of her antics and is going to kill her by chopping her head with a meat cleaver. Depending on situation, he either kills her, she kills him, or they perform a mutual suicide together. This vision alone is enough to terrify this otherwise cheerful and sarcastic serial killer who has no remorse accidentally killing off people, cannibalizing her victims and summoning demons to steal their souls, and the risk of Andrew actually going through his threats in the real world becomes increasingly real after that.
• After the vision in the Decay Route, Andrew becomes outright hostile. When Ashley goes dispose her parent's bones with him, he almost looks like he wants to murder Ashley as brutally as possible and really looks no different from the Ax-Crazy lunatic before him bar the snark. Additionally, every time he snaps at her, the sound of him pounding on the door from the above vision plays. Things are not looking good between them in the future.
• The Cliffhanger of the Burial Route has Andrew notice a "mole" on his right palm and is confused since he doesn't remember it being there before. He dismisses it as unimportant and turns his attention back to his cigarette, not noticing as it turns into an eye-shaped demonic sigil. Whatever this is, it is likely not pleasant.