Clockwise from top left: Russell Burrows, Noel Cerquetti, Cybilla Becker, Jillian Littner, Caron, Bomber.
- This is a story about the revenge of a girl who lost her arms and legs to a devil...
Noel The Mortal Fate (被虐のノエル Higyaku no Noeru) is a commercial adventure game developed by Kanawo with RPG Maker and serialized in Game Magazine. After its success in Japan, the game is now available worldwide on Steam in English and Simplified Chinese. There’re 13 seasons in total and all of them are released worldwide with the 13th Season being the final one split into 2 halves.
Noel Cerquetti, a young pianist who lost her arms and legs in a contract, works together with the Great Devil Caron to get her revenge against one man.
This man – dubbed the "pride of the citizens" – is Russell Burrows, the mayor of Laplace.
Why is this girl furiously seeking revenge against such an unrivalled man, loved by the people for bringing peace to Laplace that was once overrun by The Mafia?
While unsteady without her limbs, Noel doesn't give up on her path of revenge, as Caron watches mercilessly, at times risking his own life to support her. With vengeance, the pair begins their chase after Burrows.
Currently, it has a manga adaptation and an official Yonkoma. The game can also be played on mobile.
You can get an English translations from season 1->7 of the game here
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This game provides examples of:
- All of the Other Reindeer:
- Carla died because of this. The people of her town shunned her because they blamed their problems on a star and she thought it was ridiculous, culminating in them accusing her of witchcraft and decapitating her for it. Afterwards she becames the demon Spica and massacres her village as revenge.
- As a child Slug was mistreated in the orphanage because his mother was a murderer, to the point they even scarred his face.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: You simultaneously control both Noel and Caron throughout the game. In later episodes you can play as the allies Noel makes during the series, such as Fugo and Oscar.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: For every wish you make through a contract with devil, you have to pay a matching price. In Noel's case, her arms and legs.
- Big Bad: Mayor Burrows is the one that lured Noel into making a demonic contract for his sake, then dumped her mercilessly when Caron had taken the price from her. After knowing she is alive and planning on destroy him out of revenge, he calls for many forces, including the police, mafia, other demons, even Noel's best friend Jillian to eliminate both her and Caron.
- Breather Episode: Season 3.5 is essentially this. Caron decides to have Noel take a vacation from revenge to rejuvenate for the road ahead. Which essentially surmises into a segment that's very reminiscent of the Persona games.
- Casino Episode: This is basically the premise of Season 6 with the motivation of taking out Russell's money supply in mind. Comes complete with actual gambling minigames like wheels and slots and allows you to play as the other characters with their own substories. Everyone gets to dress up in fancy outfits as a result of the scenario.
- Cutscene Incompetence: Before Caron's boss battle with Fugo, you are told he is too powerful to attack head on, and to win the fight you need to play more strategetically. Yet during the following cutscene, that's exactly what Caron is doing, and it's not going well for him.
- Deal with the Devil: The main root of turmoil of this game.
- Demon of Human Origin: Humans that make contracts with devil are all called 'demons', and have a chance to awaken their "Fallen Angel" form.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: During their first encounter with her, the SOLID-7 squad was completely thrashed by Spica, until Ribelio plead for their lives. Cut to Season 11, when they manage to wound Spica, an absurdly powerful demon, in an act that not even Noel's gang could accomplish, thanks to learning her fighting techniques.
- Disappointing Older Sibling: Fugo looks down on Oscar for being "sickly, frail and soft-hearted". Part of his obsession with being strong and reckless it's an attempt to not be like him at all.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Noel nearly killed Cybilla at the end of Season 2, Caron slapped her to get her back on her senses.
- Heel–Face Turn: Fugo and Oscar defect to Noel's side after they find out that Burrows and Jino arranged the accident that killed his parents in order to force them into contracting with devils. Also Ribellio and Spica in Season 11.
- Exact Words: Burrows wished to "become the mayor with his own strength", using his life as payment. How is he still alive after eight years have passed since he made the contract with Caron? By forcing the citizens into demon contracts so they'll do dirty jobs for him, therefore never using "his own strength".
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Luce Marie is only willing to work for whoever she considers the "strongest" and will abandon them if someone comes along who better fits that description. Such as betraying the OCT in favor of Burrows. She later plans to betray Burrows and seize the Shadow of Laplace for herself, but is arrested before that happens.
- Ironic Echo: In Season 4, Oscar Dressel punches Noel in her stomach and knocks her out. In the season 5, she gives his younger brother Fugo a headbutt right in the same spot.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Cybilla was the one who tricked Noel into making a devil contract and then tried to dispose of her after she served her usefulness. At the end of Season 2, Burrows kills her after she failed to eliminate Noel and Caron.
- Jino killed Oscar and Fugo's parents in an explosion in order to force them into contracting. He gets a taste of his own medicine when he's trapped in a fire and left to die at the end of Season 6. Though it's later revealed he's alive and well.
- Loving a Shadow: Jillian's obsession with Noel falls into this category. She idealizes Noel, to the point she's devastated once she becomes a terrorist and not her "Ideal Noel" anymore. In Season 5, Noel lampshades that Jillian fails to understand how she thinks, what motivates her, or how her time seeking revenge on Burrows has affected her.
- The Mole: In truth Dratton was a spy sent to monitor Burrows and put a stop to his corruption and scapegoat contracts. He was also friends with Eraldo Burrows, Russell's father, and wishes to avenge his death.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Jillian is willing to hurt anyone that dared to corrupt her "Ideal Noel" (see Loving a Shadow above). She maimed Oscar in Season 4 by setting Caesar on him, and threatened to kill Caron and Fugo in Season 5, for "corrupting" Noel.
- Also, Oscar wants to be the one to save and reform Fugo so badly that he's willing to kill Noel and Caron just so they won't. Fortunately he's too soft-hearted to go through it and he pulls a Heel–Face Turn in Season 5.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Fugo often rants about how in this world only the strong survive and the weak ones deserve to die, fueled by his resentment over how "frail" he considers his older brother Oscar to be. He does get better after defecting to Noel and her group though.
- One-Winged Angel: Demon's “Fallen Angel” phenomenon, which can be gained when a demon holds a really strong will toward their wish and gives the demon power of devil. In this form, they sport red pupils, magic square patterns spread over their body, and black aura covered them. Caron compared this phenomenon to "poison".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Fugo's gang members, Python, Toad and Slug are only known by their aliases. Season 9 reveal their names are Lauro, Zoe and Agatha respectively.
- Passing the Torch: At the end of Season 6, Caesar breaks the contract he had with Jillian. This results in his death and her regaining her senses. Come Season 13, when it's revealed he also passed his powers to her.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Caron's hair/fur/feathers grows longer in his Great Devil form.
- Psycho Supporter: Good lord, Jillian. Jillian who chose to discard everyone else and summon the most dangerous devil just so she would never lose Noel. Thankfully, she is redeemed and forgets everything related to the devils.....until Season 13 comes along. At least she stays mellowed out.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Noel's gang becomes this as the series goes on. Aside from the demon Caron, there's a pyromaniac (Fugo), his brother with super resistance (Oscar), a former mafia member (Python) and two trashy thugs (Toad and Slug). Hardly the people you'd expect to be a terrorist group.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Demons' pupils become red when they turn into “Fallen Angel” form. Additionally, both Caron's and Noel's eyes are red.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Dressel bothers. Fugo is brash, determined, impulsive and refuses to show weakness, while Oscar is quiet, stoic, and tactical, but also more tender-hearted.
- Spell My Name With An S: The translations can't decide if the name of the city is LaPlace, Laplace, Laplus or Lhaplus.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Caron after he becomes a full-pledged Great Devil in Season 11.
- After Caesar's death, it's revealed he passed his powers to Jillian.
- Turn Out Like His Father: Invoked. Burrows resents his father because he thinks that people only saw his father in him, liking him because he was respectable and expecting him to be a good politician as well. So he decides to become the mayor of LaPlace and control its citizens whenever and however he feels like. All out of spite towards his father and the city.
- Unwitting Pawn: Oscar is one to Jino, quite obviously to everyone but him. Season 5 reveals he was aware of it all along, he just went along with it because Jino accepted him in the police force and gave him a purpose.
- Yonkoma: The game has an official 4-koma series that is obviously Lighter and Softer than the main story.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Burrows loves to do this.
- At the beginning of Season 1, Noel had to give up her limbs to Caron as the price for killing the president of Stella Stage and became a dying bloody mess on the floor, yearning for help from the only human right beside her. Cybilla, as calm as ever, threw her into the sea.
- Ironically, Cybilla herself received the same treatment in the after credit of Season 2. The gun-loading sound heavily implied that Mayor Burrows shot her because she failed to eliminate Noel and Caron.
- When he couldn’t eliminate Noel and Caron on his part, Burrows captures Fugo instead and throws him in prison.
- Shots Anselmo on the head after he fails to capture Fugo's gang.
- After Jino fails to eliminate Noel's gang in Season 6, Burrows sends an assassin to his hospital room. He survives though.
- Was Once a Man: Spica looks like a humanoid devil even though Caron says this is impossible, as all devils have a monstrous appearance. That's because she used to be human in the past.
