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- Adorkable: The reclusive Michel, seeing springtime snow for the first time, is heartbreakingly endearing. Morgana has shades of this too, when she's not a malevolent specter.
- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- Does Lord Barnier return Ceren's love? At first, he's adamant that his attachment to her is that of affection for an interesting piece of property, but he halfway returns her Love Confession in the end, telling her that he values her above everything in the world after himself, and makes every effort to ensure she survives his imminent downfall. For all that, he doesn't hesitate to skewer her to get at Jacopo when Ceren, so terrified of losing her beloved, disregards his final order to hide and throws her life away to share his fate.
- For the matter, what truly motivated Ceren to put herself between Barnier and Jacopo? Was she hoping her presence would give Jacopo the shock Barnier needed to turn the tables — that he'd make good on his earlier promise to strike her down if she got in the way of the battle, and use her death to his advantage? Or, per Jacopo's interpretation of her last moments, had she only intervened so that she and Barnier could die together? Either way, she meets her death jubilant and moaning in ecstasy, well pleased with the outcome. Mad Love indeed.
- Awesome Music: Too many, The House of Fata Morgana's soundtrack is one of the game's forte, underlining and sublimating many of the tragic tales and the different eras in which they take place. Hence why it now has its own page.
- Complete Monster: Lord Jean-François Barnier is the one responsible for Morgana's corruption. A wicked tyrant who took power by killing his own family, he entertains himself by torturing and killing slaves, rebels and prostitutes. Meeting the eleven-year-old Morgana while attended by a harem of girls her age, Barnier goes on to cut Morgana to allow himself and other nobles to drink her holy saint's blood, and make her eat human meat, before trying to kill her when her health worsens. Confronted by Jacopo, Barnier skewers Ceren for a shot at killing him and mocks Jacopo over her death.
- Cry for the Devil: The Witch, Morgana, is an incredibly cruel and sadistic being, who enacted a plan to curse 3 men for eternity, ruined the lives of many, led to the death of countless innocent people and tormented Giselle to the point of making her forget who she was entirely in order to make her an instrument of her hatred. Her seething malevolence makes her a frightening and relentless being, responsible for the torment of all the souls imprisoned in the manor. Michel, out to rescue Giselle, ends up discovering just how horrible Morgana's life was and what events turned her into the warped being she is now. By the end of her tale, while her actions remain atrocious, it is made clear that her life was nothing but pain, misery and betrayal, and that she has every reason to hate the 3 men due to the vicious and inhuman treatment they inflicted upon her. But the whole tale is nothing but a tragedy, as Mell's involvement is the result of him being threatened, and one of the men she cursed turns out to be someone she deeply cared about: Jacopo, whom she mistook for Jean-François Barnier, the Lord responsible for the blood sabbaths. Sadly, by the time they reunite, Jacopo is no longer the man she knew, turned into a shadow of his former self, his mind broken by paranoia, solitude and self-loathing (it is also implied in A Requiem For Innocence that the poisoning attempt he survived caused permanent damage and accelerated his madness). Ultimately, Jacopo is responsible for the death of the person he loved the most. This reveal shakes Morgana to the core, leaving her incredulous and sorrowful. Thanks to Michel reaching out to her and repairing her broken soul, Morgana lets go of her hatred and vengeance, and release all the souls trapped in the mansion, but not without making a point that she doesn't forgive the 3 men. They part with a mutual understanding of what they have done to eachother, all wishing to lead better lives once they reincarnate.
- Draco in Leather Pants: An in-universe example exists as Jacopo, who is introduced to the reader as a despicable man in a strained marriage (to say the least). As the story unravels, it becomes clear he's a pure hearted man with good intentions. A Requiem For Innocence delves into this even deeper, and Reincarnation takes it even further, delving into the repercussions of his actions a thousand years later. Naturally, he's a Base-Breaking Character within the fandom regardless of how much the staff try to hammer in his true character, to the point Misaimed Fandom comes into play.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Maria's merciless manipulation of the White-Haired Girl in the third door takes on a heart-wrenching note after The Reveal that the White-Haired Girl is the semi-reincarnation of Morgana, who Maria cared for like a little sister in her previous life.
- LGBT Fanbase: The visual novel is very popular with the LGBT community thanks to Michel, who is considered a very well-done trans male character as well as an intersex character, two groups that are very underrepresented in general, and where good portrayals are hard to come by.
- Magnificent Bitch: Morgana herself was once a saintly girl put through hell for her "miracle blood" before dying alone in a dark tower to become a vengeful witch desiring to curse and torment her offenders. Casting a curse to the three she believed were responsible for her pain, Morgana knew they would reincarnate one day and return to the mansion. Trying to win Michel by promising to curse his abusive family, when he died and left his lover Giselle alone, Morgana instead decided to use Giselle in her plot, making a deal to turn her into an undead maid that would serve her three tormenters when they came and help arrange their tragedies. Ultimately Morgana succeeds, taking advantage of their Fatal Flaws to have them commit a horrible mistake in their next lives to end up in a tragic end, then traps their grieving souls inside the mansion while gaslighting Giselle into believing she was the witch, planning to stay there with her and a reincarnated Michel inside the cursed mansion for all of eternity as their own paradise.
- Squick:
- Jacopo and his romantic feelings for Morgana, given the fact that she was 12 and he 22 when they knew each other. It's treated as embarassing for him but neither Maria nor anyone else seem to think it's a big deal or anything. Jacopo saying he would never do anything to her until she was older doesn't really make it any better. Gratien even says this very word in A Requiem for Innocence when invoking the above point.
- The fact that people believed that ingesting Morgana's blood would heal their illnesses is this, coming from a modern perspective about how bloodborne disease can spread. Knowing that she was wasting away in certainly unsanitary conditions, not to mention the open wounds on her face which were surely vulnerable to that environment, while people all throughout Paris were imbibing her blood as medicine, turns the stomach.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Ginevra, the puppet master behind the rebellion against Lord Barnier, who is Killed Offscreen before the climactic battle's outcome. Her backstory is an interesting one and Jacopo laying bare her motives as quickly as he did could have led to some fascinating interactions had the pair come into power together, especially since Odilon believes it was her desire to rule through her false son.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Jacopo can come across as this, though he does get comeuppance and is rightfully taken to task by the other characters for his actions. He's still treated as the most sympathetic of the three men who wronged Morgana, and his capacity to love her and/or the White-Haired Girl as a redeeming factor. Somewhat glossed over is the fact that in Pig Iron Manor, while it's true that he was being manipulated by Maria, he was still a jealous and controlling domestic abuser who locked up and threatened to kill his wife based on nothing but hearsay without even asking for her side of the story. In his original time, the fact that he developed feelings for Morgana when he was 22 and she was 12 is treated as a minor embarrassment for Jacopo when it comes up at all and is otherwise ignored. His saying that he'd wait to have sex with her until she's 16 doesn't really help, and overall their relationship might strike the player as more creepy than cute, knowing his side of it.
- The Woobie:
- Michel, the real one: Believed to be female at birth, he always admired his brother Didier, found himself attracted to women, and was unable to understand why he had all those complicated feelings. It is not until he hits puberty that he discovers that he is, in fact, intersex: his body is male, but lacks male genitalia. What follows is pure suffering: he is imprisoned in his own home, viciously tortured by his first crush, almost dies from malnutrition and abuse, ignored by his own family, sentenced to death by his own father, and exiled to a mansion far away in which he remains utterly alone and miserable for nearly ten years, with Morgana's unpleasant voice for his sole companion. And when he finally finds someone who loves him and who he loves in return, he is condemned to death by his mother, and the one brother he idolized the most, Didier, led the delegation of knights and killed him in person, betraying the trust and love that Michel had for him, utterly breaking his heart. And death itself didn't release him from his ordeal: with his soul still attached to his dead body, he witnessed his brother nailing him to the cross, his mother calling him a monster and forsaking him, and his corpse slowly decaying before finally be able to pass on. When he finds his way to the mansion, his soul is at first amnesiac, unable to recognize Giselle, and he almost falls to Morgana's ploy. When he reclaims himself, the woman he loves is snatched away by Morgana, and he has to endure Morgana's pain, uncover the whole truth, save the tormented souls trapped inside of the mansion, destroy the purest and selfless being he ever met, survive annihilation by the hand of his brother's soul and wait for his next reincarnation before finally be reunited with Giselle.
- Giselle was an ordinary young woman who took up a job as a servant in the Bolliger estate to provide for her family hoping for a bright future... Then she is repeatedly raped by Antonin, who carves several scars in her skin. This continues on for several weeks until Lydie accuses Giselle of seducing Antonin when there was never any seduction to begin with. Giselle is then banished to the same mansion Michel is staying. After being threatened by a distrustful Michel, Giselle runs away and wakes up in a village and is taken care of by Amedee, and things are looking up for Giselle... Until the village has to begin paying taxes to a lord. Giselle is then falsely accused by Amedee of stealing from the villagers. Giselle then tries to give out Michel's location, but the invasion is stopped by Michel threatening to curse the village, and taking Giselle as a trade to keep the village safe. It is then Giselle breaks down, confessing all that has happened to her to a shocked Michel. Michel accepts and understands Giselle's pain. At last, things are looking up for Giselle as she and Michel slowly fall in love with one another... Until a group of knights is sent by Michel's mother to kill him. Michel sacrifices himself to save Giselle, leaving her alone with Morgana. Not wanting to leave her and Michel's romance there, Giselle decides to stay in the mansion and wait for Michel. Only for Morgana to begin manipulating Giselle into becoming her servant as Giselle slowly begins to loose her memories of Michel. Even when she finally meets up with Michel again, she can't help but cry. And that's not even going into falsely believing the White-haired Girl is Michel, the accidental poisoning of Lord Rhodes, and the hundreds of years she had to spend at the mansion all alone with nothing but Morgana's voice.
