History Characters / BlackCloset

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: The best you can hope for in her route is to be 'cuddle buddies' with her.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A small example; after defeating [[spoiler:Miss Talmage]], Elsa can choose to start working with her, blackmail her for information/money/[[TeacherStudentRomance a relationship]], or resign as student council president to spite her claim that she's NotSoDifferent. Her minions are present, but any who stay through both stages of the boss fight are loyal enough to not dispute her decision. The choice she makes decides what she does with her life in the epilogue.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, she claims that Elsa's time as president has turned her into someone who doesn't mind twisting the rules for her own ends, and states that their hearts are equally black. [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Elsa can resign in response to this]], [[EvilCannotComprehendGood shocking her]] (she goes so far as to yell "I own you!").]]

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: [[WordOfGod Hanako confirmed]] on her forums that, for the first run in the game, [[spoiler: Rowan cannot be the traitor. Given how useful Rowan is in the early game, only players who've beaten the game once can have her as the traitor.]]

* TheFashionista

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A small example; after defeating [[spoiler:Miss Talmage]], Elsa can choose to start working with her, blackmail her for information/money/[[HotForTeacher a relationship]], or resign as student council president to spite her claim that she's NotSoDifferent. Her minions are present, but any who stay through both stages of the boss fight are loyal enough to not dispute her decision. The choice she makes decides what she does with her life in the epilogue.

* HotForStudent: Partially; she expresses no interest in Elsa while she's on the student council, but [[spoiler:blackmailing her after her defeat]] results in them having a relationship when Elsa's gone off to college, and she's apparently pretty devoted.
* HotTeacher: Miss Talmage may not make the best first impression, [[spoiler:and is definitely making things harder than they should be,]] but she's still quite attractive. [[spoiler:If you blackmail her for [[HotForTeacher 'intimate personal instruction']] at the end of the game, you get some pictures that show this off to the fullest.]]

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* DisappearedDad: Rowan's father had no involvement in raising her and her brother Tate, and she has no knowledge about him. In her good route, you and she learn that [[spoiler:Rowan's mother had an affair with Rowan's father, [[YourCheatingHeart who was already married]], and, when she became pregnant with the twins, chose to not get him involved, and raised the two by herself]].

* ExtremeDoormat

* JackOfAllStats: She has no stats below 20, so she makes a useful pinch-hitter when the more specialized members of the group are occupied. She does have a high Observation, but rarely gets to use it independently due to her average Stealth, making using her for ransacking a risky proposition.

* SubmissiveBadass: For a given definition of badass. She's by far the best at sneaking around and observing her surroundings, and [[spoiler:can become Elsa's personal slave without complaint, only requesting her help in getting revenge on a bully. There's even an option on that path to answer her AndThenWhat question by telling her to serve you, which raises her loyalty if it isn't maxed out]].

* AsianAndNerdy

* BrokenBird: Life hasn't exactly been kind to Rowan. Her mother had her and her brother Tate out of wedlock, and they struggled with financial issues. When Rowan got a scholarship to St. Claudine's, it was an opportunity for her to make something of herself, but she was then ostracized by her classmates for not being wealthy, and not having the resources they had.

[[folder:Elsa Gabrielle Jackson]]

* AffectionateNickname: Is called "Captain" by Vonne. In her route, Elsa can either have her continue calling her Captain, just call her Elsa, or, if the player is an OccidentalOtaku, senpai or onee-sama. She draws the line at "Onee-sama," however.
* AntiHero: Elsa will be some variety of this, though what variety depends on her actions. At a minimum, however, she'll be employing her minions to strong-arm other students, cover up scandals and preserve the school's reputation.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Averted, though it's not made immediately obvious. She has a MultipleChoicePast, and can range from taciturn and cruel to warm and affectionate depending on your choices. However, she is always noted to be studious, unflappable, and always collected, verging on TheComicallySerious. Her past relationships with Vonne and Althea are also set in stone, as is the fact that she's black.
* [[GentlemanAndAScholar Gentlewoman And A Scholar]]/{{Wicked Cultured}}: Elsa can be a kind, friendly, romantic girl or a cruel and unfeeling commander depending on player choices, but will always be able to recognize Thaïs's performance at the coffeehouse's Open Night as 'crypto-gothic third-wavism.'

* ScaryShinyGlasses: Elsa does this when she first sits at her desk at the end of the tutorial, along with {{Finger Tenting}}. Potentially [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], since she can be a very kind and caring girl if played as such.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A small example; after defeating [[spoiler: Miss Talmage]], Elsa can choose to start working with her, blackmail her for information/money/[[HotForTeacher a relationship]], or resign as student council president to spite her claim that she's NotSoDifferent. Her minions are present, but any who stay through both stages of the boss fight are loyal enough to not dispute her decision. The choice she makes decides what she does with her life in the epilogue.

[[folder:Althea Daphne Kanellis]]

* BigSisterInstinct: For Thaïs, to the point that she got a reputation for being violent due to how she would act toward anyone who bullied Thaïs. [[spoiler: If Thaïs is the traitor and gets expelled, Althea will lose a decent chunk of loyalty.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: She only joined the student council to satisfy her parents and add her participation to a university application, obviously doesn't care about doing a good job for the most part, [[spoiler: and will flake out and only act every other day on any route but her own unless her loyalty is boosted]].

* ChickMagnet: She is very popular with the ladies at St. Claudine's, largely due to her [[BigSisterInstinct protectiveness of Thais]] being seen as noble, and her flirtatious attitude. She also has a fanclub, and they will not take it well if you choose to romance her.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Althea is used to dating timid freshmen who follow her lead; picking the more assertive conversation options is the best way to impress her. [[spoiler: It's also the easiest way to get her best romance ending, in which you continue dating after high school and go on a cruise together.]]

[[folder:Asami Yvonne "Vonne" Ito]]

* ClingyJealousGirl: Even when not [[spoiler: pushed to {{Yandere}} levels]], Vonne has elements of this. She's been in love with Elsa for years, and will express disapproval of her forming a close relationship with the other girls on their paths, even if you deny romantic intentions. [[spoiler: On her path, if you make her as jealous and paranoid as possible, she'll kick out not only Mallory, who's implied to get a lot of attention from other girls and might have been a point of contention between you two before, but Rowan, who you probably haven't spoken to privately in months.]]
* ClosetGeek: She's incredibly passionate about sci-fi and mysteries, even writing her own role-playing games, but keeps it under wraps because other children bullied her for it when she was younger (it's implied that the teachers advised her to do this when she went to them for help). If she's the traitor, and is expelled for it, her epilogue has her falling in with a gaming club and being a fair bit happier as a result.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Elsa doesn't generally acknowledge her childhood friendship with Vonne, or why it ended, but on her route you can reveal through dialogue choices that [[spoiler: the teachers forced them to stop being friends. the exact reason varies due to the use of MultipleChoicePast.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: To the point where she's already having damaged furniture in the student council room replaced before the other members are even introduced, and is the only one observant enough to notice [[StealthHiBye Rowan]] in the room, including Elsa. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by her being Elsa's {{Forgotten Childhood Friend}} who's been in love with her for years; of course she'd want to make herself as useful to her as possible.]]
* JackOfAllStats: She has no stats below 20, so she makes a useful pinch-hitter when the more specialized members of the group are occupied. She does have a high Observation, but rarely gets to use it independently due to her average Stealth (making using her for ransacking a risky proposition).

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She becomes this if you don't pursue her route. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], as she wasn't able to make any new friends after [[spoiler: Elsa stopped being friends with her when they were children]], and in the epilogue she is unable to form any close relationships with her fellow classmates in her senior year.
* {{Yandere}}: Can become this if Elsa pursues a relationship with her, but acts possessive while refusing to show any affection in public. The achievement for doing so is even called "The Yandere Principle". In her epilogue on this route, it's stated that she goes so far as to disappear from St. Claudine's and track Elsa down at her university, nearly getting her expelled.

[[folder:Rowan Tallula Gray]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone is darker compared to the other girls, apart from Elsa, but her answer to one of dialogue options when she visits you during Martin Luther King day confirms she's not black. If you encourage Rowan to learn more about her heritage and don't offer to help pay for her college, [[spoiler: she'll reveal that her middle name 'Tallulah' is of Choctaw NativeAmerican origin.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Can be turned into this on one variant of her route in which she's made Elsa's servant; in the epilogue, she gains her own subservient girl gang and ruins the lives of anyone who crosses her.
* BrokenBird: Life hasn't exactly been kind to Rowan. Her mother had her and her brother Tate out of wedlock, and they struggled with financial issues. When Rowan got a scholarship to St. Claudine's, it was an opportunity for her to make something of herself. She was then ostracized by her classmates for not being wealthy and not having the resources they had.
* ClosetGeek: In her route she'll reveal that she's very invested in soap operas.
* DisappearedDad: Rowan's father had no involvement in raising her and her brother Tate, and she has no knowledge about him. In her good route, you and her learn that [[spoiler: Rowan's mother had an affair with Rowan's father [[YourCheatingHeart who was already married]] and when she became pregnant with the twins, chose to not get him involved and raised the two by herself.]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: If she is the traitor, [[HeelFaceTurn getting her to confess]] and protecting her will let you keep her on the council. [[WhatTheHellHero If you romance and mistreat her]], [[spoiler: [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment she'll turn traitor again and will resume sabotaging her assignments]]]].
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Rowan reveals in her good route that she has a twin brother named Tate, but they look nothing alike.

* SubmissiveBadass: For a given definition of badass. She's by far the best at sneaking around and observing her surroundings, and [[spoiler: can become Elsa's personal slave without complaint, only requesting her help in getting revenge on a bully. There's even an option on that path to answer her {{And Then What}} question by telling her to serve you, which raises her loyalty if it isn't maxed out]].

[[folder:Thaïs Eulalia Kanellis]]

* AlphaBitch: Mildly subverted; she has the blond hair and attitude, but she's not popular (anymore) and apparently hates the idea of being popular, preferring to rebel.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Thaïs feels this way about Althea, since even girls being jealous of her is due to her being Althea's sister. [[spoiler: If she's the traitor, and her loyalty is raised high enough for her to confess, she'll ask Elsa to use Althea as a scapegoat in exchange for her loyalty.]]

* {{Tsundere}}/DefrostingIceQueen: Puts on airs of not caring about anyone, and retaliates viciously to perceived insults, but can quickly come to respect Elsa's bluntness, and reveal a great deal of vulnerability.

[[folder:Mallory Kendall [=McKay=]]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners/ RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: The best you can hope for in her route is to be 'cuddle buddies' with her.

* {{Ingenue}}: Subverted. For all her friendly, cookie-distributing ways, Mallory isn't quite as innocent as she appears. You can even point this out to Vonne.
* LongDistanceRelationship: Before transferring to the school, she was involved with [[spoiler: a boy named Brian]] and considered herself still taken - at least until the Christmas holiday, when she finds out otherwise.

* NiceGirl: Mallory is as close to this as St. Claudine's students go. She's all sweetness and light in the majority of her conversations, worries about Rowan [[spoiler: if Elsa makes the latter her slave]], and [[spoiler: is the only traitor who won't let the fire start at the Harvest Festival if she was protected and not chosen as Queen without requiring a scapegoat]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: Between her being the shortest council member and her occasionally childish behavior, Mallory doesn't appear to be a freshman in highschool. If you try to watch "Falling Silk" with her on the weekend, the movie theater worker won't allow you since he thinks Mallory is a child, to her frustration.
* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: The real reason [[spoiler:that Mallory was packed off to an all-girls boarding school.]]

[[folder:Miss Naomi Talmage]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect[=/=][[DudeWheresMyReward Reward]]: [[spoiler: After you defeat her, Talmage reveals this as her motivation for why she's been making Elsa's life so difficult. She believed that she deserved a raise for keeping the school afloat, however since she handled the situations quickly and discreetly, her efforts were not recognized and the school board thought she wasn't needed. She started indirectly causing more trouble at St.Claudines to try and get her pay increased since she's paid more for each case the student council solves.]]
* EvilTeacher: [[spoiler: The final case reveals that she's been influencing things behind the scenes to cause more cases because her pay grade increases with the amount of trouble she has to deal with.]]

* HotTeacher: Miss Talmage may not make the best first impression, [[spoiler: and is definitely making things harder than they should be,]] but she's still quite attractive. [[spoiler:If you blackmail her for [[HotForTeacher 'intimate personal instruction']] at the end of the game, you get some pictures that show this off to the fullest.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, she claims that Elsa's time as president has turned her into someone that doesn't mind twisting the rules for her own ends, and states that their hearts are equally black. [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Elsa can resign in response to this]], [[EvilCannotComprehendGood shocking her]] (she goes so far as to yell "I own you!").]]

* AffectionateNickname: Is called "Captain" by Vonne. In her route, Elsa can either have her continue calling her Captain, just call her Elsa, or, if the player is an OccidentalOtaku, senpai. She draws the line at "Onee-sama," however.

* {{HeterosexualLifePartners}}/{{RomanticTwoGirlFriendship}}: The best you can hope for in her route is to be 'cuddle buddies' with her.

* AffectionateNickname: Is called "Captain" by Vonne. In her route Elsa can either have her continue calling her Captain, just calling her Elsa, or if the player is an OccidentalOtaku, senpai. She draws the line at "Onee-sama" however.
* BlankSlate: While certain basic facts about Elsa are set, almost all of her personality throughout the game is determined by the player's dialogue choices.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Averted, though it's not made immediately obvious. She may have a MultipleChoicePast and can range from taciturn and cruel to warm and affectionate depending on your choices; however she is also noted to be studious, unflappable and always collected, verging on TheComicallySerious. Her past relationships with Vonne and Althea are also set in stone, as is the fact that she's black.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A small example - after defeating [[spoiler: Miss Talmage]], Elsa can choose to start working with them, blackmail them for information/money/[[HotForTeacher a relationship]], or resign as student council president to spite their claim that she's NotSoDifferent (her minions are present, but any who stay through both stages of the boss fight are loyal enough to not dispute her decision). The choice she makes decides what she does with her life in the epilogue.

* BigSisterInstinct: For Thaïs, to the point that she got a reputation for being violent due to how she would act toward anyone who bullied her.
* BrilliantButLazy: She only joined the student council to satisfy her parents and add her participation to a university application, obviously doesn't care about doing a good job for the most part [[spoiler: and will flake out and only act every other day on any route but her own unless her loyalty is boosted]].

* ChickMagnet: She is very popular with the ladies at St. Claudine's, largely due to her [[BigSisterInstinct protectiveness of Thais]] being seen as noble and her flirtatious attitude. She also has a fanclub and they will not take it well if you choose to romance Athea.
* HiddenDepths: If romanced, she expresses the desire to leave St. Claudine's and tackle things that are actually challenging for her. She also wants to become a chef, something that she has to keep secret as it's considered 'beneath' a woman of her social standing.
%%* ReallyGetsAround
* TheSocialExpert: Her Social stat is equal to Mallory's, but unlike the latter, she has no problem intimidating people. This gives her the broadest range of social options for any character.
* TattooAsCharacterType: In her route, she decides to get a chakram tattooed on her upper back because it symbolizes a warrior. She also considers a labrys (for the same reason) and a triangle with the feminine symbol inside (referencing ''The Delta of Venus'', an erotic book/movie).

* ClingyJealousGirl: Even when not [[spoiler: pushed to {{Yandere}} levels]], Vonne has elements of this. She's been in love with you for years and will express disapproval of your forming a close relationship with the other girls on their paths, even if you deny romantic intentions. [[spoiler: On her path, if you make her as jealous and paranoid as possible, she'll kick out not only Mallory, who's implied to get a lot of attention from other girls and might have been a point of contention between you two before, but Rowan, whom you probably haven't spoken to privately in months.]]
* ClosetGeek: She's incredibly passionate about sci-fi and mysteries, even writing her own role-playing games, but keeps it under wraps because other children bullied her for it when she was younger, and it's implied that the teachers advised her to do this when she went to them for help. If she's the traitor and expelled for it, her epilogue has her falling in with a gaming club and being a fair bit happier as a result.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Elsa doesn't generally acknowledge her childhood friendship with Vonne or why it ended, but on her route you can reveal through dialogue choices that [[spoiler: the teachers forced them to stop being friends; the exact reason varies due to the use of MultipleChoicePast]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: To the point where she's already having damaged furniture in the student council room replaced before the other members are even introduced, and being the only one observant enough to notice [[StealthHiBye Rowan]] in the room, including Elsa. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by her being Elsa's {{Forgotten Childhood Friend}} while also having loved her for years; of course she'd want to make herself as useful to her as possible.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her first name is actually Azami. 'Vonne' came about as a result of not being able to pronounce her middle name, Yvonne.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She is becomes this if you don't pursue her route. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as she wasn't able to make any new friends after [[spoiler: Elsa stopped being friends with her when they were children]] and in the epilogue she is unable to form any close relationships with her fellow classmates in her senior year.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin tone is darker compared to the other girls execpt Elsa, but her answer to one of dialogue options when she visits you during Martin Luther King day confirms she's not black. If you encourage Rowan to learn more about her heritage and not offer to help pay for her college [[spoiler: she'll reveal that her middle name Tallulah is of Choctaw NativeAmerican origin.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Can be turned into this on the route where she's made Elsa's servant; in the epilogue, she gains her own subservient girl gang and ruins the lives of anyone who crosses her.
* BrokenBird: Life hasn't exactly been kind to Rowan. Her mother had her and Tate out of wedlock, and they struggled with financial issues. When Rowan got a scholarship to St. Claudine's, it was an opportunity for her to make something of herself. She was then ostracized by her classmates for not being wealthy and not having the resources they had.
* DisappearedDad: Rowan's father had no involvement in raising her and her brother Tate and she has no knowledge about him. In her good route, you and her learn that [[spoiler: Rowan's mother had an affair with Rowan's father [[YourCheatingHeart who was already married]] and when she became pregnant with the twins, chose to not get him involved and raised the two by herself.]]

* ScholarshipStudent
* StealthHiBye: Frequently unnoticed by others until she speaks up. Again, see her Stealth stat.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: A rare example between female characters. If Elsa dates Althea, she'll leave the council and state this as her reason for siccing Althea's fanclub on her.
* {{Tsundere}}/DefrostingIceQueen: Puts on airs of not caring about anyone and retaliates viciously to perceived insults, but can quickly come to respect Elsa's bluntness and reveal a great deal of vulnerability.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Between her harsh expressions, overdone makeup and excellent performing skill, Thaïs does not look like she's tied for the youngest member of the council.

%%* HeterosexualLifePartners/TwoGirlRomaticFriendship

* IfItsYouItsOkay: ''Almost''. Flirting with her and choosing to be 'cuddle buddies' gets you the "Tempt a Straight Girl" achievement; while she doesn't pursue a romantic relationship with Elsa, she does tell her at graduation that if she ''did'' ever date a girl, she'd want someone like her.

* LongDistanceRelationship: Before transferring to the school, she was involved with [[spoiler: a boy named Brian]] and considered herself still taken - at least, until the Christmas holiday, when she finds out otherwise.

* NiceGirl: Mallory is as close to this as St. Claudine's students go. She's all sweetness and light in the majority of her conversations, worries about Rowan [[spoiler: if Elsa makes the latter her slave]] and [[spoiler: is the only traitor who won't let the fire start at the Harvest Festival if she was protected and not chosen as Queen without requiring a scapegoat]].

* HotForStudent: Partially; she expresses no interest in Elsa while she's on the student council, but [[spoiler:blackmailing her after her defeat]] results in them having a relationship when she's gone off to college, and she's apparently pretty devoted.
* HotTeacher: Miss Talmage may not make the best first impression [[spoiler: and is definitely making things harder than they should be,]] but she's still quite attractive. [[spoiler:If you blackmail her for [[HotForTeacher 'intimate personal instruction']] at the end of the game, you get some pictures that show this off to the fullest.]]
* NotSoDifferent: At the end of the game, she claims that Elsa's time as president has turned her into someone that doesn't mind twisting the rules for her own ends, and states that their hearts are equally black. [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Elsa can resign in response to this]], [[EvilCannotComprehendGood shocking her]] (she goes so far as to yell "I own you!").

[[folder:Mallory Kendall McKay]]

* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Elsa as "Captain". In her route Elsa can either have her continue calling her Captain, just calling her Elsa, or if the player is an OccidentalOtaku, senpai. She draws the line at "Onee-sama" however.

%%* LongDistanceRelationship: She is revealed to be one with [[spoiler: a boy named Brian

* OlderThanTheyLook: Between her being the shortest council member and her occasionally childish behavior, Mallory doesn't appear to be a freshman in highschool. If you try to watch "Falling Silk" with her on the weekend, the movie theater worker won't allow you since he thinks Mallory is a child, to her frustrated.

* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Elsa as "Captain" throughout the game and her reason(at first) is that Captain sounds better. In her route,
%%* AsianAndNerdy:

* BrilliantButLazy: She only joined the student council to satisfy her parents and add her participation to a university application, obviously doesn't care about doing a good job for the most part [[spoiler: and will flake out and only act every other day on any route but her own unless her loyalty is boosted]]. She's also remarkably talented at extracting information from other students, as her two highest stats are Social and Intimidation, which are the key stats for the Harass action.

* TheBully: She used to be.

* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Elsa as "Captain" throughout the game and in the beginning if you ask her why or tell her to call you by your correct title she'll simply say that "Captain" sounds better. If you choose her route though,

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She is becomes this if you don't pursue her route. This is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] since she was unable to make any new friends after [[spoiler: Elsa stopped being friends with her]] when they were children and in the epilogue she is unable to form any close relationships with her fellow classmates in her senior year.