History Characters / MadFather

* HateSink: While she isn't this in the original game, she becomes this in the 2020 remake where it is revealed that she never loved Aya or Alfred and only used them so the Drevis murders would continue, and unlike Aya or Alfred Monika no longer has any sympathetic qualities. Though as a spirit, she does seem to have gained some actual affection for Aya.

* NightmareFace: The 2016 remake gives her this by having her pupils gone and a gaping mouth and the 2020 remake gives her BlackEyes to make it look like an EyelessFace, making her agonizing death all the more apparent.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* DrivenToSuicide: She is implied to have hanged herself (the room where Monika talks about her has a noose and fallen-over chair) as a result of the harassment the rest of the Drevis family gave her for opposing their LivingDollCollector tradition… assuming that the family didn’t [[NeverSuicide murder her and frame her death as a suicide.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: She is implied to have hanged herself (the room where Monika talks about her has a noose and fallen-over chair) as a result of the harassment the rest of the Drevis family gave her for opposing their LivingDollCollector tradition… assuming that the family didn’t [[NeverSucide murder her and frame her death as a suicide.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: She is implied to have hanged herself (the room where Monika talks about her has a noose and fallen-over chair) as a result of the harassment the rest of the Drevis family gave her for opposing their LivingDollCollector tradition.

* HereWeGoAgain: In Blood Mode, she ends up having her soul skirting between life and death by reliving the same night that happens in the game after [[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsively]] [[Literature/SnowWhite eating a colorful apple given to her by an old lady in a black hood]]. Orge even states that if she dies here, her body will die in the physical world. After getting her bearings together, she traverses through the recreation of the night again, but this time, however, she approaches this with a more [[RuleOfEmpathy empathetic]], OlderAndWiser outlook.

* UnnamedParent: Or grandparent, in this case. Monika only refers to her as Grandfather in her diary.

* InTheBlood: If the player looks in Aya's drawers, they'll find dead animals. Later, they'll read excerpts of her father's diary and find out that he did the same thing before later killing his mother and other people. In the True Ending, we also see Aya has become a doctor, like her father.

* AllThereInTheManual: Her name is never stated in-game.

* DiesWideOpen: How she is killed in the bad ending her father pose her body with [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mad-father/images/5/57/Aya_badend.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/455?cb=20150106161415 open eyes]] after he turn her into a doll.

* DiesWideOpen: How she is killed in the bad ending her father pose her body with [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mad-father/images/5/57/Aya_badend.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/455?cb=20150106161415open eyes]] after he turn her into a doll.

* LadyMacbeth: It is implied and confirmed in Blood Mode that she was the one who influenced Alfred into doing his experiments.

** The 2020 remake implies she loved Alfred for how useful he was to her. Turns out Monika's grandfather tried to convince her to experiment on people, but her grandmother opposed to it. Wanting to please both of them, she's delighted when she meets Alfred. Because if she provides the equipment for his experiments without personally involving herself on it, she'll be following her grandfather's will by proxy.

* LadyMacbeth: It is implied that she pushed Alfred to do his experiments.
* MamaBear: Upon discovering her husband's plans to turn their own daughter into a doll, she calls him out on his insanity and declares that she's running away and taking Aya with her. Even in death, she still seeks to protect her daughter from her husband's plans. Subverted however, as she isn’t protecting her out of love, but so that she can continue the murders.

** The dead butler in the If Scenario accuses Monika of being this, as she provided her house to Alfred in order to assist him with his killings, and encouraged Aya's growing psychotic tendencies. He also says she spared Maria because she already knew she will protect Aya after the doctor died and she sweet talked Robin into doing what she wanted.

* StockholmSyndrome: According to the prequel to ''Mad Father'', Monika fell in love with Alfred after he refused to kill her. Averted, as the 2020 Remake shows that she only sees him as a way to preserve the Drevis legacy.

* WomanScorned: Subverted. At first it seems she's returned from the dead to get revenge on her husband for cheating on her with Maria, but it turns out to be nothing to do with that. She just wants him to herself, but does not care for revenge.

* DespairEventHorizon: As the 2020 remake shows further, he hit this after murdering his mother in a fit of rage, and wander through life aimlessly as a SerialKiller before meeting Monika for the first time and finding purpose as a dollmaker and a father.

* HereWeGoAgain: In Blood Mode, she ends up having soul skirting between life and death by reliving the same night that happens in the game after [[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsively]] [[Literature/SnowWhite eating a colorful apple given to her by an old lady in a black hood]]. Orge even states that if she dies here, her body will die in the physical world. After getting her bearings together, she traverses through the night again, but this time, however, she approaches this with a more [[RuleOfEmpathy empathetic]], OlderAndWiser outlook.

* ImportantHaircut: As an adult, she wears her hair shoulder-lengthed, and proves to be a very empathetic person despite being a SerialKiller like her father.

* RapunzelHair: Aya's hair reaches her waist at least, and her clone's hair is even longer. In the epilogue, she has an ImportantHaircut to show how far she matured as an adult by keeping it shoulder-length.

* KarmaHoudini: In the True End, she goes on to continue her father's work, and is not shown getting any comeuppance for it. However, Blood Mode has her be tormented by a nightmare of Jean, her latest victim, and it is hinted that a karmic fate is just around the corner.

* HereWeGoAgain: In Blood Mode, she ends up reliving the same night that happens in the game after [[DidntThinkThisThrough impulsively]] eating a colorful apple given to her by a stranger in a black hood. This time, however, she approaches this with a more empathetic, OlderAndWiser outlook.

* DespairEventHorizon: It's implied he hit this after murdering his mother in a fit of rage, and aimlessly living by his addiction to killing people as a SerialKiller before meeting Monika for the first time.

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* BerserkButton: She has one regarding the stealing of her mother's things. At first she's terrified of Ines, one of the game's reawakened dead, but the moment she realizes Ines has stolen her mother's perfume, all of Aya's fear for her instantly disappears and she jumps at her to reclaim it.

* HereWeGoAgain: In Blood Mode, she ends up reliving the same night that happens in the game after impulsively eating an apple given to her by a person in a black hood. This time, however, she approaches this with an OlderAndWiser outlook.

* LackOfEmpathy: She only cares for her parents and herself. This isn't necessarily a villainous trait, but rather a sign of her emotional immaturity. Part of the game is about her learning to understand the feelings of others, such as her father's victims or Maria's devotion to him. By Blood Mode, she's far from being unempathetic and has begun to feel for everyone, even her victims.

* {{Determinator}}: She’s a little girl who’s willing to venture through a zombie-filled mansion to save her father. At one point, she collapses from exhaustion, but is still thinking about trying to reach her father.

* FaceHeelTurn: Though already unstable, the True End has her outright become a MadScientist like her father. However, in the 2016 remake, there is a extra scene in the credits showing Aya hugging a doll and saying ''"We promised, so I can't ever forget."'' The 2020 remake reveals she's talking about Robin, and not what she does to people.

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Aya is as dangerously unstable as her other family members and gains a mini chainsaw. Although she doesn't use it on anyone, she does swing it very causally.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: All she wanted was a family and eagerly accepts Alfred's offer to go to his household. Poor Ines thought she was going to be adopted and even bonded with baby Aya, treating her as a little sister. Then Alfred takes her to his basement....

* StreetUrchin: Was this before Alfred took her into the Drevis household. She thought she was going to be adopted, while in fact he was going to experiment on her.

* EvilMentor: He taught Monika everything she knows about the Drevis family tradition of turning people into dolls, and groomed her into becoming his successor.

A member of the Drevis family who is said by Monika to have hanged herself after opposing the Drevis family.

* HeelRealization: In the end of Blood Mode, she ultimately comes to realize why her father wanted to turn her into a doll (to keep her from becoming like him) and that she was an UnwittingPawn to Monika who went ahead and turned into a SerialKiller just like her parents. She tells Maria that she has resigned herself to what she predicts is a karmic fate coming for her soon, and only asks Maria to be there with her when that happens.
* HollywoodGenetics: Both of her parents have brown hair, yet Aya has black hair despite brown hair being dominant.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In the True ending, as she has followed in her father's footsteps and she waits for ill people to come to her for treatment. Unlike her father however, she treats them like people instead of as mere "parts", and her victims are anesthetized before she kills them, relieving them of the suffering her father would've inflicted on them.
* LackOfEmpathy: She only cares for her parents and herself. This isn't necessarily a villainous trait, but rather a sign of her emotional immaturity. Part of the game is about her learning to understand the feelings of others, such as her father's victims or Maria's devotion to him. By Blood Mode, she has begun to feel for everyone, even her victims.

* MadScientist: Becomes one in the True End, concerting people into dolls just like her father did.

* NomDeMom: The 2020 remake reveals Drevis is her mother's surname, Alfed having took it when he married Monika. Justified, as her mother is the owner of a large company while Alfred was a peasant at best.

* RapunzelHair: Aya's hair reaches her waist at least, and her clone's hair is even longer.

* HiddenDepths: Despite his willingness to kill people in many gruesome ways to make them into dolls and preserve their beauty, he isn't entirely devoided of empathy (his genuine love for Aya aside) by recognizing the pain he puts people through and seeing how bad his past habit of killing animals for fun.

* ScaryShinyGlasses: His default expression, as his glasses completely cover his eyes. It gets subverted if Monika is banished, the left lense gets broken and exposes his left eye.

* VillainProtagonist: Turns out she is just as vicious and insane as the rest of her family, as she has killed animals in the past, and eventually goes on to turn people into dolls like her father did.
* WalkingSpoiler: It is difficult to discuss about her without revealing that she is a VillainProtagonist who goes on to become a MadScientist like her father.

Aya's father, a brilliant but unhinged scientist. Ever since he was a boy, he was obsessed with eternal beauty, and sought a way to make beauty last forever, even after death. His solution was to turn people into living dolls. He gets kidnapped by the spirit his wife, forcing Aya to save him.

* CreepyChild: His diary entries says he was this. He even started killing animals and eventually moved onto killing people, [[AntagonisticOffspring starting with his mother]]. Seeing her beautiful dead face kickstarted his obsession of trying to preserve their beauty after death and led him to successfully turn people into dolls.

* DaddysGirl: Despite the awful things her father has done, Aya still wants to save him when the curse appears. Even years after and his true colors revealed, she still loves him as her father but still wishes to achieve her own happiness.

* MamaBear: Upon discovering her husband's plans to turn their own daughter into a doll, she calls him out on his insanity and declares that she's running away and taking Aya with her. Even in death, she still seeks to protect her daughter from her husband's plans.
** Subverted however as she isn’t protecting her out of love but so that she can continue the murders.
* ManipulativeBitch: The dead butler in the If Scenario accuses Monika of being this, as she provided her house to Alfred in order to assist him with his killings, and encouraged Aya's growing psychotic tendencies. He also says she spared Maria because she already knew she will protect Aya after the doctor died and she sweet talked Robin into doing what she wanted.

* CameBackWrong: A possible explanation for her creepy behaviour. Either that or she was driven mad by the Doctor's experiments before she died.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the Blood Mode, adult Aya is shown to be very mature and empathetic, showing that her experiences in the mansion did had a positive effect on her. She's very protective of Maria and speaks of Robin fondly (when back in their youth, she couldn't even bother to remember him, see ButForMeItWasTuesday above).

* KarmaHoudini: In the True End, she goes on to continue her father's work, and is not shown getting any comeuppance for it.

* LackOfEmpathy: She only cares for her parents and herself. This isn't necessarily a villainous trait, but rather a sign of her emotional immaturity. Part of the game is about her learning to understand the feelings of others, such as her father's victims or Maria's devotion to him.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: The true ending shows she's become a doctor like her father. Also said by her father if the player reads his diary and finds out Aya's been killing animals and stuffing them in her drawers just like him: ''"Just like my old self... Killing solely out of interest. Then it must run in the family..."''

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: How older!Aya responds to her father in the Blood Mode, citing that not a day goes by that she doesn't miss Alfred or Monika. It gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when she's reminded that [[MoralityPet Maria]] would be left behind alone.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Upon picking up a chainsaw, her first reaction is happy nostalgia. Also, she's oddly unbothered by the large number of dead animals hidden in the house, or with setting a giant monster on fire, or with her father's line of work in general. If the player continues reading Alfred's diary, it's revealed that Aya is the reason behind the dead animals and that she's slowly becoming more and more like Alfred when he was a child.
** It's also hinted that Aya herself killed the collection of rabbits with her little chainsaw (possibly accidentally however as Aya didn’t seem to be aware that her father gave her a new rabbit every time), along with the dead animals in her room and that her father really isn't happy with that which is why he plans to turn her into a doll. The 2020 remake reveals that Alfred ''tried'' for years to teach her that killing animals for fun was wrong, only for him to realize Aya was becoming unhinged due to her mother's manipulations. So he decides to turn her into a doll as a last resort.
* UnwittingPawn: To Monika.

** In the new Blood mode, she gets a form of this from the patient who visited her in the epilogue. Now a ghost, she reminds Aya that she wanted to be a doctor like her and help others. Before she becomes an eyeless ghost and Aya is forced into a new room. Aya's face at least gives her a slight OhCrap moment, if not a MyGodWhatHaveIDone.

* TheBadGuyWins: If the player gets the second bad ending, he succeeds in his twisted mission to turn Aya into a doll. He gets exactly what he wanted and gets away with it scot-free.

* TheBadGuyWins: In the first bad end, she is allowed by Aya to keep Alfred to herself. Even in the True End, though dead for real, she got what she wanted- for her daughter to continue her family honored traditions of carnage.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely loves Alfred, seeking to pull him into the Other World to make him hers forever. She also cares for her daughter Aya, trying to save her from Alfred. Robin says that, even if Monika wasn't a good person in the end, that doesn't make her love for Aya any less real.
** Completely Subverted in the 2020 Remake where it is revealed she never cared about Alfred or Aya, only that the carnage continues.

* HateSink: While she isn’t this in the original game she becomes this in the 2020 remake where it is revealed that she never loved Aya or Alfred and only used them so the Drevis murders would continue and unlike Aya or Alfred Monika no longer has any sympathetic qualities.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: A subsequent playthrough implies that Monika loved the horrifying experiments Alfred carried out. She also told Aya a rather disturbing story in one of the flashbacks.

* HateSink: While she isn’t this in the original game she becomes this in the 2020 remake where it is revealed that she never loved Aya or Alfred and only used them so the Drevis murders would continue and unlike Aya or Alfred Monika no longer has any sympathies qualities.

* TheBadGuyWins: In the True End, she escapes the mansion and becomes a doctor that kills people. However, the 2020 remake clarifies that she doesn't have the same lackofempathy she had as a child and she doesn't enjoy it like before.