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* TorturedMonster: Comes together with the Maw being spawned from the psyche Liliane, a rape victim. It explicitly needs a host to survive and doesn't ''enjoy'' its existence.

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* TorturedMonster: Comes together with the Maw being spawned from the psyche Liliane, Lilith, a rape victim. It explicitly needs a host to survive and doesn't ''enjoy'' its existence.
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* TorturedMonster: Comes together with the Maw being spawned from the psyche Liliane, a rape victim. It explicitly needs a host to survive and doesn't ''enjoy'' its existence.
--> "No more hunger. No more cold. No more shame. Never again. Let them look. Let them know. Let them see. Let them feel... '''[[SuddenlyShouting OUR PAIN]]'''!"
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: For all of Henry's ruthlessness he does have a son he genuinely loves.]]
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Evidence in-game for that section suggests the mother deliberately revealed Rose and her family to get her husband executed. The Home Army doesn't seem to be mentioned in the flashback, but I kept it vague in case I'm wrong.


* DarkAndTroubledPast: Richard didn't have the best childhood. [[spoiler:His father died presumably during World War II. His mother remarried, but the man was abusive to both Richard and his mother. Eventually, his mother tells the Home Army - the Polish LaResistance - that the man was collaborating with Nazis (it's unclear whether that actually happened), and they execute him. However, Rose, Richard's childhood sweetheart, seems to get caught in the crossfire and ends up being killed.]]

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Richard didn't have the best childhood. [[spoiler:His father died presumably during World War II. His mother remarried, but the man was abusive to both Richard and his mother. Eventually, his mother tells exploits the Home Army - the Polish LaResistance - fact that the man she was collaborating with Nazis (it's unclear whether that actually happened), helping house a Jewish family to get her husband framed and they execute him. However, Rose, executed as a "collaborator". As a result, however, Richard's childhood sweetheart, seems to get caught in the crossfire Jewish sweetheart Rose and ends up being killed.her family were exposed and executed as well.]]
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Jerk With A Heartof Jerk is not "he's a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold but here are his jerk qualities", it is a subversion of Jerk With A Heart Of Gold.


* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He still enables Thomas' worst impulses, and he's vicious against people he despises, even as they beg him for help.

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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The story leaves it ambiguous on whether Marianne shoots Lily or herself to contain the Maw.]]

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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The story leaves it ambiguous on whether Marianne shoots Lily or herself to contain Lily, the Maw.Maw, or herself.]]


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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The game leaves it up the air whether the Maw is shot by Marianne or she shoots herself or Lily.]]


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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Her fate at the end of the story, like Marianne’s and the Maw’s, is left unknown and up to interpretation.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The story leaves it ambiguous on whether Marianne shoots Lily or herself to contain the Maw.]]
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Dewicked trope
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Dewicked trope


* AdultFear: He's heavily implied to be [[spoiler:a child predator.]]
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* MindRape: He can destroy souls in the Spirit World, rendering their matirial forms catatonic.

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* MindRape: He can destroy souls in the Spirit World, rendering their matirial material forms catatonic.
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* AndIMustScream: Wgen he lost to the Hound, he spent the entire tine from then until the Hound's exorcism trapped in "Henry's fucked up world," which seems to be roughly 29 years.

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* AndIMustScream: Wgen When he lost to the Hound, he spent the entire tine time from then until the Hound's exorcism trapped in "Henry's fucked up world," which seems to be roughly 29 years.
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* MoralityPet: One of two for [[spoiler:Spirit Thomas]], as despite the person's jerk tendencies, he genuinely cares about her and is nothing but kind when speaking with her.


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* TookALevelInKindness: It is unclear if it is from his time in the Hound's world or from talking to [[MoralityPet Marianne]], but he is much more calm and kind in the present day than he is in flashback sequences.


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* MoralityPet: One of two for [[spoiler:Spirit Thomas]], as despite the person's jerk tendencies, he genuinely cares about her.
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* NarratorAllAlong: Played with. He isn't the narrator himself, but he is the person to whom Marianne is explaining the vast majority of the story in the framing story.

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