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* MissingMom: We don't know anything about Viola's mother; [[spoiler:Ellen in Viola's body]] describes Viola and her father as a 'close family of two'.
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* MissingMom: We don't know anything about Viola's mother; [[spoiler:Ellen in Viola's body]] describes Viola and her father as mother died when she was a 'close family of two'. child.
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-->[[spoiler: ''""Good luck with the rest, Ellen. My faithful witch."'']]
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* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil: More or less the black cat's M.O. He struck up one with Ellen; magical powers, and a home, in exchange for souls. Thankfully, the cat seems to be loyal enough; so long as Ellen holds up her end of the bargain, he upholds his. This even includes ''bringing her back to life'' countless times during the course of the game.]]
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* [[spoiler: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Possibly; his behavior in game and in the side-story shows that he ''does'' seem to hold some genuine affection for Ellen; exactly how much though, is unknown.]]
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A supporting character in the game, the Black Cat is a sarcastic talking cat that accompanies Viola throughout the duration of the game, functioning as her save point. [[spoiler: Not truly a cat, the Black Cat is a formless demon that encountered Ellen when she was a young child. After she murdered her parents, he ate their souls, and, in gratitude for her saving him from starving to death, he gave her the titular Witch's House, along with her magical powers. In exchange for this, she was to kill countless children and feed their souls to the cat. True to his contract, he will constantly revive 'Viola', i.e. Ellen, when she is killed in the house, until their contract is up. Despite this, he seems genuinely concerned for Ellen's wellbeing, and may truly be the closest thing she has to a friend.]]
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* [[spoiler: ParentalSubstitute: After Ellen killed her parents, the Black Cat took her in, gave her powers, and also taught her things like how to read and write.]]
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* [[spoiler: ParentalSubstitute: After Ellen killed her parents, the Black Cat took her in, gave her powers, and also taught her things like how to read and write.]]
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* [[spoiler: BlondesAreEvil: Initially purple-haired, switching to Viola's body cements her status as this.]]
**[[spoiler: DumbBlonde: Quite a lot of the choices you make in the game that can get you killed are obviously stupid; drinking poison from a table is one example.]]
**[[spoiler: DumbBlonde: Quite a lot of the choices you make in the game that can get you killed are obviously stupid; drinking poison from a table is one example.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: Besides the small portions in the Witch's Diary, the majority of her backstory is revealed through [http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/65803385327/the-witchs-house-the-diary-of-ellen-chapter-1-back The Witch’s House: The Diary of Ellen], and it is ''depressing''.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Besides the small portions in the Witch's Diary, the majority of her backstory is revealed through [http://vgperson.[[http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/65803385327/the-witchs-house-the-diary-of-ellen-chapter-1-back The Witch’s House: The Diary of Ellen], Ellen]], and it is ''depressing''.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Besides the small portions in the Witch's Diary, the majority of her backstory is revealed through [http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/65803385327/the-witchs-house-the-diary-of-ellen-chapter-1-back The Witch’s House: The Diary of Ellen], and it is ''depressing''.
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:[[spoiler: This all comes to a head in the actual game; the reason Ellen went so far out of her way to steal Viola's body isn't simply because she needed a body that didn't hurt: she wanted Viola's life. Knowing Viola had a loving father (precisely what she never had), she wanted to take Viola's place. And she succeeded.]]
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:[[spoiler: This all comes to a head in the actual game; the reason Ellen went so far out of her way to steal Viola's body isn't simply because she needed a body that didn't hurt: she wanted Viola's life. Knowing Viola had a loving father (precisely what she never had), she wanted to take Viola's place. And she succeeded.]]
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* ParentalNeglect: A downright ''depressing'' example. Ellen's father ignored Ellen's very existence; downright disregarding her and only paying attention to her mother. Ellen's mother struggled to give her attention but couldn't cope entirely with having a terminally ill daughter, and tried to leave her family for a rich man. Ellen, in a furious rage, killed them both. It's hard not to see it as a good thing.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: ''Desperately''. All Ellen wanted, as a child, was the love of her parents, and the love of friends. Having received neither, she killed her parents and turned to magic.
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-->''If you won’t love me, I don’t need you. If you’re loved, but you won’t accept it, I’ll never forgive you.''
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* BigBad: Quite obviously, as the titular witch of the game. Ellen is the witch you see throughout the entirety of the game, and the final enemy you have to flee from the in the end. [[spoiler: Only it's really Viola...]]
* [[spoiler: TheDragon: She essentially fulfills this role to the Demon; everything she does and can do is because of him, and he calls her "My faithful witch" in the Secret Ending.]]
* [[spoiler: TheDragon: She essentially fulfills this role to the Demon; everything she does and can do is because of him, and he calls her "My faithful witch" in the Secret Ending.]]
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The titular witch, and the antagonist of the game. Ellen lives in a house on the edge of the forest, surrounding by dark legends of kidnapping the children who go into the forest. Having lived alone for centuries, due to being very ill and having killed her own parents in retribution for neglecting her, Ellen befriended Viola, a young girl who came to play with her; effectively getting her first friend.
Ellen appears as the antagonist in the game, trapping Viola in her house and using her powerful magic to warp the house in a way that it becomes a dangerous threat. Throughout the game, she appears in cryptic moments, and never says a word before Viola encounters her in the last stretch of the game; ultimately, she is killed by Viola's father, in the man's attempt to protect his daughter.
[[spoiler: In actuality, the "Viola" we play as is "Ellen", the witch; prior to the beginning of the game, Ellen tricked Viola into swapping bodies with her 'just for a day'; Ellen, however, quickly goes back on her word, cutting off Viola's legs, gouging out her eyes, and pouring burning "medicine" down her throat after the transfer, leaving Viola to die in a sick body and damaged body. The player character is truly Ellen in Viola's body, and the game centers around her adventure throughout her own home.]]
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* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist: Ellen is this to a ''T'' and you will ''never see it coming'']].
Ellen appears as the antagonist in the game, trapping Viola in her house and using her powerful magic to warp the house in a way that it becomes a dangerous threat. Throughout the game, she appears in cryptic moments, and never says a word before Viola encounters her in the last stretch of the game; ultimately, she is killed by Viola's father, in the man's attempt to protect his daughter.
[[spoiler: In actuality, the "Viola" we play as is "Ellen", the witch; prior to the beginning of the game, Ellen tricked Viola into swapping bodies with her 'just for a day'; Ellen, however, quickly goes back on her word, cutting off Viola's legs, gouging out her eyes, and pouring burning "medicine" down her throat after the transfer, leaving Viola to die in a sick body and damaged body. The player character is truly Ellen in Viola's body, and the game centers around her adventure throughout her own home.]]
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* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist: Ellen is this to a ''T'' and you will ''never see it coming'']].
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** AndIMustScream: One of the possible deaths involve being trapped in a painting by the Mona-Lisa.
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** SuperDrowningSkills: Another possible method of death is via drowning; its also a very well deserved death, as the tadpoles (who were the children of the frog Viola fed to the snake to save your own skin) do it as revenge against Viola.
** TheManyDeathsOfYou: Viola can die in so many ways, [[DragonBall Krillin]] is starting to get jealous.
** TheWallsAreClosingIn: The first death encountered; stepping on a pool of blood in the center of the first room ''crushes'' Viola between two walls.
** TheManyDeathsOfYou: Viola can die in so many ways, [[DragonBall Krillin]] is starting to get jealous.
** TheWallsAreClosingIn: The first death encountered; stepping on a pool of blood in the center of the first room ''crushes'' Viola between two walls.
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** OffWithHerHead: One of ''several'' ways Viola can die in this game; putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off (bleeding, of courses), while her body prances away. By this point, it should actually have been expected.
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** OffWithHerHead: One of ''several'' ways Viola can die in this game; putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off (bleeding, of courses), course), while her body prances away. By this point, it should actually have been expected.
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* DeathTropes: In a game like this, any bad decision means Viola can fulfill ''several'':
** [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot: How the real Viola dies; her father shoots her twice in the head.]]
** EatenAlive: By a giant skull.
** EyeScream: The Book of Death (which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), makes Viola gouge her eyes out, which kills her. [[spoiler: The irony...]]
** ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In ''multiple'' ways; knives and vines are the most prominent.
** OffWithHerHead: One of ''several'' ways Viola can die in this game; putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off (bleeding, of courses), while her body prances away. By this point, it should actually have been expected.
** [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: Averted in-game with 'Viola', i.e. Ellen, who only has 10 HP and dies if you look at her funny; the real Viola, in Ellen's body, is this. With gouged out eyes, a burned throat, chopped off legs, and a knife in her body, it's only two bullets to the brain that stop her.]]
** [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot: How the real Viola dies; her father shoots her twice in the head.]]
** EatenAlive: By a giant skull.
** EyeScream: The Book of Death (which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), makes Viola gouge her eyes out, which kills her. [[spoiler: The irony...]]
** ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In ''multiple'' ways; knives and vines are the most prominent.
** OffWithHerHead: One of ''several'' ways Viola can die in this game; putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off (bleeding, of courses), while her body prances away. By this point, it should actually have been expected.
** [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: Averted in-game with 'Viola', i.e. Ellen, who only has 10 HP and dies if you look at her funny; the real Viola, in Ellen's body, is this. With gouged out eyes, a burned throat, chopped off legs, and a knife in her body, it's only two bullets to the brain that stop her.]]
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* OffWithHerHead: One of ''several'' ways Viola can die in this game; putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off (bleeding, of courses), while her body prances away. By this point, it should actually have been expected.
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* {{Determinator}}: Despite the entire house being alive and ''actively trying to kill her with damn near everything it has'', Viola never stops trying to get out of it — all because she needed a way to remove a rose bush blocking her path. [[spoiler: The true Viola, however, is the mutilated "witch" we see, and she's even more remarkable; despite being in a body that should be long dead, she never stops pursuing Ellen, who has her body, just so she can take her body back and return home to her father. This is all done while having no eyes, no legs, and no voice, in a sick body that is actively bleeding out.]]
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* Daddy'sGirl: Viola is her father's only daughter (and as it seems, only living family member), and he seems very concerned for her safety given his letters, and actions in the end of the game.
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* [[spoiler: InstantExpert: Viola, in Ellen's body, despite being in IMMENSE PAIN from no eyes, a burning throat, and chopped off legs, learns to use Ellen's own magic against her ''very quickly'' to trap her inside her own house. It doesn't stick.]]
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* OneHitPointWonder: Viola has 10 HP...this has absolutely no effect on gameplay whatsoever; one hit from ANYTHING will kill this girl.
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* [[spoiler: ForegoneConclusion: Viola's death. Even if Ellen hadn't gone ''out of her way'' to make the girl suffer through mutilation, and then getting her killed by her own father, the sickness itself would have eventually killed her, if one of Ellen's diaries is anything to go by. Viola's death was assured the moment the body swap occurred.]]
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* [[spoiler:FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Despite all of her efforts, every bit of perseverance, Viola would have never been able to get her old body back from Ellen. The spell to transfer bodies requires a bond of trust, as well as consent, from the target of the spell; obviously, Ellen, who is only too happy to be in a body that no longer hurts, would not provide this. Additionally, Ellen's contract with the black cat is infallible; had Viola managed to kill Ellen, or somehow get her body back, the cat would restart time until the contract had ended: said contract involving Ellen gaining a healthy body. In short, Viola was screwed the moment Ellen saw her as a target.]]
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-->'''Ellen:''' (about Viola) ''Then a girl came to play. A cute girl with golden braids...''
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*MissingMom: We don't know anything about Viola's mother; [[spoiler:Ellen in Viola's body]] describes Viola and her father as a 'close family of two'.
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Viola is the protagonist of the game; a 13 year old girl and the only daughter of a huntsman. Viola befriends Ellen, the witch who lives in a large house on the edge of the forest. Her adventure throughout the game takes her through Ellen's house as she tries to make an escape from it; avoiding every trap and solving every puzzle to make it out of the house safely, along with her faithful black cat.
[[spoiler: In actuality, the "Viola" we play as is "Ellen", the witch; Viola is tricked by Ellen into switching bodies, weak and sick, with the promise of "just for a day." Feeling sorry for her friend, Viola agreed, only for Ellen to cut off her legs, gouge out her eyes, and pour burning "medicine" down her throat after the transfer, leaving Viola to die in a sick body and damaged body. Viola is encountered as the "antagonist" of the game; using Ellen's body and magic to trap the witch inside her own house in a desperate bid to get her body back]].
[[spoiler: She is killed by her own father while still in Ellen's body]].
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[[spoiler: In actuality, the "Viola" we play as is "Ellen", the witch; Viola is tricked by Ellen into switching bodies, weak and sick, with the promise of "just for a day." Feeling sorry for her friend, Viola agreed, only for Ellen to cut off her legs, gouge out her eyes, and pour burning "medicine" down her throat after the transfer, leaving Viola to die in a sick body and damaged body. Viola is encountered as the "antagonist" of the game; using Ellen's body and magic to trap the witch inside her own house in a desperate bid to get her body back]].
[[spoiler: She is killed by her own father while still in Ellen's body]].
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These are the characters from The Witch's House. Due to the limited number of characters who appear, all of them will be grouped here.
'''This page is heavy in spoilers; you have been warned.'''
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'''This page is heavy in spoilers; you have been warned.'''
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