History NightmareFuel / IdentityV

** Luca Balsa/The Prisoner was once the protege of a famous inventor. His life fell apart, however, when he and his mentor's came to blows, with his mentor being killed in what appeared to be a freak accident produced by Luca's invention. Luca was imprisoned, slandered with hate, stripped of all of his belongings and sentenced to hang. Upon being paroled by the owner of Oletus Manor, Luca decided to accept their invitation to participate in a game being held at the manor. His fate is unlikely to have been a good one.

*** Further analysis, likewise, implies that the Church gaining custody of the children and may not have actually been a ray of hope, but instead a case of FromBadToWorse...

* From a Survivor's perspective, going against Yidhra/The Dream Witch. As she is invisible,[[ParanoiaFuel they have no idea where she could possibly be and where she could attack from.]] Fortunately though, the feeling can be mitigated if one is playing as Eli Clark/The Seer or Helena Adams/The Mind's Eye as the can see the Hunter's location at the start of the match.

** Freddy Riley/The Lawyer ruined Leo Beck/The Hell Ember's life, tricking him into buying a factory with a large debt and tearing his family apart in the process. [[spoiler: After being forced to put his beloved daughter Lisa (Emma Woods/The Gardner) in an orphanage]], Leo attempted to commit suicide by burning down the factory while he was still inside it. Freddy's reasons for doing all of this? He wanted to have Leo's wife for himself.

---> '''Jack''': [[{{Sadist}} I love watching them shiver. So cute.]]

** Kurt Frank/The Explorer is a famous adventurer, and charismatic storyteller, who has spent his life travelling all over the world. [[spoiler: Or so he believes. In truth, Kurt is a former inmate of the White Sand Street Asylum, whose "adventures" are heavily implied to have actually been delusions produced by his schizophrenia-inflicted mind.]] This can also be classified as a {{Tearjerker}}.
** Vera Nair/The Perfumer [[spoiler: (actually Chloe Nair) murdered her twin sister and stole her identity, under the mistaken belief that her sister was stealing her life's work and patenting it off as her own. In truth the real Vera had actually been trying to help her sister. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Chloe is horrified when she finds out the truth after reading her sister's diary.]]]]
** Margaretha Zelle/The Female Dancer is heavily implied to have been responsible for, or at least played a large role in, [[spoiler: the Moon River Tragedy.]]
** Aesop Carl/The Embalmer, following his mother's funeral, was taken in by an elderly embalmer named Jerry Carl. [[spoiler: Jerry was actually a SerialKiller, who believed it was his duty to help people "pass on" to the next life (whether they wanted to or not). Jerry would spend years brainwashing and grooming Aesop to follow in his footsteps. The fact that Aesop later killed him in the same way Jerry had killed his victims, all while claiming to finally understand the "role" his mentor played, implies that he succeeded...]]
*** In his 2021 Character Day letter, it is revealed that he is [[spoiler: planning on killing Victor Grantz/The Postman.]]
** Norton Campbell/The Prospector was a hardworking and charming miner who ended up scarred and traumatised after being left the sole survivor of a mining accident. [[spoiler: In truth, Norton himself, inadvertently, caused the accident (bringing down the mine and getting his fellow miners killed) while searching for a large amount of gold that was rumoured to be located somewhere in the mine.]]

*** Murro's Character Day Letter reveals that Mike was [[spoiler: a frequent customer of what appeared to be an organisation specialising in assassination. His comments about being unable to locate the cranial remains of an unspecified individual, and the fact that man he contacted (Arthur Russel) had previously been implied to research supernatural oddities, doesn't make things look good for Murro, nor does it appear to paint Mike in a very good light]]
** Victor Grantz/The Postman [[spoiler: is implied to have been involved with a criminal organisation, who used his role as a postman to traffic goods. A police officer, with an unclear connection to the organisation, was later murdered when the organisation (or possibly Victor himself) burned down his place of residence. Victor was then forced into silence, with the organisation threatening to kill his recently adopted dog, Wick.]]
*** [[spoiler: In one of his deductions, a police report reveals that all of the postmen before Victor who were being used by the mob ended up ''dead''. Had it not been for Victor's relationship with the policeman and his role in rescuing Wick from the burning house, it is very likely that he would have shared the same fate as them.]]

** Leo Beck was allegedly, at one point, a Survivor. After refusing to write in his diary, however, he was transformed into a Hunter and was later forced to hunt [[spoiler: his daughter]] who he appears to have had come to the manor searching for.

*** In his 2021 Character Day letter, it is revealed in one of the cultist's journals that the offerings [[HumanSacrifice were the villagers themselves.]] It is also implied that others such as [[spoiler: the author and Margeretha Zelle's Uncle Eugene and Aunt Marjorie]] were burned alive for being "blasphemous".

* Emma Woods/The Gardener setting Mr. Scarecrow on fire [[spoiler: (with The Thief inside of it, thus killing him)]] all so that she can reunite with Emily Dyer/The Doctor.

* In the Magician's Character Diary, if the player chooses to make Servais Le Roy/The Magician not respond to Kurt Frank/The Explorer, Kurt will become frustrated and [[spoiler: '''fucking stab Servais!''']] Especially jarring given that Kurt's 2020 Character Day letter had described him as being [[spoiler: non-violent.]]

** While not as horrifying as the other examples, take a close look at Orpheus' neighbours. The husband, in particular, bears a striking resemblance a [[AmoralAttorney character we've seen before,]] while his wife resembles a woman connected to said character. [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror And given that]] [[KarmaHoudini said character was the only Survivor to have avoided danger during his assigned game]], [[TheBadGuyWins and we were never told what the prize was for winning a game...]]]] Judging by the Mainstory Recall video, however, which replaces the couple with a young boy, it would appear that this part of the storyline may have been retconned.

* [[spoiler: If Orpheus is right (and Eli's 2021 Character Day letter heavily implies he is), the manor is an experiment. Survivors cannot escape and even if they win, their memories are removed, and they are forced to play another match with different people.]]
** The reason why the Hunters powers seem so crazy? Orpheus theorises it's because [[spoiler: the hallucinogenic drugs that are unwittingly fed to the Survivors distort their perception of reality.]]

** [[spoiler: Orpheus mentions that losing has consequences and that the only way to stop the game is to die. Kreacher, Kurt, Servais, Naib, Martha and Kevin are seen, repeatedly. Every other Survivor who has been present in a Character Diary, plus any Survivors whose Character Day letters allude to their own games, aren't.]]

** When Robbie White's/The Axe Boy's deductions aren't heartbreaking, they're pure AdultFear. Imagine dying only for your children to be forced into child labor and then transferred to an asylum for apparent mental disorders. The way Robbie dies is also terrifying: being decapitated by a broken window.

Considering that this is a SurvivalHorror game, it should come to no surprise that this page exists.

** [[spoiler: Orpheus mentions that losing has consequences and that the only way to stop the game is to die. Kreacher, Kurt, Servais, Naib, Martha and Kevin are seen, repeatedly. Ever other Survivor who has been present in a Character Diary, plus any Survivors whose Character Day letters allude to their own games, aren't.]]

** [[spoiler: Orpheus mentions that losing has consequences and that the only way to stop the game is to die. Kreacher, Kurt, Servais, Naib, Martha and Kevin are seen, repeatedly. Emma, Freddy, Emily, William, Murro, nor any other named survivor, cannot be seen at any time.]]

* [[spoiler: If Orpheus is right, the manor is an experiment. Survivors cannot escape and even if they win, their memories are removed, and are forced to play another match with different people.]]
** [[spoiler: Do you know why the hunter's powers seem so crazy? Because survivors are constantly being drugged, the intention is to make them hallucinate.]]
** [[spoiler: Orpheus mentions that losing has consequences and that the only way to stop the game is to die. Kreacher, Kurt, Servais, Naib, Martha and Kevin are seen, repeatedly. Patricia, Emma, ​​Emily, Freddy and Murro cannot be seen at any time.]]

*** Even after escaping from the circus, his life didn't get any better. While waiting to participate in a game held at Oletus Manor, Murro disappeared (allegedly jumping out of a and running off into the forest). His beloved boar companion was later found dead outside the manor. Murro's fate, and the role the other survivors played in his disappearance and/or the death of his boar is currently unclear.

*** Even after escaping from the circus, his life didn't get any better. While waiting to participate in a game held at Oletus Manor, Murro disappeared (allegedly jumping out of a window and running off into the forest). His beloved boar companion was later found dead outside the manor. Murro's fate, and the role the other survivors played in his disappearance and/or the death of his boar is currently unclear.

* [[spoilers: If Orpheus is right, the manor is an experiment. Survivors cannot escape and even if they win, their memories are removed, and are forced to play another match with different people.]]

[[folder:Character Diaries]]

** While not as horrifying as the other examples, take a close look at Orpheus' neighbours. The husband, in particular, bears a striking resemblance a [[AmoralAttorney character we've seen before,]] while his wife resembles a woman connected to said character. [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror And given that]] [[KarmaHoudini said character was the only Survivor to have avoided danger during his assigned game]], [[TheBadGuyWins and we were never told what the prize was for winning a game...]]]]

** After accepting a commission from Baron [=DeRoss=], Galatea/The Sculptor's sculpting abilities greatly improved. However, her family soon became concerned as they noticed that she would talk to her statues. After seeing her do it again one night, her father threw one of her statues off a terrace and she decided to jump off as well to go after it, causing her to become hemiplegic. Following this incident, she was sent to a mental institution where she was assigned a single nurse to look after her. Said nurse was later killed by Galatea and turned into her works of art.

** After accepting a commission from a wealthy gentleman, Galatea/The Sculptor's sculpting abilities greatly improved. However, her family soon became concerned as they noticed that she would talk to her statues. After seeing her do it again one night, her father threw one of her statues off a terrace and she decided to jump off as well to go after it, causing her to become hemiplegic. Following this incident, she was sent to a mental institution where she was assigned a single nurse to look after her. Said nurse was later killed by Galatea and turned into her works of art.

* In the Magician's Character Diary, if the player chooses to make Servais Le Roy/The Magician not to listen to what Kurt Frank/The Explorer has to say, Kurt will become frustrated and [[spoiler: '''fucking stab Servais!''']] Especially jarring given that Kurt's 2020 Character Day letter had described as being [[spoiler: non-violent.]]
* Considering the reactions of his neighbors and that he wakes up with cuts over his body and near items he would never touch, whatever the hell Orpheus' split personality is.

** It should also be noted that she used to be a ''child'' at his orphanage, making the whole thing even creepier.

* William Ellis /The Forward (seemingly) being poisoned by Naib Subedar/The Mercenary, likely following Servais Le Roy/The Magician's orders, with the wine he drank, because he knew too much.

*** Even after escaping from the circus, his life didn't get any better. While waiting to participate in a game held at Oletus Manor, Murro disappeared (allegedly jumping out of a window and running off into the forest). His beloved boar companion was later found dead outside the manor. Murro's fate, and the role the other survivors played in his disappearance and/or the death of his boar is currently unclear. [[FridgeHorror Though considering how he was replaced by The Magician, who just so happens to have a history of murdering others to get his way...]]

*** Murro's Character Day Letter reveals that Mike was [[spoiler: a frequent customer of what appeared to be an organisation specialising in assassination. His comments about being unable to locate the cranial remains of an unspecified individual, and the fact that man he contacted (Arthur Russel) had previously been implied to research supernatural oddities, potentially leads to the implication that he offered to allow Murro to be dissected and studied, in return for one of Russel's agents carrying out a hit at the circus.]]

** Murro/The Wildling spent the first ten years of his life in a cage, completely devoid of human contact, apart from the occasional visits by his uncle Bernard, the ringmaster of Hullabaloo Circus (who is heavily implied to have locked Murro in the cage in the first place). After being let out of the cage, Murro was advertised as a feral child that Bernard had found living in the woods, and was forced to perform death-defying stunts while riding a boar. Also doubles as a {{Tearjerker}}.

** Margaretha Zelle/The Female Dancer is heavily implied to have been responsible for, or at least played a large role in, [[spoiler: the massacre of Hullabaloo Circus.]]

** Further analysis, likewise, implies that the Church gaining custody of the children and may not have actually been a ray of hope, but instead a case of FromBadToWorse...