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* CreepyCrows: A crow perches on a branch just above the Waverley family's grave-plots when Eleanor takes Hannah to see the graves.
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* CreepyCrows: A crow raven perches on a branch just above the Waverley family's grave-plots when Eleanor takes Hannah to see the graves.
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* LoveLetter: Eleanor's sister Clarissa wants to write a poem to a local village boy in which she'll outline her feelings, and she requests Hannah to help her write a draft to get her thoughts down on paper.
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''The Haunting of Braidwood Manor'' is one of several stories from the game collection ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'', developed by Pixelberry.
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''The Haunting of Braidwood Manor'' is one of several stories from the game collection ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'', developed by Pixelberry.
Pixelberry. The game consists of one book divided into six chapters.
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* CatapultNightmare: The first book starts with Hannah having one of these, about Jonathan.
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* CatapultNightmare: The first book Chapter 1 starts with Hannah having one of these, about Jonathan.
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* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Beginning with the second book, Eleanor acts as this for Hannah, providing her with details on the goings-on at Braidwood Manor and some of the back-story.
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* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Beginning with the second book, Chapter 2, Eleanor acts as this for Hannah, providing her with details on the goings-on at Braidwood Manor and some of the back-story.
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* SanitySlippage: After meeting the Waverley family in Book 2 following her StaircaseTumble at the end of Book 1, Hannah wonders to herself if she's losing her mind. [[spoiler:Rose definitely lost hers in the back-story, leading to her killing her children and then herself]].
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* SanitySlippage: After meeting the Waverley family in Book Chapter 2 following her StaircaseTumble at the end of Book Chapter 1, Hannah wonders to herself if she's losing her mind. [[spoiler:Rose definitely lost hers in the back-story, leading to her killing her children and then herself]].
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* BugCatching: Simon's hobby, although he insists that it's an ''[[InsistentTerminology insect]]'' collection, not a ''bug'' collection.
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* AgentScully: While Victor consents to take Hannah to Braidwood Manor, he thinks she's nuts to want to stay at the house by herself, and is skeptical she'll find anything up there. [[spoiler:Whether you choose to let him join you or have him remain outside prior to the final confrontation, he'll be a SkepticNoLonger by that point]].
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Rose suffered one of these, leading to her killing her children and then herself]].
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* SanitySlippage: After meeting the Waverley family in Book 2 following her StaircaseTumble at the end of Book 1, Hannah wonders to herself if she's losing her mind. [[spoiler:Rose suffered one of these, definitely lost hers in the back-story, leading to her killing her children and then herself]].
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* FriendlyGhost: The Waverley siblings are this. [[spoiler:Rose definitely isn't. Jonathan isn't either, at first, but he gets better]].
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* ScreamingWoman: Hannah tends to do this early on, usually in response to being startled or scared.
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* BodyHorror: Jonathan died in a car crash, and Hannah and her parents had to identify his body, which, given what we see of his appearance at the start of the game, was ''not'' a pleasant sight. [[spoiler:Same with Rose, whose body was burned in the mansion's furnace]].
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* BodyHorror: Jonathan died in a car crash, and Hannah and her parents had to identify his body, which, given what we see of his appearance in Hannah's nightmare at the start of the game, was ''not'' a pleasant sight. [[spoiler:Same with Rose, whose body was burned in the mansion's furnace]].
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:Rose cut Eleanor's throat in the back-story, and in the present she tries to crush Hannah's skull]].
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* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: Beginning with the second book, Eleanor acts as this for Hannah, providing her with details on the goings-on at Braidwood Manor and some of the back-story.
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* [[MrExposition Ms Ms. Exposition]]: Beginning with the second book, Eleanor acts as this for Hannah, providing her with details on the goings-on at Braidwood Manor and some of the back-story.back-story.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Hannah is surprised to learn that, after she was knocked unconscious from her StaircaseTumble, Eleanor--a slim-figured girl her own age--actually managed to carry her up the stairs to put her to bed.
--> '''Eleanor:''' I'm not as fragile as I look, Hannah.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Hannah is surprised to learn that, after she was knocked unconscious from her StaircaseTumble, Eleanor--a slim-figured girl her own age--actually managed to carry her up the stairs to put her to bed.
--> '''Eleanor:''' I'm not as fragile as I look, Hannah.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Eleanor, the oldest of the four Waverley siblings, is this for her younger sister and brothers, as evidenced when they meet Hannah for the first time.
--> '''Clarissa:''' ''I,'' for one, am very excited to have another lady to talk to.
--> '''Eleanor:''' What does that make me?
--> '''Clarissa:''' Uh...
--> '''Simon:''' You're more like our mother!
--> '''Eleanor:''' ''(sighs)'' Wonderful. You can see why I need a break, Hannah.
--> '''Clarissa:''' ''I,'' for one, am very excited to have another lady to talk to.
--> '''Eleanor:''' What does that make me?
--> '''Clarissa:''' Uh...
--> '''Simon:''' You're more like our mother!
--> '''Eleanor:''' ''(sighs)'' Wonderful. You can see why I need a break, Hannah.
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* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: While relating the legend of Braidwood Manor to Victor at the beginning of the game, you can choose to have Hannah start the tale by citing this trope verbatim. Victor will then tell Hannah to cut the story short, since they're almost at the manor at that point.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: Can potentially happen if you're shipping Hannah and Eleanor, depending on the choices you make (and the Premium Choices you're willing to pay diamond-currency for). Although the two are roughly the same age, they are pretending that Hannah is the younger children's new governess, which--since Eleanor is their guardian--would technically make Eleanor Hannah's employer.
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* FirstKiss: In one Premium Choice scene, Eleanor will sheepishly confide to Hannah that she has a deeply personal secret--she's never been kissed before. [[ClosetKey Hannah can then offer to change that]].
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* TheArtfulDodger: Simon is a fan of [[Literature/OliverTwist the trope-naming book]] and behaves like the character from time-to-time, to the point of [[FiveFingerDiscount being able to pick pockets]]. Amusingly, his siblings inform Hannah that the first time Simon read the book, he refused to answer to any other name but "Artful Dodger" for weeks.
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* BiTheWay: While you can make certain choices during gameplay to have Hannah be attracted to Victor, she can also flirt with Eleanor (and in one Premium Choice path, be her ClosetKey).
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* UndeadChild: The Waverly children are unaware of their deaths.
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* UndeadChild: The Waverly Waverley children are unaware of their deaths.
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* StaircaseTumble: At the start of the game, Simon accidentally scares Hannah into taking one of these down the mansion stairs, resulting in her being knocked out.
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* StaircaseTumble: At the start of the game, Simon accidentally scares Hannah into taking one of these down the mansion stairs, resulting in her being knocked out.out.
* UndeadChild: The Waverly children are unaware of their deaths.
* UndeadChild: The Waverly children are unaware of their deaths.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: Except for the very beginning and the very end of the game, the entire plot takes place at Braidwood Manor, which is several miles away from the nearest town.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: Except for the very beginning and the very end of the game, the entire plot takes place at Braidwood Manor, which is several miles away from the nearest town. Additionally, Eleanor has forbidden her siblings to venture very far from the mansion, in order to prevent them from discovering they've been DeadAllAlong.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: Except for the very beginning and the very end of the game, the entire plot takes place at Braidwood Manor, which is several miles away from the nearest town.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Late into the game, Hannah laments that if Jonathan had only been willing to come and talk to her [[spoiler:before killing himself]], their family's tragedy could have been avoided.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Eleanor's main priority is keeping her three younger siblings safe.
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Rose suffered one of these, leading to her killing her children and then herself]].
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* EmpathicEnvironment: While it's snowing for most of the game, its intensity seems to increase or decrease depending on the mood of the scene at any given point. During calm scenes, the snowfall is light; in more emotional moments, it increases to snowstorm levels.
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* BrokenBird: Eleanor. While she's trying to keep up a strong front for her siblings' sake, it's clear that their circumstances and how they got there have not done her outlook on life any favors.
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* OffingTheOffspring: In the manor's back-story, Rose Waverley murdered all four of her children; the youngest three were killed first by poisoning, and when the oldest daughter Eleanor found out, Rose cut her throat.
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* OffingTheOffspring: In the manor's back-story, Rose [[spoiler:Rose Waverley murdered all four of her children; the youngest three were killed first by poisoning, and when the oldest daughter Eleanor found out, Rose cut her throat.throat]].
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* BerserkButton: Do not pry too deeply into the Waverley family's secrets without Eleanor's consent; on one occasion when Hannah does this, Eleanor's response is to bodily cast her out of the manor.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Thomas, Eleanor's 12-year-old younger brother, is arrogant, haughty, and openly hostile to Hannah when they first meet. As the game progresses, however, it's clear that it's a coping mechanism for him due to missing his father, who he usually played piano-duets with. Ironically, Simon--the youngest child at eight years old--does ''not'' act like this.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Both Jonathan and Rose]] got subjected to this, although nobody knew the circumstances for a long time.
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** SecretSecretKeeper: Prior to Hannah's arrival, Eleanor herself was this in regard to that very same fact. [[spoiler:Hannah was likewise this in regards to her brother's suicide note]].
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* StaircaseTumble: At the start of the game, Simon accidentally scares Hannah into taking one of these down the mansion stairs.
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: This trope turns out to be a plot point. [[spoiler:Hannah's refusal to tell anyone about Jonathan's suicide note is why he can't move on; and Eleanor's refusal to tell her siblings the truth about their circumstances is why they're all still stuck at the manor]].
* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: Beginning with the second book, Eleanor acts as this for Hannah, providing her with details on the goings-on at Braidwood Manor and some of the back-story.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Waverley family members are all ghosts, but Hannah can interact with them as readily as if they were still among the living. As Eleanor herself admits when asked, she doesn't ''feel'' like a ghost; she feels much the same as she did in life, except for the sensation that "something's missing, or like I've taken a wrong turn."
--> '''Eleanor:''' I feel...lost. Forgotten.
--> '''Eleanor:''' I feel...lost. Forgotten.
* SecretKeeper: Eleanor knows she and her siblings are ghosts, but ''they'' don't know, and so she persuades Hannah to become this so as not to alarm the children.
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* SlashedThroat: How Eleanor died in the back-story.
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* SlashedThroat: How Eleanor died in the back-story.back-story.
* StaircaseTumble: At the start of the game, Simon accidentally scares Hannah into taking one of these down the mansion stairs.
* StaircaseTumble: At the start of the game, Simon accidentally scares Hannah into taking one of these down the mansion stairs.
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* BodyHorror: Jonathan died in a car crash, and Hannah and her parents had to identify his body, which, given what we see of his appearance at the start of the game, was ''not'' a pleasant sight. [[spoiler:Same with Rose, whose body was burned in the mansion's furnace]].
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* ChekhovsGun: Simon's tin-soldier collection, which Hannah sees set out along the mansion's staircase at the start of the game to establish that the ghosts do indeed still live there. [[spoiler:Hannah later produces one of them to prove to Victor that she didn't hallucinate the events of the game up to that point]].
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* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:Or woman, in Rose's case]].
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* SharedUniverse: This game shares a universe with several of the other games in the ''Choices'' series. Most directly, Hannah is a student at Hartfelt University, the setting of ''VisualNovel/TheFreshman'', and is friends with some of the main characters from that game; and Braidwood Manor is several miles away from the outskirts of the city of Northbridge, the setting of ''VisualNovel/{{Hero}}''.
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In order to find a way to get Jonathan's ghost at peace, Hannah decides to spend some time at the legendary Braidwood Manor, which is infamous for being the site of a MurderSuicide over a century earlier, in the hopes of getting some answers. Once she arrives there, however, she discovers that the house has some rather dark secrets...
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In order to find a way to get Jonathan's ghost at peace, Hannah decides to spend some time at the legendary Braidwood Manor, which is infamous for being the site of a MurderSuicide mass-murder over a century earlier, in the hopes of getting some answers. Once she arrives there, however, she discovers that the house has some rather dark secrets...
* TheAlcoholic: During the game, it's revealed that after he found the bodies of his children, William Waverley left the area and subsequently drank himself to death out of grief.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the game Hannah can choose to let Eleanor do this and join her siblings, or to have Eleanor remain as a mortal]].
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:At the end of the game Hannah can choose to let Eleanor do this and join her siblings, or to have Eleanor remain as a mortal]].
* CreepyCrows: A crow perches on a branch just above the Waverley family's grave-plots when Eleanor takes Hannah to see the graves.
* HauntedHouse: Braidwood Manor. Even before Hannah goes there, it's long been rumored to still be inhabited by the ghosts of the Waverley family.
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* OffingTheOffspring: In the manor's back-story, Rose Waverley murdered all four of her children; the youngest three were killed first by poisoning, and when the oldest daughter Eleanor found out, Rose cut her throat.
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* SceneryPorn: The scenery in this game is quite gorgeously rendered, particularly the outside view of Braidwood Manor.
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* SceneryPorn: The scenery in this game is quite gorgeously rendered, particularly the outside view of Braidwood Manor.
* SlashedThroat: How Eleanor died in the back-story.
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''The Haunting of Braidwood Manor'' is one of several stories from the game collection ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'', developed by Pixelberry.
In this game, you play as Hannah, a college student who's been haunted for some time by the death of her brother Jonathan in a car crash. She's been having numerous nightmares in which he comes back from the dead and stalks her, and she's convinced that these are more than just bad dreams--that Jonathan is not at rest.
In order to find a way to get Jonathan's ghost at peace, Hannah decides to spend some time at the legendary Braidwood Manor, which is infamous for being the site of a MurderSuicide over a century earlier, in the hopes of getting some answers. Once she arrives there, however, she discovers that the house has some rather dark secrets...
!!''The Haunting of Braidwood Manor'' has examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: William Waverley experienced this in the back-story, when he came home to find all four of his children had been murdered.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Jonathan shows up to restrain Rose near the end of the game right when she's closing in on the protagonists]].
* CatapultNightmare: The first book starts with Hannah having one of these, about Jonathan.
* GayOption: Although Victor is there as a potential love interest for Hannah, you can also have her romance Eleanor during gameplay. [[spoiler:At the end, if you choose to have Eleanor remain as a human, the two girls can potentially be a couple]].
* HelloInsertNameHere: Although Hannah is the protagonist's default name, you can name her whatever you wish at the beginning of the game.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler:Or rather, in the cellar]].
* OffingTheOffspring: In the manor's back-story, Rose Waverley murdered all four of her children; the youngest three were killed first by poisoning, and when the oldest daughter Eleanor found out, Rose cut her throat.
In this game, you play as Hannah, a college student who's been haunted for some time by the death of her brother Jonathan in a car crash. She's been having numerous nightmares in which he comes back from the dead and stalks her, and she's convinced that these are more than just bad dreams--that Jonathan is not at rest.
In order to find a way to get Jonathan's ghost at peace, Hannah decides to spend some time at the legendary Braidwood Manor, which is infamous for being the site of a MurderSuicide over a century earlier, in the hopes of getting some answers. Once she arrives there, however, she discovers that the house has some rather dark secrets...
!!''The Haunting of Braidwood Manor'' has examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: William Waverley experienced this in the back-story, when he came home to find all four of his children had been murdered.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Jonathan shows up to restrain Rose near the end of the game right when she's closing in on the protagonists]].
* CatapultNightmare: The first book starts with Hannah having one of these, about Jonathan.
* GayOption: Although Victor is there as a potential love interest for Hannah, you can also have her romance Eleanor during gameplay. [[spoiler:At the end, if you choose to have Eleanor remain as a human, the two girls can potentially be a couple]].
* HelloInsertNameHere: Although Hannah is the protagonist's default name, you can name her whatever you wish at the beginning of the game.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler:Or rather, in the cellar]].
* OffingTheOffspring: In the manor's back-story, Rose Waverley murdered all four of her children; the youngest three were killed first by poisoning, and when the oldest daughter Eleanor found out, Rose cut her throat.
