| 1 | These are the characters from ''The Witch's House''. Due to the [[MinimalistCast limited number of characters who appear]], all of them will be grouped here. |
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| 3 | '''WARNING: Due to the nature of the {{plot}}, all {{spoiler}}s are [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]]!''' |
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| 7 | !Main Characters |
| 8 | [[folder:Viola]] |
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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:If only I could take your place...]] |
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| 12 | -->''I felt so sorry for her, I lent her my body. ...And yet. Ellen ran, leaving me behind. She had me drink a medicine that burned my throat, and said she'd borrow my body forever. Her betrayal echoed in my ears.'' |
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| 14 | The DecoyProtagonist[=/=]HeroAntagonist of the game. She is 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. Unfortunately, Ellen tricks her into switching bodies, then mutilates her own body, trapping Viola inside the house while she escapes. Viola traps Ellen in her house and uses 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 Ellen encounters her in the last stretch of the game; ultimately, she is tragically killed by her own father, in the man's misguided attempt to protect his daughter. |
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| 16 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: Very downplayed. In the manga adaptation of ''The Diary of Ellen'', she wears girly shoes instead of boots like in the game. |
| 17 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Viola, while seeing Ellen getting worse with sickness, had muttered "If only I could take your place...". Cue Ellen switching bodies with her and dooming her to a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 18 | * BoomHeadshot: Not knowing it's her, Viola's father shoots the real Viola twice in the head. |
| 19 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Viola's body is incredibly strong for her age. She's able to push large bust statues and break holes in walls to create doors to solve a mouth puzzle. |
| 20 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: By the time she's finally dead, her legs have been cut off, her eyes have been gouged out, her throat has been disfigured, she had to drag herself all over the house in that state, a knife's been driven into her empty eye socket, and she's been shot two times in the head. And that's before her soul gets devoured. Ellen actually made sure her death was agonizing on purpose, as the only thing that can fully kill a witch is despair. |
| 21 | * DaddysGirl: 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. This is mutual, as later it's discussed how one of the only things Viola is thinking of is getting back to her father. |
| 22 | * DeathByDespair: After getting Ellen's body, she also receives her powers as a Witch and the Immortality that comes with it, which has only one clause that can kill her: despair. If a Witch despairs, they immediately die. Sadly enough, in the True Ending as she pitifully tries to call out to her father, she gets called a monster by him, shot, and takes Ellen who taunted her to hell and back beforehand. All of this culminated into despair, which is what truly killed her. |
| 23 | * DeclarationOfProtection: In the novelization, Viola vows to always be there for Ellen. Sadly, it backfired when Ellen manipulates Viola to her doom. |
| 24 | * DecoyProtagonist: Supposedly, she is the PlayerCharacter, but in truth you are playing as Ellen [[GrandTheftMe in her body]]. |
| 25 | * DespairEventHorizon: She hits it after her father shouts that she's a monster and shoots her in the head when she can't get him to recognize her, and whisks Ellen away in her body after Ellen pauses to rub salt in the wound by giggling at Viola. Viola's despair actually kills her, as a witch can only lose her immortality through despair and Viola was a witch at that point; when she hit the Despair Event Horizon, she lost the immortality that'd been keeping her going up until that point and died. [[TheBadGuyWins Just as Ellen planned]]. |
| 26 | * {{Determinator}}: 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. |
| 27 | * 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 doomed the moment that Ellen first laid eyes upon her. |
| 28 | * FinalBoss: As the Legless Girl, she is the last pursuer, and escaping her leads to the Normal and True endings. |
| 29 | * GoodIsDumb: The prequel novel shows that Viola, out of the goodness of her heart, makes stupid choices too though--especially offering to swap bodies with Ellen for a day to give her some relief from her pain. Even if Ellen ''weren't'' already a very suspicious character and insisting on the trade under sketchy circumstances (hiding her gouged out eyes and chopped off legs) she could, for all Viola knew, have left Viola in that mansion in her weak body forever after the swap. |
| 30 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: She has these right before the final chase. |
| 31 | * GrandTheftMe: The victim of this by Ellen, though she was tricked into willingly switching bodies. |
| 32 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Golden-haired Viola appears to be a sweet girl, though it's subverted thanks to the cruel things you have to do to progress the game. Double subverted in that Viola is a sweet girl; Ellen stole her body. |
| 33 | * HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: In Ellen's body, all that's left of Viola is her upper torso; Ellen, in Viola's body, cut off the girl's legs. |
| 34 | * HeroAntagonist: It turns out that the true Viola is in Ellen's body and Ellen has been in Viola's, and thus the person we've been playing as the entire time. All the deaths Viola tries to do on Ellen is trying to force her to give up and give her body back to her. |
| 35 | * 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. |
| 36 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With Ellen, though subverted in that Ellen is a FalseFriend. Viola is technically the younger one in this friendship despite being a young woman and Ellen looking like a little girl. |
| 37 | * MissingMom: Viola's mother died when she was a child. |
| 38 | * NiceGirl: Viola is a kind and caring girl, essentially the polar opposite of Ellen. |
| 39 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Her befriending the sickly little girl who was all alone and agreeing to that sickly little girl's request to trade bodies "for a day", resulted in her losing everything she had, including her life. |
| 40 | * ParentsInDistress: "The Diary of Ellen" reveals that Viola had resigned herself to the fate Ellen had in store for her up until she realized that her father would be at risk from Ellen's evil next. Viola is motivated to act against Ellen ''solely'' in attempt to protect her father from that. |
| 41 | * ThePowerOfBlood: It's implied that the bloody messages left in the Garden is Viola taunting Ellen, compared to the helpful notes the House leaves. As well, when chasing Ellen in the Extra Mode of the MV remake, she will spawn pools of blood that will forcibly slow Ellen down and will more than likely let her get caught. |
| 42 | * ThePowerOfLove: It was her love for her father, and her fear of Ellen harming him, that kept her alive in the witch's mutilated body. It is only when her father doesn't recognize her and shoots her in the head that she finally gives in to despair and dies. |
| 43 | * RasputinianDeath: 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. The prequel novel even gives the implication that it's as much the despair she feels in that moment as it is the damage that finally puts her down. |
| 44 | * WalkingSpoiler: Being that she is actually the HeroAntagonist, [[DecoyProtagonist rather than the protagonist]]. |
| 45 | * WiseBeyondHerYears: [[ImpliedTrope Possibly]]. The inner monologues she gets in "The Diary of Ellen" sound surprisingly eloquent and sophisticated for a 13-year-old girl. |
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| 48 | [[folder:Ellen]] |
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| 50 | [[caption-width-right:334: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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| 52 | -->''My sickness was going to kill me. So… I took her body from her. I lived on in her body. That's fine, right? Because we're "friends".'' |
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| 54 | The titular witch, and the true protagonist 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 made a pact with a demon to become his witch and help him consume souls. After killing hundreds of people for centuries, she befriended Viola, a young girl who came to play with her; effectively getting her first real friend. Her adventure throughout the game takes her through her 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, the aforementioned demon. |
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| 56 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: How she tries to justify her vile actions and behavior- she claims that good and evil are concepts made up by humans and considers the humans evil for getting in the way of her happiness. |
| 57 | * ActionSurvivor: Makes her way through an enchanted house full of death traps and puzzles, with zero means to defend herself or fight back against anything. |
| 58 | * AllThereInTheManual: Besides the small portions in the Witch's Diary, the majority of her backstory is revealed in the prequel. |
| 59 | * AllWitchesHaveCats: The Black Cat serves as something of a guide and a helper (and a save point) to Ellen. The cat is in fact possessed by the demon who gave the witch her powers, so the "cat" is actually the master in the relationship. |
| 60 | * AndIMustScream: One of the possible deaths involves her being trapped in a {{painting|s}} by Art/TheMonaLisa. |
| 61 | * TheBadGuyWins: She succeeds in killing Viola and escaping with her body, stealing her father all the while. |
| 62 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: During the game, she hacks off the limbs of a living teddy bear with scissors, befriends a frog only to feed it to a snake, drowns the frog's tadpole children in blood, and even extends it to non-animals by plucking/poisoning a friendly, sapient flower. As well, she likes to use the Black Cat Demon as her guinea pig for testing out her {{death trap}}s whenever he does something to annoy her, such as dunking him in the acid pool north of the garden roof. |
| 63 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Her entire MO is to pretend to be a tiny, sweet, helpless ill girl, only to lure her victims to their violent deaths. Notably, Ellen befriended and used Viola to [[GrandTheftMe get her body]], tortured her by cutting her legs and gouging her eyes out before the switch, then burned her throat. |
| 64 | * BlatantLies: She claims that she takes no pleasure in her evil deeds, while going out of her way to make her kills as gruesome and horrifying as possible. Made more obvious in the manga, where she sports a SlasherSmile as she claims this. |
| 65 | * BodyHorror: Ellen's body is ravaged by an illness that causes rashes on her, up to the point when it's left unchecked long enough, it rots away her flesh. It continually progresses even as being in the house keeps her healthy while inside it. In the manga, when Ellen lets herself be thrown outside by a man trying to kill her, it's enough that her nose has rotted away and her face is a thin veil of rotted, bloody flesh with her limbs being practically only bones. |
| 66 | * ConsummateLiar: How she was able to befriend Viola and get her to agree with switching bodies with her. |
| 67 | * CuteWitch: In appearance, anyway. She is a small child with purple hair and big eyes in a red dress. Personality-wise, though, she is a grade-A WickedWitch. |
| 68 | * DealWithTheDevil: In desperation, she makes one with the Black Cat Demon to become a witch- with the catch that she cannot leave the house until she gives him enough souls. |
| 69 | * DeathByIrony: The Book of Death can kill Ellen while in Viola's body by making her gouge out her own eyes, exactly what Ellen did to her own body prior to switching with Viola. Basically, all the Deaths that Viola inflicted on Ellen were ways that Ellen had killed people within the house. |
| 70 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: After being neglected by her parents, she gets to the point that she'd happily ''kill'' for love. |
| 71 | * {{Determinator}}: Despite the entire house being alive and ''actively trying to kill her with damn near everything it has'', Ellen never stops trying to get out of it — all because she needed a way to remove a rose bush blocking her path. |
| 72 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Ellen is capable of using magic and has used it for centuries to kill people. When she uses the Body Swapping spell on Viola, she never imagined that Viola would suddenly be capable of using magic due to how magic is tied to one's body instead of soul. Granted, she isn't as surprised as most sufferers of the trope are, and believes that the House will remain loyal to her and show her the way. |
| 73 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: As the Witch, she appears to be the one running the house. In truth, she is little more than a pawn of the Black Cat Demon, who made her his witch and is manipulating her for his own ends. |
| 74 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: The PlayerCharacter was the witch all along. |
| 75 | * TheDragon: To the Black Cat Demon. He allows Ellen to believe they are in an equal partnership, but his keeping her life at bay and the prequel revealing he's the one who broke her into being a source of souls for him to devour make it clear she's truly subordinate to him (in an odd inversion of the {{Familiar}} trope). |
| 76 | * EatenAlive: She can be eaten by a giant spider, snake and even a moving skull. |
| 77 | * EnfantTerrible: Ellen is said by the novel to have become a witch as a seven-year-old little girl, which, thanks to immortality, is the way she stays. A seven-year-old who sets people up to die in horrible ways to give their souls to a demon to eat, calling her victims her "friends." |
| 78 | * EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: She did genuinely love her father and feels guilt after killing him. She also loves the House, her surrogate mother, who loves her back. |
| 79 | * EvilCripple: Her illness weakens her to the point of being barely able to walk and spending most of the time confined to her bed. Her handicap is actually the cause of her evil, as it's her desperation to find an escape from being extremely weak and in constant pain that drove her to do so many terrible things. |
| 80 | * EvilGloating: Once the final chase takes Viola and Ellen outside her house, Ellen does this to Viola, revealing the plot twist about "Viola" actually being herself. |
| 81 | * EyeScream: The Book of Death makes her gouge her eyes out upon reading it, which kills her. She also gouged out her eyes in the backstory, leaving her sockets hollow and blood-streaked. |
| 82 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She is a seven-year-old ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld in appearance]]) CuteWitch with flowing purple hair and big eyes, and an adorable ill girl. She is also a sadistic WickedWitch who kills many innocent people and betrays those she befriends. However, it's downplayed as she was corrupted into being one. |
| 83 | * FalseFriend: The only reason that Ellen "befriended" Viola was because she needed a sincere bond of trust and consent in order for the Black Cat's body-swapping spell to work. |
| 84 | * FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: After killing her neglectful parents, she dreams about them being happy together as a family. |
| 85 | * FreudianExcuse: She became an evil witch because [[ParentalNeglect her father never acknowledged her]] and [[ParentalAbandonment her mother was leaving her with her father to go with a rich man]], and afterwards the Demon, who took her in at her most vulnerable moment, [[AbusiveDad abused and warped her]] to beat the compassion out of her and make her a witch. |
| 86 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: From a mere 7 year old child who was abandoned by her parents to a mass murdering witch of the forest. This trope also gets Inverted, with her going back to "nobody" when she takes over Viola's body. |
| 87 | * GrandTheftMe: Performs this on Viola, tricking her into consenting so she can condemn Viola to a FateWorseThanDeath whole escaping the house. |
| 88 | * HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: In the third pseudo-ending, it's revealed that Ellen cut her legs off and gouged her eyes out, and to add insult to injury, gave Viola a throat-burning "medicine" so that she would no longer be able to scream with Ellen's own voice. This was to ensure that Viola died, because a witch's immortality and glamour fails if she suffers great despair. She can also suffer this fate in some of the Game Overs, notably the very first one in the MV remake, which has her crushed by two walls and split in half when they retract. Her organs can even be seen stretching. |
| 89 | * TheHeavy: As the VillainProtagonist, she is naturally the most active of the villains. However, she is an UnwittingPawn to the Black Cat Demon. |
| 90 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Essentially all the potential deaths she can suffer are deaths that she subjected her victims to, utilizing the traps in her house. |
| 91 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: All she 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. 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 only 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. |
| 92 | * InvincibleVillain: So long as she has the cat demon on her side to revive her whenever she dies, there is no way for her to lose. |
| 93 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In multiple ways through the game. Knives and vines are the most prominent; she can even be stabbed through by a flower if she tries to attack it the wrong way. |
| 94 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With Viola, though subverted in that Ellen is a FalseFriend. Ellen is technically the ''older'' one in this friendship despite looking like a little girl. |
| 95 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Though initially reluctant, she gets on board with the offer the demon gives her to become an evil witch, since [[MisanthropeSupreme she hates people anyway]]. |
| 96 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first, she is a neglected ill girl, and even after killing her parents, she tries to befriend the boy who visits her. One misunderstanding and a BreakHerByTalking by her demon master later, she kills him and fully embraces being a WickedWitch, luring and massacring innocents without remorse. |
| 97 | * JustFollowingOrders: She attempts to justify her killing in the prequel by claiming that she is just doing what the demon says so he can give her a cure for her illness. Subverted as she is clearly taking pleasure in her job. |
| 98 | * KarmaHoudini: Ellen gets away with sacrificing an untold number of lost children to a demon and stealing Viola's body. Unless, of course, you count getting painfully killed every time you screw up. |
| 99 | * TheKillerInMe: In the end, it's revealed that "Viola" is actually her in Viola's body, and the ''real'' Viola is in Ellen's. |
| 100 | * LaughingMad: After she switched bodies with Viola, Ellen was positively ecstatic to be in a body that no longer hurt at all. And made worse by her gloating to Viola that she had stolen the girl's body. |
| 101 | * TheManyDeathsOfYou: She can suffer many deaths at the hands of the traps in the house. |
| 102 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Not initially, but she grew to hate other people ever since she was young, including and especially her own neglectful parents, because she believed that no one loves her and therefore everyone is worthless. |
| 103 | * MoralityPet: To the House. Their love for each other is their only redeeming quality. |
| 104 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After killing her parents, she regrets it as she thinks about the happy family they could have been. |
| 105 | * {{Narcissist}}: Textbook example. She cares only for herself, acts as a FalseFriend to the kind Viola, betrays her "friend" when she's no longer useful to her, is an UngratefulBitch ([[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals feeding a frog to a giant snake]] after it had done nothing but help her, and betraying Viola despite all she had done for her), has no empathy, [[NeverMyFault blames everyone else for her actions]], and is a total {{sadist}} (taunting Viola about her fate and snickering after she is killed by her own father). Everything she does is motivated by [[IJustWantToBeLoved her desire to be loved by both parents and friends]]. When she could receive neither, she turned to magic and began killing, and it's shown in her backstory that many of her first kills (her parents and a boy who ran away after seeing [[BodyHorror her true form]]) were only made after she thought they showed no love for her. The reason she was so dead-set on stealing Viola's body in the first place, aside from getting one that didn't hurt, was because she knew Viola had a kind and loving father, something she never had, and she wanted him for herself. Essentially, what she views as love is more akin to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply narcissistic supply]]. |
| 106 | * NeverMyFault: Whenever things go south and she betrays and murders someone, she victim-blames them. She justifies killing her parents because they neglected her, justifies betraying the boy and Viola by claiming that they never loved her because they ran away when they saw her true diseased body, excuses her sadistic mass murder by saying that she only does it because the demon makes her do it (though downplayed in they regard as she really does have no choice), and does not even bother trying to justify her animal cruelty beyond it being [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what she had to do to escape the house]]. |
| 107 | * NoblewomansLaugh: Has one in the true ending at Viola's expense. |
| 108 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In her backstory, she goes outside and buries a dead cat she admired, not wanting it eaten by crows. This sparks her mother to abandon her, which in turn sparks Ellen's StartOfDarkness. |
| 109 | * OffWithHerHead: One of several ways she can die in this game. Ignoring the crying statue gets her head ripped off, prying at vines in the Extra Mode of MV makes them rip it off, and putting on a pair of blood-filled shoes causes her head to pop off, bleeding, while her [[GrandTheftMe borrowed]] body prances away. |
| 110 | * OlderThanSheLooks: Ellen seems to have been born back in the Middle Ages, and is stated by the novelization to have been around seven years old when she gained immortality by becoming a witch. It's unclear how long she's lived since then -- either decades or ''centuries'' -- but it was long enough for guns to be invented. |
| 111 | * OneHitPointWonder: She has 10 HP, but this has absolutely no effect on gameplay whatsoever; one hit from anything will kill her. The only exception is the poisoned soup, which will take away 1 HP for every step she takes. Unfortunately, there is no cure for the poison within 10 steps (or anywhere in the game, for that matter), so it might as well be. |
| 112 | * ParentalNeglect: Ellen's father ignored her very existence, downright disregarding her and only paying attention to her mother, who herself struggled to give Ellen 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. |
| 113 | * PetTheDog: Subverted. She does rescue a butterfly and retrieve a ring for a woman statue, but only so she can progress through the house. |
| 114 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: ''The Diary Of Ellen'' essentially reveal her story from being a sympathetic ill-girl who wished to be loved to a sadistic little witch who is willing to murder hundreds of people in order to achieve that wish. |
| 115 | * PunchClockVillain: She kills people in service to her demon master, who eats their souls. |
| 116 | * PurpleIsPowerful: She has purple hair, inherited from her father, and is the master of the titular HauntedHouse, which she rules with an iron fist. |
| 117 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Retains the outward appearance of a seven year old girl, despite actually being centuries old, thanks to the house's magic. |
| 118 | * RedemptionRejection: Twice. First when the boy who befriends her comes back to apologize for running away after seeing her decaying body, offering to still be friends with her. She could have accepted and refused to obey the demon. Instead, she pretended to forgive the boy, only to have him crushed to death. The second time was with Viola. Ellen could have backed out of her plan to steal her body and simply remain friends with her. She instead continued her plan, condemning Viola to a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 119 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes, [[EyeScream or lack thereof]], are red. |
| 120 | * {{Sadist}}: After her corruption by the Demon, she goes out of her way to make her {{Death Trap}}s as horrifying as possible, taunts the dying, blind, mute, and crippled Viola about the situation that Ellen herself engineered, mocks Viola for trusting her, and snickers after Viola is killed by her own father. |
| 121 | * SelfHarm: An extreme example with Ellen cutting off her own legs and gouging her eyes out before swapping bodies with Viola, just to make her suffer. |
| 122 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Her first victims were her parents. The written novel states she suffered a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after murdering the people who actually cared for her. She then became a witch and never looked back. |
| 123 | * ShootTheDog: Or in this case, Feed the Frog to the Snake. Unfortunately, there comes a time where she must send her poor, cute little ally who loves her so much to his death in order to keep advancing through the witch's house. She also has to curb off the limbs of a living teddy bear, leaving it bleeding, drown the tadpole children of the frog in blood, and pluck/poison a friendly flower in order to make it through the house. Knowing [[{{Sadist}} Ellen]], she likely [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals did not have a problem with it]]. |
| 124 | * SilentProtagonist: For most of the actual game, she never says a word out loud, only speaking in the True Ending during TheReveal, in order to hide the twist and sort of justified where her surrounding in the house is mostly quiet. Averted in ''The Diary of Ellen'', where she is more chatty (as the prequel is a novel/manga). |
| 125 | * TheSociopath: Has traits of this mixed in with her general {{narcissist}} personality. Despite killing her mother after finding out that she never loved her, she feels no sense of remorse at all and ends up using her dead mother to get her father's attention, only to kill him as well when he doesn't even notice her. After making a contract with the demon, she only grew worse. Despite being able to feel empathy for animals (and even then that does not stop her from feeding a frog to a giant snake and killing his tadpoles), she possesses none for humans whatsoever. From her countless victims to eventually Viola, Ellen wants to [[ItsAllAboutMe make anyone love her]] and if they refuse regardless of their reasons she'll kill them off and revel in their suffering. |
| 126 | * SolitarySorceress: Her house is isolated from civilization, in the middle of the woods. This makes it easier to manipulate the forest to cause victims to lose their way and reach her house. The house will kill any who wander in, if the witch wishes it. This would not be possible if the house is in the middle of a village. |
| 127 | * SquashedFlat: A giant teddy bear, the small chasing skull, getting distracted while going through the hall she's not supposed to be distracted in, and some busts in the game can lead to her getting crushed and killed. |
| 128 | * SuperDrowningSkills: Another possible method of death is via drowning; it's also a very well-deserved death, as the tadpoles (who were the children of the frog she fed to the snake to save her own skin) do it as revenge against her. |
| 129 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Had catlike golden eyes but subverted since they have nothing to do with her being a witch; she simply happened to be born with them. |
| 130 | * SweetTooth: One of the childlike traits she never lost; she has no interest in proper meals and consumes nothing but tea and sweets. She notes that the house's chef can prepare a variety of excellent meals, but she only ever has him make her pastries and cakes. |
| 131 | * TragicVillain: Her backstory makes it clear she was a neglected child who just wants love and only kills people to cure her illness. She does become more sadistic as time goes on, but it is made clear that the demon is corrupting her. |
| 132 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: One of the major reveals of the game is that Ellen is the Witch responsible for trapping Viola in the house. |
| 133 | * {{Tykebomb}}: She was essentially raised by the House and the Black Cat Demon into becoming a mass-murdering witch to supply them with souls. |
| 134 | * UngratefulBitch: The frog, the boy, and Viola all show her nothing but love, genuinely try to get along with her, help her however they can, and in the latter two cases only run away temporarily due to a misunderstanding. Nevertheless, she brutally kills them- she lures the boy into a DeathTrap, feeds the frog to a giant snake, and switches bodies with Viola before burning out her throat and tricking her father into shooting her dead. She also lacks gratitude for the demon who rescued her from her neglectful life and made her his witch, as she uses him to test out her traps whenever he annoys her and generally sees him as a pawn (though given his abusive behavior and the fact that he took her in to make her a {{Tykebomb}}, her hatred of him is not unjustified). |
| 135 | * UnwittingPawn: To the Cat, who lets her think she is in charge when he is the one manipulating her. |
| 136 | * VillainProtagonist: In the end, she turns out to have been in Viola's body all along, with the ''real'' Viola actually being trapped in the witch's body. |
| 137 | * WalkingSpoiler: It is impossible to talk about her without revealing that she is both the Witch and the actual protagonist of the game. |
| 138 | * TheWallsAreClosingIn: The first death encountered; stepping on a pool of blood in the center of the first room crushes her between two walls. She also inflicted it on a boy she befriended in the past. |
| 139 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: Ellen had this trope in spades with regards to her father, who rarely even looked at her. It was bad enough that she was actually ''excited'' at the prospect of how furious he would be with her for killing his beloved wife, because that meant that he would finally be paying her attention; when he didn't ''even then'', she lost it (again) and killed him. Ellen also had this trope with her mother to a lesser extent, feeling that she had her mother's love but being so insecure and so desperate not to lose her mother's love that she would do anything she thought would please her mother and make her decide to stay and keep loving her. |
| 140 | * WickedWitch: As the master of the house, she uses it to murder innocent people she lured in with whatever gruesome DeathTrap she feels like using at the time. She is also a ManipulativeBitch with no problem backstabbing anyone she befriends. |
| 141 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She is a WickedWitch and prolific SerialKiller of children, but it's because she was broken into being so after facing nothing but abandonment in her life. Neglected by her parents, Ellen sought for someone to love her, until the Black Cat Demon told her no one would ever love her and the only way she could have taken what she wanted was by killing people so he could devour their souls in exchange for keeping her alive and well. For how much of a monster she is, it is made clear that the Demon [[{{Tykebomb}} raised her into one]]. |
| 142 | * WouldHurtAChild: ...And what do you know? Children are her primary targets as they're easily lured into the house. |
| 143 | * YoungerThanSheLooks: Oddly manages to be both this and OlderThanSheLooks due to being supernaturally young. While she's been alive for hundreds of years, her physical body is that of a seven-year-old, but she's often depicted as being around the same size as Viola, a thirteen-year-old. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Black Cat]] |
| 147 | !The Demon |
| 148 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/58e5c9c6_d257_4f6c_8cf6_a253199df88b.jpeg]] |
| 149 | [[caption-width-right:350:Good luck with the rest, Ellen... my faithful witch.]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | -->''By the way, this is a witch's house, but you already knew that, right?'' |
| 152 | |
| 153 | A supporting character in the game, the Black Cat is a sarcastic talking cat that accompanies Ellen throughout the duration of the game, functioning as her save point. He is also the demon who contracted Ellen, making her into his witch, and he uses her to kill people so he may collect their souls. |
| 154 | ---- |
| 155 | * AbusiveDad: Of the emotionally abusive variety. The Black Cat acts as a ParentalSubstitute towards Ellen and takes every opportunity to break down her sense of self, convincing her that only he loves her. This is so she will be more receptive to his demands that she kill people for him. In this case, however, the abuse is mutual, as Ellen herself beats and kills his body if he annoys her. |
| 156 | -->'''Ellen:''' I ... really despise you.\ |
| 157 | '''Black Cat:''' Oh? Well, I like you. |
| 158 | * AllWitchesHaveCats: He serves as something of a guide and a helper (and a save point) to Ellen. The cat is in fact possessed by the demon who gave the witch her powers, so the "cat" is actually the master in the relationship. |
| 159 | * TheBadGuyWins: He succeeded in getting Ellen out of the house and claims the soul of Viola. |
| 160 | * BigBad: He is the true mastermind behind the witch Ellen. Though Ellen is [[TheHeavy more active]], the Demon is the corruptive force that made her what she is and manipulates the plot to get a chance to eat [[HeroAntagonist Viola]]'s soul. |
| 161 | * BreakHerByTalking: Does this to Ellen in the prequel, telling her that no one truly loves her, and one later to Viola, mocking her for her naivety in trusting Ellen and detailing how the two of them have screwed Viola over. |
| 162 | * CaptainObvious: At one point, he says, "By the way, this is a witch's house. You know that, right?" To Ellen, the witch who owns the house. |
| 163 | * CatchPhrase: "Yo." |
| 164 | * CatsAreMean: Seemingly averted, as he follows the protagonist into the witch's house and provides friendly chatter (in addition to allowing her to save). While he comes off as aloof at times, he seems genuinely concerned about her. In both endings, he appears before Viola and disappears with her. And then played straight when he's revealed to be possessed by the demon that gave Ellen her powers and was most likely claiming poor Viola's soul as another victim. |
| 165 | * CatsAreSnarkers: At the half-way point in the game: "By the way, you know that this is a witch's house, right? Right." The line is even more snarky given that the girl we are playing as ''is'' the witch, in Viola's body. |
| 166 | * TheCorrupter: He took Ellen in to [[{{Tykebomb}} mold her into a killing machine]] and slowly breaks down her reservations with it, turning her into a violent {{misanthrope|Supreme}}. |
| 167 | * DealWithTheDevil: He struck one with the neglected and abused Ellen, giving her magical powers and a home in exchange for souls. Thankfully for Ellen, 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. |
| 168 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Demon's manipulation of Ellen has distinct predatory undertones- taking a broken little girl with no social contacts, inserting himself as her only source of education, and convincing her she needs to 'receive' people in her house for his benefit lest he allow her illness to fester bears a disturbing allegory to a pimp and child prostitute. |
| 169 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: He seems to be just the savepoint character, but is in fact the demon who gave Ellen her powers. |
| 170 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zig-zagged but ultimately subverted. His behavior in game and in the prequel, ''the Diary of Ellen'', suggests that he ''does'' seem to hold some genuine affection for Ellen, such as teaching her, answering her questions, tolerating her nasty attitude towards his fellow Demon, the Crow (which delivers medicine for Ellen mind you) and himself, defending her against the Crow Demon when he reads her diary. But other scenes, such as when he [[BreakHerByTalking breaks her by talking]], make it clear he sees her as a means to his own ends, and he outright admits at one point that he does not care whether she lives or dies. He ''does'' help her in the house by acting as a savepoint for Ellen and resetting each death. While he lets her live her new life with Viola's body, he thinks that will be only temporary and when this happens, he will not acknowledge her. |
| 171 | -->'''Black Cat:''' ''But I'm sorry Ellen. When that happens, I just don't feel like I will be as interested in you as I used to be...'' |
| 172 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. He mentions that it was mean of Ellen to cut up the white flower on the roof. Yes, the demon who eats the souls of children thought the callousness of that act was worth pointing out. However, he indicates that he was just [[CatsAreSnarkers being a smartass]]. It's also indicated that he found the sheer sadism his previous witch (now the house) displayed during her murders rather off-putting, but as he never tries to rein in her or Ellen's cruelty, it doesn't seem to really bother him. |
| 173 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A tiny, seemingly innocent cat who can be adorable sometimes. He is also the demon who gave Ellen her powers, manipulating her to his whim, and eats the souls of children. |
| 174 | * {{Familiar}}: Inverted, as he is the master of the witch Ellen. He specifically seeks out girls and makes contracts with them, making him the boss of the relationship. |
| 175 | * FauxAffablyEvil: The Demon has loyalty to none save his own hunger for souls and even though he can feign kindness to Ellen and others--usually by adapting a goofy, laidback demeanor--he manipulates everyone around him for his own greedy purpose. He even drops the charade to Ellen occasionally, callously telling her she'll never be loved and doesn't really seem to care for her beyond grooming a witch to feed him souls. |
| 176 | * GreaterScopeVillain: While Ellen is responsible for sacrificing an untold number of innocent children and stealing Viola's body, none of that would've happened without the Black Cat as he's the one who gave Ellen her powers. He manipulates her into killing people so that he can devour their souls. |
| 177 | * ItAmusedMe: At the beginning, he says that he's following Ellen around for laughs. |
| 178 | * {{Jerkass}}: Beneath his friendly demeanor, he's really a self-serving monster who cares for no one. He constantly emotionally abuses Ellen and belittles and insults the hard-working cook. |
| 179 | * JustifiedSavePoint: Not stated outright, but since the cat is actually a powerful demon, it makes sense he could return the Witch from the grave. |
| 180 | * KarmaHoudini: Just like Ellen, the Black Cat gets off scot-free in the end, receiving no punishment for the many souls he devoured, including Viola's own in the end. |
| 181 | * KickTheDog: At one point in the prequel, he shows Ellen the scent of her mother's perfume to remind Ellen of her ParentalAbandonment just to keep her in line. |
| 182 | * LaughablyEvil: He's pretty goofy, casual, [[CatsAreSnarkers snarky]], and entertaining for a demon who's devoured countless souls. |
| 183 | * TheManInFrontOfTheMan: He initially appears to be a {{familiar}} and sidekick to Ellen, but is actually the one who took Ellen in and made her who she is, and came up with the body-switching plan. ''The Diary of Ellen'' goes into more detail on this, showing how he turns her from a scared little girl with some violent tendencies into a depraved WickedWitch. |
| 184 | * NobodyHereButUsStatues: He goes in a room full of cat statues on pedestals, stands on top of an empty pedestal, and tries to convince Ellen he is a statue [[ItAmusedMe for laughs]]. |
| 185 | * NonActionBigBad: For all of his magical abilities, the Demon states he needs Ellen to do the killing for him and it's not until after they're dead that he can consume their souls. |
| 186 | * NoNeedForNames: He is only ever called 'Black Cat' and 'Demon'. He tells Ellen in the prequel novel and manga that, as a demon, he does not really have or need a name. |
| 187 | * OffscreenTeleportation: Every time Ellen progresses through the house, she finds the cat. He never seems to move from his spot, but he changes location to wherever she might need to save. Justified as he is a demon. Also played for laughs when he [[NobodyHereButUsStatues poses as a cat statue]]. |
| 188 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: The demon seems to be the possessing kind, prefers the body of a cat, eats the souls of children, and mentions that even though it doesn't have a physical form, that doesn't make it immortal. |
| 189 | * 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. He also [[AbusiveDad abused her to hell and back]]. |
| 190 | * SoulEating: His purpose in having his witches kill people is to consume their souls. |
| 191 | * TheSvengali: A mix of this and EvilMentor to Ellen in her backstory but he only cares primarily about consuming souls, not Ellen's interests. Interestingly, he does hold up his end of the contract to Ellen by giving her the body-switching spell and even when she is in Viola's body (and thus technically no longer contracted or useful to him), he allows her to escape the house and live her new life. But he predicts that Ellen can never be truly happy with her new life and can imagine her return to her old lifestyle. And when this arrives, he will ignore her. |
| 192 | * UngratefulBastard: Averted. He will stay true to his contract no matter what. As long as Ellen feed him souls, he will honor his end of the contract, by giving her the body-changing spell. Helping Ellen after the spell was cast seems to be a bonus and he didn't particularly care about the outcome. |
| 193 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted towards Ellen, when she finally gets Viola's body (and thus, no longer useful to him as her powers are linked to her original body) and thus fulfilling his side of the contract, he doesn't mind her escaping the house (and he does help her in a way) and living her new life. |
| 194 | * WalkingSpoiler: Though seemingly an innocuous savepoint character, he is actually the demon who gave Ellen her powers and the true main villain. |
| 195 | * WouldHurtAChild: He devours the souls of children as well as adults, and puts them through the death traps in the house. He also emotionally abuses Ellen to make her into a more willing witch. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:The Witch]] |
| 199 | !The House |
| 200 | ->''"COME TO MY ROOM"'' |
| 201 | |
| 202 | The titular Witch's House that belongs to Ellen. Though Viola uses the House to try to kill Ellen, the House sometimes spawns notes on the walls giving you hints on how to proceed through it. In the Diary of Ellen, we learn that the House was created by a spell the Black Cat knows, and his previous Witch loved it so much that her wish was to become the spell that summoned it, turning her into the house itself. |
| 203 | ---- |
| 204 | * AbusiveMom: To a lesser extent than the Demon, as unlike him she genuinely seems to care for Ellen, but she still helps the Demon in [[{{Tykebomb}} molding Ellen into a mass murderer]]. |
| 205 | * AffablyEvil: She acts as a caring mother to Ellen, never once directly harming her like the Demon does. |
| 206 | * AlienGeometries: The House is capable of having much more space within it than it looks outside. It's even big enough to house an indoor garden on it's own, and can change pathways however it's owner likes. When Ellen is escaping the house, it becomes a whole lot shorter and easier to navigate, implying it's going back to it's original form. |
| 207 | * AstralProjection: In the Extra Mode of the MV remake, if you return to the house after escaping, she will manifest as a ghost to wave goodbye to Ellen before disappearing. |
| 208 | * CoolHouse: It's a Witch's House with an in-house museum, library that picks out the right books for the owner, an indoor garden that appears to be a courtyard, and very lovely furnishings all around. |
| 209 | * TheDragon: She works for the Black Cat Demon as his prior witch. |
| 210 | * EldritchLocation: It's a house with impossible geometries inside and that can kill you in many ways. |
| 211 | * EnfantTerrible: Her AstralProjection in the Extra Mode of the MV remake reveals she was a little girl when she became the house. |
| 212 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: After you hack off a teddy bear's limbs so it can fit in a basket, her note changes to a shocked "...", clearly surprised by your methods. |
| 213 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: One would be amazed at the number of ways a house and the things inside of it can kill you. |
| 214 | * GeniusLoci: As the Previous Witch inhabits the house and is the core of it, she often does things for Ellen like picking out books in the Library that are the right difficulty for her to read, changing the passage ways so she can go through the house easier, and finding numerous ways to kill people inside it. |
| 215 | * HiveQueen: She essentially controls the spirits inside her. |
| 216 | * MissionControl: She provides the help and hints Ellen gets throughout the place. |
| 217 | * MoralityPet: She's basically the only person Ellen loves other than herself. |
| 218 | * NoNameGiven: It's never revealed what her name was when she was a human. |
| 219 | * ParentalSubstitute: She is one of them to Ellen, alongside the Cat, serving as the surrogate mother to his surrogate father. |
| 220 | * PetTheDog: She has some moments that show she cares for Ellen. In the Diary of Ellen, when Ellen learns that witches can suffer DeathByDespair, and the Cat [[KickTheDog shows her one object that immediately gives Ellen despair]] (the scent of her mother's perfume the night that she was leaving her), Ellen throws the bottle at the wall and proceeds to bawl her eyes out. The House cradles her in her bed. She also protects Ellen from Viola at one point when Viola breaks through the window. |
| 221 | * PlaceOfPower: A literal example. While within the House, Ellen is completely healthy and immune to the effects of her sickness (though they keep progressing without her knowledge), and she is capable of using magic, even from a distance outside of the house. Once she physically steps outside of it, she immediately loses all her powers beyond her immortality as a witch and regains all the symptoms of her sickness. |
| 222 | * PredecessorVillain: To Ellen. The house was once the Witch for the Black Cat before she became the spell that summoned the house and Ellen became the new witch, and she killed several people herself. She is still around, however, unlike most examples. |
| 223 | * {{Sadist}}: The prequel reveals that she was incredibly sadistic with her killings, to the point that even the Black Cat Demon, while not having any moral objections, found her a bit off-putting. This continues after she becomes the house, taking great joy in using her traps to kill people. |
| 224 | * SolveTheSoupCans: Justified. Since the House is an EldritchLocation, one of the rules is that the house doesn't use normal keys, so other things must serve in it's place to unlock doors there. Such "keys" include putting a torso of a bear into a basket, drinking/putting a key into poisoned soup, releasing a golden butterfly, hitting a pumpkin multiple times, and also ordering dolls by their colors on colored pedestals to get to the indoor garden and to the Witch's Room when you have the lost doll. |
| 225 | * SapientHouse: The titular house is being possessed by the spirit of current witch Ellen's predecessor and controls the spirits in the house while aiding [[VillainProtagonist Ellen]] in escaping. |
| 226 | * SpiritAdvisor: The notes found all over the house is the House itself communicating to Ellen and helping her get through it. |
| 227 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Ellen. Even a body swap will not stop her from recognizing her true master, and she helps Ellen get through the place. |
| 228 | * WalkingSpoiler: The House is not only [[GeniusLoci alive]], but also the PredecessorVillain to Ellen. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | !Minor Characters |
| 232 | [[folder:Chef]] |
| 233 | ->''"A hand is exactly what I needed"'' |
| 234 | |
| 235 | An invisible character, who may help you if you "lend a hand". |
| 236 | ---- |
| 237 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the Extra mode of the MV remake, instead of thanking you for the severed teddy bear limbs and giving you a key, he tells you they are filthy and would prefer your hands before chasing you and trying to kill you. Also, when you return to the kitchen and visit the bone room, he has kidnapped one of the other invisible residents of the house and will come into the room and kill them (and you if he sees you). |
| 238 | * AffablyEvil: Despite being the servant of a WickedWitch, he seems like a nice guy. If you give him severed teddy bear limbs, he will thank you and give you a key. |
| 239 | * AllThereInTheManual: The Diary Of Ellen reveals that he is the ghost of one of the victims of Ellen's predecessor, and that he needs severed hands to help make medicine for Ellen's illness. |
| 240 | * TheDitz: In the Diary of Ellen, he's noted to be rather simpleminded and clumsy, though he is still a good chef. |
| 241 | * EvilChef: Zigzagged. He will cut off your hand and kill you if you agree to lend a hand, but this is likely just because he is LiteralMinded. If you give him the teddy bear limbs, he will thank you and give you a key. While he does work for Ellen, the prequel depicts him as a PunchClockVillain who never directly aided her in her evil deeds, having done nothing but make her meals and bring her medicine. The one time he does something truly evil of his own volition in the original game is when he tries to kill her after she discovers the skeletons in the cellar. The Extra Mode of the MV remake plays this straight due to AdaptationalVillainy. |
| 242 | * FauxAffablyEvil: In the Extra mode of the MV remake due to AdaptationalVillainy. |
| 243 | * LiteralMinded: If you agree to "lend a hand", he will cut your right hand off and kill you. You have to give him dismembered teddy bear limbs. |
| 244 | * LockedOutofTheLoop: He apparently did not get the memo that Ellen had switched bodies with Viola. |
| 245 | * PunchClockVillain: The original game and the prequel novel show that he just cooked meals for Ellen and brought her medicine made from the hands of her victims. He wouldn't harm someone himself unless he thought they were okay with it or they discovered that he had skeletons in the cellar. The Extra Mode averts this by having him actively hunt down others without their consent, and use other invisible residents of the house for their hands. |
| 246 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Out of the four villains, he is the only one who is not genuinely evil, being an AffablyEvil PunchClockVillain. Subverted in the MV remake's Extra Mode. |
| 247 | * WalkingSpoiler: Not from a story standpoint, but from a gameplay standpoint, as there are many surprises he can kill you with. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Librarian]] |
| 251 | ->''Ah. You're giving me this? Thank you!'' |
| 252 | |
| 253 | An invisible entity that helps you by giving you the Book of Death in exchange for the rope to 'tie' the books, which you later find out that he commits suicide by hanging himself. The prequel reveals that he is Ellen's first friend and victim, a young illiterate boy. |
| 254 | ---- |
| 255 | * CuteBookworm: Even though he's illiterate, he's interested in books. |
| 256 | * DrivenToSuicide: In the game he was DeadToBeginWith, but he is the invisible person in the library. He is seen sorting books and needs something to tie them together. After "Viola" gives him a rope to solve a puzzle, he thanks her. If she backtracks to the room after that, she'll find that he tied the rope into a noose and killed himself. |
| 257 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: Despite Ellen's claims that she doesn't know what is love and how it feels to be loved, the light novel implies that she might had feelings for him and she's shown blushing around him in the manga. By the time of the game, however, she has clearly abandoned such feelings. |
| 258 | * TheFaceless: He's invisible in the game. The light novel shows Ellen can see him just fine and he's shown as a silhouette in the manga. |
| 259 | * {{Keet}}: He's very smiley and friendly. |
| 260 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He dragged Ellen outside to play, but after getting out of the house, Ellen returns to her original sick body, disgusting him. He came back later to make amends, but Ellen simply kills him because she doesn't believe she can have real friends, making him the first in a long line of victims she gives the house. The manga implies the Black Cat Demon influenced things to turn out that way. |
| 261 | * NoNameGiven: Is never named in the game or the prequel novel. |
| 262 | * OnlyFriend: To Ellen, until he commits the mistake of panicking after seeing her true sick body, and she kills him. |
| 263 | * PosthumousCharacter: Retroactively revealed to be such. He is introduced in the game simply as the invisible person in the library that is DrivenToSuicide, but the novel reveals who he is. |
| 264 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Inverted with Ellen, with the boy as the Energetic Guy to her Savvy Girl. |
| 265 | * SweetTooth: Like Ellen. |
| 266 | * WalkingSpoiler: Knowing who he really is spoils a portion of Ellen's backstory, and that she is actually the Witch. |
| 267 | * TheWallsAreClosingIn: The poor kid dies crushed between two walls. Which means that in the game, the pool of blood in the dark room is his blood. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Viola's Father]] |
| 271 | ->''"Viola?! Are you safe?! Are you hurt anywhere?"'' |
| 272 | |
| 273 | A hunter, who is Viola's only surviving family left after the death of her mother. He writes a letter to her just before the beginning of the game, which can be found in two parts at the start and at the end. |
| 274 | ---- |
| 275 | * BigDamnHero: In the normal ending, Viola's father arrives and blasts the witch to bits with his shotgun when it follows Viola out of the house. Subverted by the true ending; [[OffingTheOffspring he unknowingly killed his daughter]] and took the witch home in her place. |
| 276 | * DontGoIntoTheWoods: His letter says not to go into the forest, though it's actually the way out. |
| 277 | * GoodParents: From what's seen of him, he genuinely cares about his daughter Viola and the two are close. |
| 278 | * PapaWolf: Given a cruel twist. He kills the witch to protect his daughter, completely unaware that the witch ''[[GrandTheftMe is]]'' his daughter. |
| 279 | * ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Averted. In the remake, it's made clearer that her father failing to recognize her is what finally pushed Viola into fatal despair. |
| 280 | * UnnamedParent: The game never gives him a name other than "Viola's father". The picture gallery states that his name is Travis. |
| 281 | * WalkingSpoiler: He only appears in the endings, and his role is to unknowingly [[OffingTheOffspring kill his daughter]]. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Ellen's mother]] |
| 285 | ->''My dear Ellen...'' |
| 286 | |
| 287 | A woman who seems to actually love Ellen, unlike her father, but neglects her as much as he does. She tries to leave the family for a rich man, driving Ellen to kill her. |
| 288 | ---- |
| 289 | * AssholeVictim: Was stabbed to death by Ellen after trying to abandon her and the family for a rich man. |
| 290 | * BrokenPedestal: Ellen's realization that her mother was going to start a new life with a new man, her opinion of her shatters and never recovers. She kills her immediately after coming to the conclusion of what her mother's been up to. |
| 291 | * CameBackWrong: Lives on as a spirit within the witch's house, and is much more spiteful and malevolent than she ever was in life. |
| 292 | * ChekhovsGunman: She initially appears to just be another spirit, but turns out to be the mother of the witch herself, and partly responsible for her turn to evil. |
| 293 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: A negative example when Ellen’s mother loses her MotherlySidePlait and changes it into a PrimAndProperBun by the time Ellen sees her again, showing she was intending to leave her daughter and her husband for a much richer man. |
| 294 | * FeminineWomenCanCook: Worked as a baker in life. |
| 295 | * MissingMom: Disappeared suddenly when Ellen was 7. Ellen didn't understand why and tried to take care of herself the way her mother used to, thinking that her mother would come back after she saw that she didn't have to do as much work. Her mother did eventually sneak back into the house, but she didn't intend to meet her daughter or husband, and meant to leave for good. |
| 296 | * MotherlySidePlait: Subverted. She was shown to have worn her hair over her left shoulder just to emphasize her motherly side to Ellen, but it’s clear Ellen’s mother was fed up with her life tending to her terminally ill daughter and dealing with an abusive spouse she decided to leave. It didn’t end well for her. |
| 297 | * MyBelovedSmother: Was this towards Ellen... until she decided to ditch her and her husband for another man. |
| 298 | * ParentalAbandonment: She 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. This proves to be her downfall. |
| 299 | * PosthumousCharacter: Retroactively revealed to be such. She appears in the game simply as a spectral resident of the cell next to her husband's, but the novel reveals who she is. |
| 300 | * UnnamedParent: Is never named in the game or the prequel novel, though since she died hundreds of years earlier, it's possible Ellen simply doesn't remember her name. |
| 301 | * WalkingSpoiler: Her presence spoils Ellen's FreudianExcuse. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Ellen's father]] |
| 305 | ->''...Dammit! You gotta be shittin’ me!'' |
| 306 | |
| 307 | A drug and alcohol addict that neglects his ill daughter, but genuinely loves his wife. Is killed by Ellen after he discovers her murder of his wife. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * AlcoholicDad: He's addicted to alcohol and he's Ellen's dad. |
| 310 | * AssholeVictim: Was stabbed to death by Ellen for neglecting her all these years. |
| 311 | * BodyHorror: Mutated into a massive bony monster. |
| 312 | * ChekhovsGunman: He initially appears to be just another spirit, but turns out to be the father of the witch herself, and partly responsible for her turn to evil. |
| 313 | * DespairEventHorizon: When Ellen kills his wife. |
| 314 | * DrowningMySorrows: In addition to being an opium addict, he is also an alcoholic. |
| 315 | * FunctionalAddict: The drug in question is never explicitly named, but it's most likely opium. |
| 316 | * IconicItem: His jade smoking pipe. |
| 317 | * {{Jerkass}}: Towards Ellen, who he neglected. He did love his wife, but given her reactions toward his angry outbursts even she feared him. |
| 318 | * KarmicTransformation: As shown in the game, he became the savage beast he was to his daughter. |
| 319 | * ParentalNeglect: He simply pretended that Ellen didn't exist. |
| 320 | * PosthumousCharacter: Retroactively revealed to be such. He is introduced in the game simply as the smoking monster in the cell, but the novel reveals who he is. |
| 321 | * UnnamedParent: Is never named in the game or the prequel novel, though since he died hundreds of years earlier, it's possible Ellen simply doesn't remember his name. |
| 322 | * WalkingSpoiler: His presence spoils Ellen's FreudianExcuse. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !Pursuers |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Giant Teddy Bear]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | The first and only pursuer of the first floor in Normal Mode. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * BearsAreBadNews: It is a huge bear and the first pursuits of the game. |
| 332 | * ItsPersonal: It is implied to be chasing Ellen as revenge for her cutting the limbs off the smaller teddy bear. |
| 333 | * KillerTeddyBear: It is a giant teddy bear that tries to squash you. |
| 334 | * SquashedFlat: Its method of killing you, if caught. |
| 335 | * WarmupBoss: It is the first chaser in the game. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Giant Spider]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | One of the two pursuers of the second floor. It's {{color blind|Confusion}} and will [[OffWithHerHead bite off Viola's head]] if you try to leave the room while its web is empty. |
| 341 | ---- |
| 342 | * DropInNemesis: How it appears if you don't replace the Butterfly. Also how it appears even replacing the butterfly in Extra Mode. |
| 343 | * GiantSpider: It's a huge spider that hides in the second floor and has a butterfly captured. |
| 344 | * OffWithHerHead: It decapitates Ellen if it happens to catch her. |
| 345 | * SchmuckBait: Go ahead, take the butterfly without replacing it. Go ahead, backtrack to its room after triggering it in extra mode. Both times, it bites your head off. |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Bloody Skull]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | One of the two pursueers of the second floor. |
| 351 | ---- |
| 352 | * SealedEvilInACan: Minor variation, as it is trapped inside a museum glass pane before it breaks out. |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:Giant Snake]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | A giant snake living in one of the rooms in the third floor. |
| 358 | ---- |
| 359 | * AscendedExtra: Becomes a pursuer in the third floor after getting the music sheets in Extra Mode. |
| 360 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: In Extra Mode, it will try again later on to kill you even after you fed it a frog. Ungrateful pest. |
| 361 | * NeckSnap: How it kills you. |
| 362 | * SnakesAreSinister: It is a giant snake that can kill you. |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:Frog]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | A frog that is found in one of the rooms on the third floor. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His three tadpole children loved him. |
| 370 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: On the receiving end of this. He does nothing but help you after you meet him, and you repay him by feeding him to the snake. |
| 371 | * FurryConfusion: He doesn't appear to be capable of human speech, even though his children are. |
| 372 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: His ghost can be seen just as you leave the snake room. If you return to the room where you found him after feeding him to the snake and examine the note on the wall, his spirit will appear in the form of a giant right hand and crush you to death as revenge for killing him. |
| 373 | * ParentalAbandonment: Considering he's found far away from where his children are later discovered. His analysis states that he got lost and is trying to find his way back home. |
| 374 | * SacrificialLamb: You are forced to feed him to the giant snake. |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Mona-Lisa Portrait]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | A portrait of Mona Lisa that pursues the player after taking the Music Sheets. |
| 380 | ---- |
| 381 | * AndIMustScream: Its method of killing Ellen is by putting her inside a painting. It's actually subverted because it actually appears to kill her instead of imprisoning her in the MV remake, as Ellen's eyes turn bloody afterward. |
| 382 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Go ahead and try to touch it while being chased by the Toy Soldier. |
| 383 | * SlasherSmile: Displays when it catches you. |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Toy Soldier]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | A seemingly ordinary toy soldier carrying a [[BlatantLies fake]] gun. Becomes and replaces the Portrait as the pursuer in the fourth floor. |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | [[/folder]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[folder:Giant Skull]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | One of the pursuers of the fifth floor. It is unique from the other pursuers that you encounter it twice. |
| 395 | ---- |
| 396 | * MesACrowd: If you return to the hallway where you encountered it later on, it and a second Giant Skull will appear at both ends and kill you. In Extra Mode, if you return to the skull room to escape it, many of the skulls in there will turn into Giant Skulls and kill you. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Tadpoles]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | Three tadpoles you can encounter on the fifth floor. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | * RedHerring: You are NOT supposed to talk to them like you may first think. |
| 404 | * SacrificialLamb: You have to kill them to progress. Averted in Extra Mode. |
| 405 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In Extra Mode, they survive the pond being contaminated by blood, and will instantly kill you if you talk to them afterward. |
| 406 | * YouKilledMyFather: Invoked by them. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Red Eyes]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | One of the (many) pursuers of the fifth floor. |
| 412 | ---- |
| 413 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: They likely represent how Ellen's eyes were gouged out. |
| 414 | * ImMelting: How it kills you, if caught. |
| 415 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: They're dangerous and they have red sclera. |
| 416 | * SuperPersistentPredator: When you escape it, RUN. Subverted that you can actually exit before they swarm you. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
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