Fridge / BLACKSOULS

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Black Souls

Fridge Brilliance

• Leaf is always by your side, impossible to kill, always helps you out, forgives you even if you try to kill her, rape her, or sacrifice her to the Little Mermaid, and is the only character whose individual ending ends happily even if you get her ring. Not only is she Mary Sue, she's a Mary Sue!
• If you have Leaf's Ring in your inventory, all the individual character endings (except her own) get an extra scene at the end that turns them into Cruel Twist Endings (except Red's). Leaf is actually the goddess Mary Sue, and she hates happy endings. This is also why all the fairy tale characters are Grimmified, even compared to their original stories.

Black Souls 2

Fridge Brilliance

• Your SEN starts at 100, which is when everyone who speaks make sense and the world doesn't look horrifying (anymore than it is at least, depending on where you are). When it's 0, everyone speaking suddenly babbles unreadable text, characters on the screen are replaced by different and inhuman sprites, you see eyes on walls, the music stops playing, and all sorts of other weirdness happens. So, when SEN is 0, you're seeing Through the Eyes of Madness, right? Wrong—it doesn't explain specific 'low sanity' events like Red Hood conversing with you perfectly fine, where seeing her at SEN 100 instead has you seeing a monstrous wolf. Having a SEN of 100 is where Nyarlathotep succeeds at making you think reality is normal and rational, but 0 reveals Wonderland for its true form: Nyarlathotep's stage, and its characters being its fabricated actors.
  • So why is it called "SEN" if it doesn't indicate your sanity? "SEN" is just a misspelling of "SAN", right? Well, no. Internally, "SEN" is called "SENDAM"... which, when reversed, becomes "MADNES(S)". So it's not that you're sane when your SEN is high and insane when it's low. It's actually the exact opposite.
• When Lorde is fought as the Prince of Hell, he's not only got his multi-hit melee Helix Blade, he also has spells and items, at times throws an urn of oil before setting you on fire, and even shoots with a gun—tactics that mirror a well-balanced Player Character. After all, he's an author just like Grimm.
• The reveal that Grimm is a Composite Character of various authors is an allusion to The Brothers Grimm being compilers of fairy tales rather than the creators. This also leads to another brilliance that Leaf’s 'alterations' to the original stories represent the Grimmification the brothers had done too in real life.