Video Game / Do Us Part

"My Dear Wife,
I will provide for you, and in return, you are free to explore the estate.
All I ask is that you do not enter the room this key unlocks."

Do Us Part is an RPG Maker Explorer Horror game made for RPGMaker.net's "Twisted Fairy Tales" event, based on How the Devil Married Three Sisters. You play as the newly-wedded Margerita, wife of Lord Vollo, as she is alone in their estate one day. The only thing left on their bed is a key and a note from her husband asking her to not unlock the door that the key goes to.

Margerita, of course, decides not to follow his words, instead looking to investigate the mansion. In the process, she discovers just what Vollo has done to her missing sisters...

Warning: since the game is fairly short, spoilers are unmarked.

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This game contains examples of:

• Adaptational Karma: The Devil in the original story had his murders of the eldest sisters undone, but otherwise received no consequences beyond humiliation. Lord Vollo, being human (or so it seems), is instead murdered by the fusion of Luisa and Carlotta.
• Ambiguously Human: Lord Vollo seems to just be a normal human and does not display any supernatural powers, but is based on The Devil from a fairy tale, and seems to at least have connections to demonic forces such as nuns with Nightmare Faces and demonic-looking creatures in his Torture Cellar. It is never confirmed either way.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: Carlotta writes in her diary that Vollo basically forced her father to let him marry her because of how deeply indebted her father is to him.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Vollo turns out to have a talking cat locked in his cellar, who he imprisoned to keep the cat from stopping his murders.
• Big Bad: Lord Vollo is Margerita's seemingly-kind husband who murdered all his past wives, including her sisters, and is trying to hide his crimes from her.
• The Bluebeard: Lord Vollo has married at least seven women, and taken six of them to his Torture Cellar to be chained up and killed.
• Came Back Wrong: Downplayed. Margerita is able to bring back her sisters, Luisa and Carlotta... as a big, two-headed Monstrous Humanoid who seems to be incapable of speech. But they at least refrain from attacking Margerita, instead saving their wrath for their murderer Vollo.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: As in the original story, Vollo gives all his wives the same request to not open the door that his red key is for, and one of them writes that she decided to ignore this; it is heavily implied that this is what got them killed by going to the cellar and seeing the past victims of Vollo.
• Do with Him as You Will: Margerita, after bringing her sisters back to life as a Monstrous Humanoid, guides them to Lord Vollo so they can enact vengeance on their murderer.
• Expy: Lord Vollo is directly based off The Devil from the fairy tale How The Devil Married Three Sisters, who also took three sisters as wives and killed two of them before the third one stopped him.
• Human Resources: It’s implied by one book in Vollo's library “Anthropodermic Biblopagy and Other Uses for Excess Flesh”, that he uses the skin from his victims to, among other things, bind books.
• Inspiration Nod: A book with the fairy tale How The Devil Married Three Sisters (which this game is explicitly based off of) can be found in Vollo's library.
• Jump Scare: The opening scene ends with the nuns congratulating Margerita and Vollo on their marriage turning to the camera with ghastly faces and Black Eyes of Evil.
• Precision F-Strike: Margerita speaks almost the entire game in a formal and polite manner, only to drop a swear when confronting Vollo for her sisters’ murders:
  Let me reintroduce you to my sisters, you sick son of a bitch.
• Torture Cellar: Vollo has a big, red, maze-like dungeon beneath his estate where he keeps the remains of his prior wives.
• Til Murder Do Us Part: In addition to Lord Vollo making a habit of this, he himself dies at the hands of two of his resurrected wives, with his current wife helping out.