History VideoGame / Deracine

** You can find a note about [[spoiler:Margareta having drowned herself]] in the river. This sets up the reveal that the light Rosza saw on the dock wasn't just any [[spoiler:red ring, but ''Margareta'''s body]].

* OrphanageOfFear: Played with. At the beginning of the game, everything seems happy with the orphans at the boarding school, aside from some implications about Rosza's leg. Once you start picking up the StoryBreadcrumbs, there's an implication that [[spoiler:the headmaster has allegiance to some cult using faeries for sinister experiments, and Yuliya might have been tricked into luring you there for something nefarious]]. As you finish putting together the pieces, however, you learn that [[spoiler:the headmaster left that past behind, and his intentions with the boarding school were to raise the children properly and to make sure they never even had to know about those horrors]].

* SnowMeansDeath: Rosza was wounded during a thunderstorm, but it's when the children go out into the ''snow'' that [[spoiler:most of them are killed by the Evil Faerie]].

** In Robb's Forest, the Kind Faerie sees movement in the form of [[spoiler:the Evil Faerie, as its peering through a window at Marie.]] Later on, Rosza enters the building in a panic, and as Marie tries to calm her down, [[spoiler:neither realize that Rosza left the door open. The Evil Faerie enters and takes the girls' lives, with the Kind Faerie powerless to stop it.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Déraciné'' is one to ''VideoGame/EchoNight''. Not only does it retain the overarching, first person adventure-styled gameplay revolving around a hub setting, but it also involves echoes of the past, time travel, and magical red and blue stones (this time on rings). The [[spoiler:Evil Faerie stabbing people with a Golden Wand to empower their red ring]] is highly reminiscent of the red stone dagger being used to kill and change destiny in Echo Night. As Echo Night was already a ThematicSeries that had slightly different rules in each installment to begin with, the only major theme it breaks is that you aren't playing a character named Richard Osmond, and is otherwise a sequel in all ''but'' name.

* HappilyAdopted: The children all seem to love their life at the boarding school, getting along with both the headmaster and each other perfectly.

* IconicItem: Each of the children has an item that is associated with them throughout the game. Marie has a cloth, Nils has his glasses, Herman has his hat, and Rosza has her hair ribbons. Getting used to these gives meaning when you eventually find [[spoiler:them abandoned]] late in the game.

* SignatureInstrument: Each of the children have one, aside from Yuliya who sings. Lorinc plays the piano, Marie plays the violin, Herman plays the bassoon, Nils plays the clarinet, and Rosza plays the triangle.

* {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. The children's desire to [[spoiler:save Yuliya no matter what]] makes it impossible for you to [[spoiler:save them from the Evil Faerie]], as no matter how you try to sabotage their attempt or dissuade them, they find a new way to [[spoiler:set out on their doomed journey]]. [[spoiler:Lorinc]] openly recognizes in hindsight that their actions were immature recklessness and not the heroic persistence they had convinced themselves it was.

* {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. The children's desire to [[spoiler:save Yuliya no matter what]] makes it impossible for you to [[spoiler:save them from the Evil Faerie]], as no matter how you try to sabotage their attempt or dissuade them, they find a new way to [[spoiler:set out on their doomed journey]].

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Humans can become Faeries (who are invisible, and partially incorporeal) after dying.

* WasOnceAMan: All faeries seen in the game were once human. The Evil Faerie was presumably one of the Rhonian scholars, the Wicked Faerie was [[spoiler:Yuliya]], and you, the Kind Faerie, were [[spoiler:the infant Alexis]].

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Faeries are invisible fey who were originally human (the ones we see in the game, at least). Every faerie carries a blue ring of time, and a red ring of life. Using a golden wand, they can drain the life from humans and use it to travel in time. However, since most faeries have regrets from their human lives, they're drawn to kill people, so that they might undo those mistakes. Three faeries are seen in game:

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Faeries can travel in time by using time taken from a living being. The time can also be used to resurrect the dead. It's implied that the time travel is the main reason for people to become faeries, as they can undo their past mistakes.

You are the Kind Fairie, a fairie in the countryside, where a group of young children are raised by the headmaster of an old boarding school. One of these children, a girl named Yuliya, can talk to faeries, and the Kind Fairie has recently arrived at the school. The Kind Faerie goes around the school, helping and playing with the children, but it soon becomes apparent that there is something odd about the inhabitants of this school. The headmaster seems obsessed with the past, trying to undo some mistake he made.. One of the children has a wounded leg, said to have been hurt several months ago and have yet to recover, and no-one except the Kind Faerie seems to acknowledge Yuliya's presence.