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The Coven
General
Left-to-right: Hope, Joy, and Faith.
A trio of witches who are despised in the school, but while offscreen, fight big bads (and the SUN ITSELF
) and save the world.The group's main voice, Joy, is a main love interest in Monster Camp.
- Alliterative Name:
- Her Monster Camp Profile reveals that their spokeswoman's full name is Joy Johnson-Johjima.note
- Second Term (and
Word of God via Tumblr) also gives Faith's full name as Faith Fernández. - Hope's full name is given as Hope Halko in the Student Yearbook that's available as physical merchandise, and in Monster Roadtrip.
- Her Monster Camp Profile
- Alternate Self: It's mentioned that in "season 3" they travelled to an alternate dimension and met evil versions of themselves.
- Ambiguously Human: By far the most human characters in the school. But they're never referred to as humans, and aren't treated with the Fantastic Racism others have for humans. The displeasure people have about the Coven comes generally because they find them annoying and find saving the world to be a pain, hating to be involved in their adventures.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Hope's secret route gives some exposition that the members of the Coven are intended to be this to their respective namesakes. Hope especially so, as the First Hope's death managed to shatter the universe because of the lack of hope. However, it's implied that if Joy and Faith were to die they could more easily be replaced.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: A trio composed of three girls: a tall, slim one (Faith); a very short one with a slight build (Hope); and a markedly curvy one of average height (Joy).
- Butt-Monkey: Most of the time, they end up being the joke for you and your romantic options.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: It's subtle, but each member of the Coven has a specific color outside of their typical black. Joy's eyes and nails are green, Hope's eyes, nails and choker are red, and Faith's glasses, nails, and phone are blue.
- Covert Pervert: One event has you breaking into their house and discovering a stash of sex toys, which you immediately swear to forget. On Polly's "WILKINSON" route, they're the ones who tell you the supplies for the act, on the condition that you never tell anyone. They even give you the marbles!
- Dark Is Not Evil: In fact, they seem to be the least evil members of the school, down to refusing to do drugs, despite being witches clad in black from top to bottom. This seems to be why everyone else thinks they're so annoying: they're actually goal-oriented and constantly trying to save the world while the rest of the students at the school are constantly doing stupid teenage stunts and refusing to take anything seriously.
- The Dividual: They aren't even referred to by their respective names most of the time, they are just referred to as a unit and The Coven. With the exception of events relating to a specific member or their appearance in the second Shopkeeper route-specific event, they always appear as a single entity. In a rare case of this trope, there are three of them rather than two. There's even an event where Damian and Polly admit they didn't know the individual girls even have names.
- It could be a ruse on their parts, however. Second Term reveals that Damian has a crush on Hope and that Polly and Faith regularly engage in casual sex.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Second Term reveals that a few seasons ago the Coven dealt with evil versions of themselves from another universe, though apparently the Evil Hope betrayed her allies and became good again. This comes up when Faith is threatened by Evil Faith, who desires to kill her counterpart and take her place.
- Evil Twin: Polly accuses them of being this to her, Vera and Miranda. For a twist of irony, in the Halloween event, the trio changed into the default costumes of Polly, Vera, and Miranda. And then there's Evil Faith, who turns up in Second Term
- Expy: They're clearly meant to be a reference to Urban Fantasy TV dramas that became popularized from the 1990s to the 2000s, such as Supernatural or Teen Wolf but especially the Halliwell Sisters from Charmed and the Scoobies from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A great deal of their dialogue has them outwardly talking about events in their lives like the fandom for the genre talks about those shows - referring to events in their lives as Seasons and Arcs and seasonal Big Bads.
- Genre Refugee: From an Urban Fantasy TV drama ala Charmed (1998) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Goth Girls Know Magic: As expected from a modern depiction of witches.
- Hero Antagonist: They seem to have plans to defeat some unseen Big Bad together, but all romanceable options, especially Vera, tend to be quite mean to them and dislike them. Polly thinks they are their Evil Counterpart. They also appear to be quite the moral characters compared to others and refuse to do drugs.
- Hero of Another Story: Their main gag and gimmick. Apparently, they are living an entirely different story, in another medium even (as in, they are in a TV series, you are in a visual novel). Trying to haunt them with the ghost sheet will cause them to mistake you for the minion of Queen Nehelenia, the Big Bad of their next season.
- Info Dump: Hope's route has one of these, which expounds a great deal on the lore of the Coven's storyline in general, and Hope in particular. The details revealed are:
- That back in season 1 the Coven's leader was a woman named Grace, who dies in the season finale which forced Joy to become the new leader.
- Season 3 was considered the most grim season to date due to the death of the First Hope, which caused reality to start unravelling. While Faith and Joy searched The Multiverse for a way to fix things, they ended up in a dimension where the Coven was evil, except for Hope, who betrayed her allies and returned to the main universe as the Second Hope, which fixed things.
- Season 4 dealt with Joy and Faith feeling that they couldn't trust the Second Hope while Hope befriended a Nightmare Pup. Liam (back then a villain named Angelus) fell in love with Joy despite being a villain and ended up joining them to fight the High Puppeteer who was manipulating Liam since season 2. However, the Unfaithful, a hitman hired back in the mid-season, ended up killing the Second Hope, who pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to save Faith. The Nightmare Pup absorbed Second Hope's soul to create a cocoon which the Third Hope emerged from.
- Seasons 5 to 6 had Liam join the Coven to make up for his past deeds and have a relationship with Joy, but things fell apart because of Joy's duties to be leader and Liam regretting his past deeds and the death of the Second Hope. He left the Coven after helping to defeat that season's Big Bad, the King in the Hill.
- In Season 7, the Big Bad was the Anti-Witch, an ancient witch who used the magic from before the Coven existed. Third Hope, who was a comic relief suffering from imposter syndrome and a inferiority complex, seemed to join the Anti-Witch but actually sacrificed herself to kill her. Using ancient magic they had researched, Joy and Faith created a vessel that contained pieces of the souls of the first three Hopes and through a Cosmic Retcon altered everyone's memories to make them think the Fourth Hope was the original.
- Meaningful Name: A trio called Hope, Joy, and Faith turns out to be the only moral characters in the game, fittingly.
- Medium Blending: An In-Universe example. It's acknowledged that everything else is happening in a video game, but the three of them are the heroines of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer-style TV show where they're constantly saving the world from demons, and know it.
- One of Us: It's revealed that they have a TV Tropes page on them in-universe.
- Power Trio: In Hope's route in Second Term, it's explained that the Coven is bound by timeless and ancient rules to be a trio like the Triple Goddess.
- Running Gag: They always have a Big Bad to defeat; it's a different one every time they show up.
- Secret Character: All of them. Joy has a secret ending in the base game, with Hope and Faith getting their own secret routes in Second Term.
- Super Gullible: If someone goes along with their Fantasy series setting, they can be easily fooled. One event has the player fabricating an ancient scroll to make them help Damien, and the reason they fight the SUN ITSELF in Second Term is because Damien and the player convinced them it was evil in his "Punch the Sun" route. They also easily believe whenever someone says they're doing good instead of evil as long as their explanation fits into their narrative.
- Theme Naming: They're named after the three theological virtues; Faith, Hope and Joy* .
- We Used to Be Friends: With Liam. He used to be their Non-Human Sidekick, which they keep saying is something a coven needs, but he eventually got bored and turned his back on them, which the Coven seems still bitter about. Understandable that they would have hard feelings, as Second Term reveals that he didn't just get bored of them after all - rather, he was directly responsible for the death of the Second Hope, the guilt of which lead him to leave (though amicably enough to assist in a season finale).
- Witch Classic: A modern version of this, more related to Wiccans than the old witches, but still there. They are a group of three, seem associated with sisterhood and femininity, and are dressed in all black.
Joy Johnson-Johjima
Faith Fernández
Voiced by: Danielle McRae
The most level-headed member of the Coven.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Evil Faith appears in her Second Term route, where it's mentioned that she's the Sole Survivor of her dimension and used a spell to escape before her universe was destroyed. She returns to try and kill Faith and take her place.
- Eyes Always Closed: Alongside her tinted glasses.
- Flat Character: She considers herself this during her route in Second Term, as she finds it hard to converse about topics other than Coven-related business...or cats.
- Friends with Benefits: As it turns out, despite their seemingly antagonistic relationship, Faith and Polly are this. In Faith's ending, she and the player also have this kind of relationship, which also involves occasional threesomes between them and Polly.
- Pungeon Master: Most of her voiced lines involve puns on her namesake, the word "faith."
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: During her Second Term route, she takes umbrage at Polly consistently referring to her as "Dark Polly", not because of being misidentified as an Evil Twin (the most logical assumption, considering Faith's actual evil alternate dimension counterpart is present), but because it could be interpreted as racist due to Faith being a dark-skinned blond.
- Western Zodiac: Faith is a literal example, having an Evil Twin and being a Gemini.
Hope Halko
Click here to see original Hope
Click here to see the second Hope
Click here to see the third Hope
Voiced by: Christine Marie Cabanos
The sassiest member of the Coven. She is bold, resolved, and unapologetically herself.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Her route in Second Term has Faith and Joy explain that while the Coven are bound by timeless universal rules, Hope is especially important as she's the embodiment of humanity's hope. When the First Hope died, reality itself almost fell apart due to a lack of a Hope and was only fixed by the arrival of the Second Hope from an alternate universe.
- Artificial Human: Both the Third and Fourth Hopes were this. The Third Hope actually suffered from imposter syndrome because of it, which is why Joy and Faith decided to not tell the current Hope that she was actually a vessel created by them.
- Composite Character: In her route in Second Term, you discover that she is actually the Fourth Hope and that she is made up of elements (and literal pieces of the souls) of the past three (plus a demonic beast the Second Hope befriended that sacrificed itself).
- Flying Postman: Runs her own courier business, likely as a reference to Kiki's Delivery Service.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow white twice on her route. It's when she's experiencing her Past-Life Memories.
- Heel–Face Turn: The Second Hope was actually from an alternate reality where the Coven was evil, but she betrayed Evil Joy and Evil Faith to return to the main universe and join the Coven.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Both Second Hope and Third Hope sacrificed their lives, the former to save Faith and the second to defeat a Big Bad.
- Info Dump: Her convoluted situation is explained in a very long backstory by Joy and Faith. The narrator even warns you that if you're not into lore, "you should just skip the fuck out of this." On the plus side, at the end of the Info Dump, you gain +8 to Smarts, which is one of the biggest stat boosts in the game.
- The Nth Doctor: There have apparently been three different Hopes in The Coven before the one we're familiar with. They even refer to them as The First/Second/Third Hope. Joy implies that this was caused by a change of actresses in their "show".
- Past-Life Memories: Her route has her experience this twice. The first time, she remembers the past Hopes taking pictures with Joy and Faith. The second time, she remembers the other three Hopes being killed.
- Talking to Themself: It's possible to convince Hope to connect with the previous Hopes (Through a WhatsApp group...somehow...) to reconcile her existential crisis in her special route.
