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  • King Genaro's life is revealed to be this. In chronological order: his father is killed by a witch, Hildyr, who then forces him to marry her or she will kill his One True Love. When he does, she puts a spell on him and rapes him for the sole purpose of conceiving a child to be the heir to the kingdom. Despite the circumstances, he loves the child anyway but is forced to keep his distance by the mother. He can only watch helplessly as his daughter is broken into an obedient doll for her mother and his kingdom is terrorized by the witch-queen. Things finally get better after Hildyr dies. He marries his One True Love and gets to heal his kingdom....until four years later when a coup happens that sometimes ends with Hildyr getting resurrected and him getting murdered. Fate does not like this guy.
  • Imagine spending years wishing that your Mother hadn't died as she was the one person that you thought loved you. Only to find out that Mother was actually ruining any chance you had at forming connections with other people, purposefully made you into a cold and paranoid person just so you would obey her every command, frequently stole your memories, and is dedicated to wiping out humans. Now you have an idea of what Lucette goes through during the game.
  • Fritz's curse. His father cursed him with the Red Riding Hood curse after he refused to go along with his plans to overthrow the royal family. This results in a Jekyll & Hyde situation where he experiences memory-loss whenever Varg takes over his body and he isn't even aware it's happening except for his and Waltz's routes. Even when he becomes aware of it, he slowly loses more and more control over his body, even when Lucette is in danger, and during his bad ending Varg takes over for good.
    • Further, Fritz's bad ending. Though Lucette hopes she can bring Fritz back, Varg sacrificing himself results in Fritz's body getting killed too means that even if Fritz was still in there he died when Varg did.

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