History VideoGame / ATimelessStory

* HeroesWantRedheads: Lysander was in love with his childhood friend Alys. There's also the his close relationship with Dellbert. Both are redheads.

* MurderInTheFamily: It turns out that [[spoiler: Alys' husband, Glenn, only married her because his own true love Eris was infertile, and murdered Alys once she bore him a child, since his true beloved had always been Eris. Worst of all is that Lysander could have had prevented it, as Alys sent him multiple letters warning of the changes in Glenn's mood, and asking him to get her out. However, because of his own unrequited love for her, he found it too painful to open the letters until it was too late.]]

''[[https://rpgmaker.net/games/8875/ A Timeless Story]]'' is a mystery RPG created by Midori Fragments with [[VideoGame/RPGMaker RPG Maker VX Ace]].

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* TheAgeless: Lysander.

* TheBluebeard: [[spoiler: Glenn]]

* ChekhovsGun: Alys's hairpin.

* FieryRedhead: Dellbert.

* LookBothWays: [[spoiler: How Dellbert died after trying to escape from an {{Yandere}} AxCrazy PapaWolf Lysander. In the GoodEnding, he's revived and his death is prevented.]]

* RedemptionQuest

** Averted in the prequel game AFigmentOfDiscord, which includes an ending in which Lysander saves Alys from Glenn. Also [[ShipSinking Dellbert is reborn as Lysander's son]]. But then, it's a ForegoneConclusion that Alys is murdered by Glenn and Eris in the end...
* WhoWantsToLiveForever

-->'''Glenn''': [[spoiler: ''My darling Eris, we don't need to hide any longer. I had the male heir I was longing for, the child you couldn't have given me. So the usefulness of my wife has come to an end. It will be easy enough to make it look like suicide, recently she does nothing more than mope around and write letters to one childhood friend of hers....'']]

** Averted in the prequel game AFigmentOfDiscord, which includes an ending in which Lysander saves Alys from Glenn. Also [[ShipSinking Dellbert is reborn as Lysander's son]]. But then, it's a ForegoneConclusion that Alys dies in the end...

** Averted in the prequel game AFigmentOfDiscord, which is set in an alternate continuity in which Lysander saves Alys from Glenn. Also [[ShipSinking Dellbert is reborn as Lysander's son]].

* ChekovsGun: Alys's hairpin.

* TheLostLenore: Lysander is incapable of moving on from Alys emotionally. Even when he starts over with Dell, he can only see him as Alys's identical grandson. The Good Ending shows that Lysander is moving on and can finally love Dell for who he is.

* TheLostLenore: Poor, poor Alys....

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Turns out Glenn only married Alys to have a heir, since his girlfriend Eris is sterile. When Alys's son was born, Glenn had no use for her anymore. Alys's son is raised by Glenn and Eris, but he soon realizes he's not related to Eris at all.]]

** [[AllJustADream Normal Ending]]: If Lysander doesn't retrieve Alys's hairpin, [[spoiler: he wakes up at his bed. He dismisses the whole adventure in the realm as a nightmare and decides to continue living his immortal life, but carrying the guilt of causing Alys and Dell's deaths.]]

* CelibateHero: Throughout the game, we don't see or hear of Lys showing anyone with romantic/sexual attraction. Turns out, he was in love with Alys. But after their friendship ended (beause of him), Alys marrying Glenn, and her murder, he didn't want to be with anyone else. [[spoiler: The Good Ending implies he's moving on with [[GayOption Dell]].]]

** Bad Ending: If Lysander doesn't destroy all the clocks, [[spoiler: he's confronted by the spirits of Alys and Dell. Alys blames him for her death, since it could have been prevented if Lysander would have opened her letters. Dell calls him selfish, insisting that he just sees him as a ReplacementGoldfish to Alys. Both decide to make him pay for his crimes and Lysander smiles as Alys and Dell stab him to death.]]
** Good Ending: If Lysander destroys all the clocks and retrieves Alys's hairclip, [[spoiler: he rewinds the Great Clock. He's sent to the time Dell is about to be run by a car, and pulls him on time. Lysander apologizes to him and confesses about his guilt for being unable to save Alys in the past. Dell understands and continues to live with him. The final scene features Lysander visiting Alys's grave and finally accepting his immortality.]]

** Bad Ending: If Lysander doesn't destroy all the clocks, [[spoiler: he's confronted by the spirits of Alys and Dell. Alys blames him for her death, since she could have been prevented if Lysander would have opened her letters. Dell calls him selfish, insisting that he just sees him as a ReplacementGoldfish to Alys. Both decide to make Lysander pay for his crimes and Lysander smiles as Alys and Dell stab him to death.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: A tragic case. Lysander was about to confess his feelings for Alys in the past, until she interupted him to say she was going to have an ArrangedMarriage with a rich man named Glenn in order to have enough money to pay for her mother operation. Heartbroken, Lysander decided not to see her again.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever

** Bad Ending: If Lysander doesn't destroy all the clocks, [[spoiler: he's confronted by the spirits of Alys and Dell. Alys blames him for her death, since her death couldn have been prevented if Lysander would have opened her letters. Dell calls him selfish, insisting that he never cared for him and was just a ReplacementGoldfish to him. Both decide to make Lysander pay for his crimes and Lysander smiles as Alys and Dell stab him to death.]]
** Good Ending: If Lysander destroys all the clocks and retrieves Alys's hairclip, [[spoiler: he rewinds the Great Clock. He's sent to the time Dell is about to be run by a car, and pulls him on time. Lysander apologizes to him and confesses about his guilt for being unable to save Alys in the past. Dell forgives him and continues to live with him. The final scene features Lysander visiting Alys's grave and finally accepting his immortality.]]

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Lysander for Alys. [[spoiler: The sad part is that it was mutual love between them all along, but couldn't do it because of PoorCommunicationKills.]]

''A Timeless Story'' is a mistery RPG created by Midori Fragments with RPG Maker VX Ace.

* Good Ending: If Lysander destroys all the clocks and retrieves Alys's hairclip, [[spoiler: he rewinds the Great Clock. He's sent to the time Dell is about to be run by a car, and pulls him on time. Lysander apologizes to him and confesses about his guilt for being unable to save Alys in the past. Dell forgives him and continues to live with him. The final scene features Lysander visiting Alys's grave and finally accepting his immortality.]]

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Dellbert is this in a nutshell. Lys wants to protect him no matter what as a sort of redemption from failing to prevent Alys's death.
* MultipleEndings: