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When Takako the maid walked in on Eduard and Charlotte making love with each other, Charlotte forced Eduard to sexually abuse her in order to teach her a lesson. Soon after, Eduard decided that he was disgusted with Charlotte's behaviour and planned to reveal her heinous acts to the people at large.
In response, Charlotte had her men kill Eduard before he could tell the tale, and forced Takako to watch. She then pinned the dirty deed on the poor maid, and convinced the townsfolk that she was a witch. She was burned at the stake soon after.
Takako soon returned as a ghost in order to enact revenge on Charlotte. Before she could complete her goal though, Charlotte wrote an old-timey chain letter (With Takako's blood maybe?) that screamed for help. The Letter binded Takako's spirit to the mansion, and anyone who reads the note will be become a target of the ghost. People who are involved with them in any way will also become a target, which is why Rose and the other employees of Briar Realty start to die in rapid succession after Isabelle read the letter. Only by destroying the letter and/or mansion can her spirit be freed.
As for Charlotte, i'm guessing that her spirit ended up fusing with the mansion? She only starts to talk near the end when Ashton is running around the place, and Luke only hears her when he's near the place.
Have I got any of that right, or am I just waffling nonsense?
I was fairly certain that the maid/Takako walked in on Charlotte sleeping with some random stranger and not her fiancee/Eduard, unless I completely misread what was going on in one scene. I'm also not really sure who it is that Charlotte had rape Takako, but I didn't think it was Eduard either.
Like I said, I am missing some memory fragments, so I didn't get all the flashbacks associated with them, so I could be wrong.
Looking at the fragments and opening again, you're probably right about it being some stranger rather than Eduard. It was a bit hard to tell at first, as all of Eduard's pictures make it hard to see if he has a ponytail.
It would definitely make more sense, since Eduard would be mad at both her cruel punishment of an innocent maid and her blatant unfaithfulness as a fiancee.
My interpretation is that the maid was in love with the "prince" Eduard, who was to marry Lady Charlotte, who was... a piece of work. The lady had at least one other lover, who the maid caught her in the act with, and assuming the memory fragments are sequential in the same order you get them, Charlotte then had her raped as punishment, I think - most likely by her lover. Somehow the prince found out about Charlotte's other man (and possibly her cruel treatment of the maid, who might have been the one to tell him), and decided to leave.
Charlotte then had the maid and the prince both beaten, him to death, I think, and took the bloodied maid to ye olde court and had her executed for "bewitching" him (I assume she pinned his death/disappearance on the maid). The maid (whose name is Takako, assuming Kylie was actually communicating with her) then returned as a ghost to get revenge on Charlotte.
That seems to be what the memory fragments are trying to show, in terms of backstory, but what I don't understand is what happens AFTER. It seems to me that somehow the maid and Charlotte become one and the same as the ghost (in Marianne's alive ending to her chapter as well as the true ending you see the ghost shift between the two women's appearances, and when Hannah is possessed by the ghost she acts a lot more like Charlotte than the maid), but why did Charlotte create the letter and what is its relevance? Why does the ghost chase down and kill anyone who has anything to do with the house, when it seems like the maid at least was initally a good person - it's one thing to get revenge on the woman who killed her as well as the man she adored, but it's another thing to target dozens of innocent people for no real reason.
Also, the ghost's obsession with Luke bothers me. He LOOKS like the prince, yes - is that coincidence or is he supposed to be a distant relative/reincarnation. Certainly the ghost takes him for the prince coming home to her (or rather both of them) at last, but his connection to the prince, if there is one, is left unexplained. The backstory was nice and well thought out, but I wish it was explained more clearly in game how what happened in the past led to a curse on the house/letter that doomed anyone connected to it.
Thanks in advance for answering!
Due to the game's delay we had to cut off several features. Unfortunately the beach scene was one of them >.< It was supposed to be one of the Epilogue slides.
Ahh...can't say that doesn't bum me a little. However with all said and done, you guys have done a PHENOMENAL job with this game. Highly riveting (damn jumpscares) and enjoyable till the very end. Keep up the fantastic work! :)
On the Isabella chapter, it ended on sort of a cliffhanger with the maid walking by her. And on the Hannah chapter, I got the ending where Hannah and Luke sorta repair their relationship, I know Luke has been sorta bad, but I like to think he has social problems from his past that he covers up with drinking and hopefully he overcomes these problems with this ending.
But yeah so far so good and I can't wait to play the rest. The game has a good mix of calmness and horror.
My current theory:
The memory fragments:
The entire town loved Charlotte and thought she was a wonderful person -- she even rescued a slave (Takako) and hired her as a maid. However, secretly Charlotte was actually a horrible and sadistic person. She was cheating on her fiance Eduard with another man, and Takako walked in and saw this. Charlotte had Takako punished for this by having a man (Charlotte's lover, maybe?) rape her. Later, Eduard finds out about Charlotte's sadism and becomes disgusted with her. Eventually Charlotte has both Takako and Eduard punished. (I am not 100% clear on the reason, but since Takako was clearly infatuated with Eduard, my guess is that Charlotte caught them together. It's not entirely clear if Eduard actually returned her affections or not.) Charlotte murders Eduard in front of Takako, then tells the rest of the town that Takako murdered him because she's a witch. Takako is then burned at the stake.
The creation of the curse:
When Takako dies, her grudge against Charlotte transforms her into an evil wraith. She haunts Charlotte for revenge, and eventually Charlotte kills herself. (Or the wraith kills her and makes it look like a suicide, one of those.) Charlotte's spirit becomes trapped in the mansion, along with all of the wraith's other victims.
(When Zach talks with the professor about the wraith, the professor says "the simplest grudge can bring the ugliest even in the kindest person", so Takako was probably a perfectly nice person before her death, and not a witch or anything.)
The letter:
The letter was written by Charlotte after the wraith started tormenting her. (Probably after she dies and becomes trapped in the mansion, but could be before.) The letter is just Charlotte's plea for help and not the source of the curse. The "send this to five people or else..." part was NOT in the original letter, and was added shortly before the game starts by some teenage boys from St. Goretti who came to the mansion on a dare. (In Marianne's ending where she survives and you see the video recording of the boys, one of them is holding a brush and talking about adding something to the letter as a prank.)
Burning the letter doesn't break the curse, because the letter isn't what's causing the curse in the first place. (Consider all the BRC employees who never saw the letter, but still died after working on the mansion.)
The HELP ME message that gets written by victims of the curse is probably written by Charlotte or other victims trapped in the mansion, or possibly by the part of the wraith that is still Takako.
Breaking the curse:
When the professor talks about the wraith, he says "something must be sacrificed to destroy whatever anchors the wraith". This is why burning the mansion doesn't end the curse -- no proper sacrifice was made. In the True End, the curse ends because Luke, the target of the wraith's interest, willingly sacrifices himself to her.
On Luke and the wraith:
It seems like the wraith is interested in Luke because he looks like Eduard, who Takako was in love with, plus Hannah also looks kind of like Charlotte. (I'm not sure if they're actually supposed to be reincarnations of the couple or not.) The wraith also says that the lord promised to return to the mansion, so perhaps Eduard promised to return for Takako, and the wraith is interpreting Luke's arrival as Eduard finally returning?
The wraith also talks about "sharing blood" with Luke, so it might be that Luke is blood-related to one of the people involved in the original events (Takako, Charlotte, or Eduard).
The part of the wraith that isn't Takako seems to like the fact that Luke is a murderer, just like her, but I don't know how much of an effect that has on anything.
So what happens to the butler in the end? I assume he either burns up with the mansion or gets taken by the ghost when he's knocked out, but if there's anything I missed to suggest otherwise I'd love to hear it. He was well-developed compared to the other supporting characters and it would be sad to see him go.
...I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one with an odd fondness for the butler.
"No,no,no Stay away!"
"Stay- Stay away!"
Probably attacked by Takako(wraith ghost) in attic room.
Yeah, the ghost got him. In one of the paths in Luke's chapter (I think the one where everyone else is dead), Luke and Johannes are down in the cellar checking on Marianne's body, and the ghost attacks Johannes while Luke is in another room and Luke hears him screaming (the same "No, no, no, stay away!" line). I assume she kills him in all the other paths as well, just in different places.
Poor Johannes. I really wanted to know more about his husband and kids.