Cute Mute: Difference between revisions

* 'Lady' from ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From The New World'' is about as direct a subversion as you're gonna get. She never speaks, is an [[Emotionless Girl]], can inspire love in the heart of a sociopathic psycho named 'Killer', and was not so much [[Raised by Wolves]], as [[Wild Child|not raised at all]]. She can also kill you with a flick of her wrist, and probably will, just because you happen to be there. {{spoiler|She's like this because she was originally the sister of the protagonist and during a ritual to bring them back from the dead, she gave up her "will" (life force) to save her brother, which turned her into a "pure mass of malice" -- a being with no memories or humanity.}}

* Yone from ''[[Suikoden Tactics]]'' plays it fairly straight, being both cute and otherworldly.

*** Not true. Pilika was shut away at the time and didn't witness the slaughter - only the aftermath, which left her rather traumatized. ...Then Luca came back, cut Poll in two from chest to neck in front of her, and then seemed to be seriously considering doing the same to her before the fort exploded around them and the main characters pulled her out. ''That'' little experience, on top of her still pretty fragile state, rendered her mute right up until almost the end of the story. Did I mention Pilika's what? Eight? And then Shu distracts a squad of crossbowmen by lobbing her across their line of sight, just as they're about to fire on the main characters....

*** Pilika is actually five.

* ''Claudia'', from ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow]]''. Cute and innocent as the trope allows. She can't speak, but she can use telepathy to express herself. And she does. A lot.

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has Anastacia of Astora, one of the world's important firekeepers. For unknown but likely horrible reasons, her tongue was cut out. There is a way to restore her ability to speak, but even then she considers it sinful.

 

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