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==== Voiced by: [[Soichiro Hoshi]] (JP), [[Grant George]] (EN) ====
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'''Keiichi Maebara''' is the main protagonist in the "question" arcs. The son of a famous artist, his family recently moved to Hinamizawa after an unfortunate event involving him in their hometown, {{spoiler|where he was the perpetrator of a series of crimes involving shooting young girls with his model gun}}. His charisma and remarkable talent for speechmaking allow him to easily make new friends and become popular in the village.
{{spoiler|Early in the story, in ''Onikakushi-hen'' and ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'', he is the one affected by the paranoia and driven to commit murder; however, the inner strength and unshaking belief in his friends he acquires in the other arcs are one of the keys to solving the mystery. Eventually, he is even able to recall some of the events of the past repetitions, which helps inspire Rika to defeat fate}}.
His arc is "Onikakushi-hen." ("Spirited away by the demon" in the dub)
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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Eye variation. The anime and the Mahjong game are the only continuities in the series that display him with purple eyes, though occasionally a manga color will show him with purple.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Strong believer of this and proud of it.
* {{spoiler|[[Amnesiac Dissonance]]}}: "[[My God, What Have I Done?|What have I done?]] {{spoiler|I killed Rena and Mion!}}"
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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: An incredibly dark twist on it.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Called "the Maebara Mansion" by the villagers, though about 2/3 of it is taken up by his father's art studio.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Used in liberal amounts.
* [[Bishonen]]: He's noticeably pretty and even [[Bishie Sparkle|sparkles]] on various occasions.
* [[Blue Eyes]].
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* [[Blue Eyes]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|"HAU~! OMOCHIKAERII!"]]
* [[Covert Pervert]]: , [[It Makes Sense in Context|she blushes when she hears Keiichi say that it's soo hot his crotch is getting sweaty to both her & Satoko in the VN.]]
** Also, in Rei.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: She supplies the Page Image. {{spoiler|Though in truth it is actually a subversion. It's not actually in her normal personality to snap like that.}}
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* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: She defiantly shows this, sometimes to the degree of Keiichi, whenever she snaps out of her calmness.
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Seen best in ''Watanagashi-hen''. It's implied she's [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Image Song]]: "Egao Happy Peace"
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==== Voiced by: [[Satsuki Yukino]] (JP), [[Megan Hollingshead]] (EN) ====
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'''Mion Sonozaki''' is the oldest classmate in Keiichi's class. As the elder, she is the class president and everyone looks up to her as the leader. Her social skills are on par with Keiichi, whom she highly respects as a friend and rival (though it is later shown that she has a crush on him). She acts like a tomboy, but has a hidden girlish side. She is next in line to be the head of the Sonozaki household, one of the Three Families which holds tremendous influence in Hinamizawa. Her position as heir is marked by an oni tattoo on her back.
{{spoiler|She's really the younger twin, who was born with the name "Shion", but was forced to trade identities with her sister when she received the oni tattoo by mistake}}.
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* [[Lady of War]]: Becomes this in spades in the alteverse sequel manga, Yoigoshi-hen. {{spoiler|This technically applies to her twin sister Shion as well, whose body she is possessing.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: She can get '''very''' hammy during club games.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|The reason she refuses to talk about Satoshi is because she was unable to save him.}}
* [[Nice Girl]]: Once you get past her playful competitive side, she's one of the kindest members of the cast. {{spoiler|And unlike Rena, who is just as nice, she has no dark backstory and apparently never succumbs to Hinamizawa Syndrome.}}
* [[The Ojou]]: Heir to a prestigous family, though she doesn't quite act the part.
* [[One of the Boys]]: Mion has trouble not just getting her feelings across to Keiichi but also getting him to really acknowledge her actual gender.
* {{spoiler|[[Only Sane Man]]: She's the only one in the cast without a [[Dark and Troubled Past]], and other than Rika, the only one who doesn't suffer from Hinamizawa Syndrome in the series (although it's hinted that she does in other Fragments).}}
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* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Mion is boyish, openly perverted but secretly shy, generous and calm when not playing games. Shion is much girlier, [[The Tease]] instead of perverted and tends towards being selfish and hotblooded. Mion herself states that she's the warm friendly one while Shion is cold.
* [[Shorttank]]
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Revealed to be the reason she likes Keiichi so much during the Eye Opening chapter.
* [[Spirited Competitor]]: Moreso than the rest of the club unless Keiichi or Rena get fired up.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Green-Haired and Bishoujo]]
* [[The Lancer]] / [[Team Mom]]: Was the group leader prior to [[The Hero|Keiichi's]] joining of the club, but directs the groups' activities even now. As the oldest member, she usually coordinates the abilities of everyone to [[The Strategist|maximum and frightening effect]] in and out of battle. Thus showing [[Brilliant but Lazy|her brilliance despite being the most laid back of the group.]]
* [[The Tease]]: In the manga especially, she has quite a few moments of this in the beginnings of different arcs.
* [[Tsundere]]: A unique type. She neither acts terribly tsun nor dere, but has the classic signs of denying her attraction or her desire for things. Note that since her "nice side" is the dominant personality, she has slight type B leanings.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: She's a tomboy, while her twin sister Shion is more feminine. {{spoiler|At least it appears as such. As noted under [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]], the two act this way because it is expected from them. Deep down, Mion is quite girly, while Shion is, [[Break the Cutie|well]], [[Yandere (disambiguation)|you]] [[Ax Crazy|probably]] [[Kill'Em All|know.]]}}
* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]
* [[Twin Switch]]: Frequently with Shion. {{spoiler|As children, they switched ''permanently''}}.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: In the Cotton Drifting and Eye Opening chapters.
* [[Does Not Like Spam]]: She hates canned foods because her father traumatized her into thinking that human meat gets packed inside.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: In Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen, excluding the anime.
* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: Her job at ''Angel Mort''.
* {{spoiler|[[Fingore]]: Forced to pull out three nails in order to protect people she had endangered.}}
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* [[The Unfavorite]]: As the younger twin, she is denied any family privilege. Especially painful because {{spoiler|she is really the older twin, and thus should be the Sonozaki heir}}. However, it seems that for the most part she doesn't entirely mind because it's not very fun having the responsibilities of the Sonozaki heir.
* [[Unreliable Expositor]]: Like a lot of the cast are at varying points. However, this is specifically referring to {{spoiler|almost the entirety of what she says at the end of ''Watanagashi'' being bullshit.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist]]: In Meakashi-hen.}}
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: {{spoiler|A taser, as well as the contents of the Sonozaki family's torture cellar. She also knows how to handle an ''assault rifle''.}}
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: '''GOOD''' '''''GOD'''''.
* [[Yakuza Princess]]
* {{spoiler|[[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: During the arcs where she snaps.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]
* [[Yubitsume]]: What she had to do to gain forgiveness from her grandmother for running away from her boarding school.
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** [[Break the Haughty]]: Rei Episode 3.
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Usually.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Besides her tragic past, it seems that, no matter who dies over the course of the series, one thing that's almost guaranteed is that Satoko's going to get beaten up at some point (most likely with a chair).
* [[Comatose Canary]]: In ''Yakusamashi-hen''.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: In Rei.
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==== Voiced by: [[Yukari Tamura]] (JP), [[Rebecca Forstadt]] (EN) ====
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'''Rika Furude''' is the main character of ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai''. She is a younger classmate in Keiichi's school, and is in the same grade level as Satoko. Naturally, she is great friends with her, as they live together in the same house. She is the [[Miko]] of the Shrine of Oyashiro-sama, and some of the villagers revere her as a prophet. She has been the head of the Furude family since her parents died, but rarely attends town meetings due to her young age.
{{spoiler|She is the only human to retain memories of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]], and is mentally anywhere from a hundred to four thousand years old, but hides this and continues to act like a child so as not to alarm her friends}}. She is the only one who can see Hanyu, whom everyone else thinks is an [[Imaginary Friend]].
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* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]
* {{spoiler|[[Determined Defeatist]]}}
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: She drinks wine, despite being underage.
* [[Expy]]: [[Cute Witch]] {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bitch|not]]}} Bernkastel in [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]. {{spoiler|Or is [[Enemy Without|she?]]}}
** Along with new [[Canon Sue]] Erika, {{spoiler|unleashed upon Umineko canon by Bernkastel for her own nefarious purposes}}. Sadly, {{spoiler|these characters seem to be Expies in appearance only, not in nature}}.
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==== Voiced by: [[Yui Horie]] (JP) ====
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'''Hanyu''' is the mysterious "transfer student" in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''. She has a pair of dark-colored horns on her head, one which is chipped slightly. In fact, she has appeared to Rika all her life, but only in ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' did she gain the power to interact with others. She is very meek and often makes the noise "Au au au¦" when she is nervous or uncomfortable. She dislikes alcohol and kimchi, which Rika uses in large amounts when Hanyu is being particularly annoying (Hanyu's and Rika's senses are linked together).
{{spoiler|Hanyu is the basis of the legend of Oyashiro-sama, but the legend has become distorted over hundreds of years, and she is horrified by the actions carried out in her name. She is the one responsible for the eternally repeating June 1983, which she created in order to save Rika's life}}.
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* [[Image Song]]: "Nano Desu".
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Especially jarring when you consider a TIPS that reveals that, {{spoiler|back when she was human, Hanyu had a ''daughter''}}.
** Heck, the sound novel has an based off {{spoiler|adult Hanyu}} and we see her {{spoiler|daughter}} in one arc.
* [[Intangible Man]]
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Subverted. Hanyu was one in the past, {{spoiler|allowing herself to be killed via Watanagashi to atone for the sins of the inhabitants of Hinamizawa}}, but now disagrees with the idea of people sacrificing others in the name of purifying their own sins.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Hau au auu~" and "Nano desu"
* [[The Voice]]: Until ''Minagoroshi-hen.'' "Gomen nasai..."
** In Onikakushi, in at least the sound novel remakes, you can hear her in the scene where Keiichi looks out his window at Rena. It's scary.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]
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==== Voiced by: [[Tohru Ookawa]] (JP), [[Kyle Hebert]] (EN) ====
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'''Jirou Tomitake''' is a freelance photographer who comes to Hinamizawa occasionally. He gets along well with Miyo Takano because of their similar interests in photography. Despite being only an occasional visitor, he seems to know a fair amount about Hinamizawa's past. Ooishi and the police are suspicious of his identity.
In the first six arcs, he is consistently found dead of suicide on the night of Watanagashi, triggering many of the events that follow. {{spoiler|It turns out later, however, that he is actually murdered by Miyo, who gives him a dosage of Hinamizawa Syndrome that results in him clawing his own throat out}}.
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==== Voiced by: [[Miki Ito]] (JP), [[Fuyuka Ooura]] (JP - young), [[Karen Strassman]] (EN) ====
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'''Miyo Takano''' is a nurse at the village clinic who has a keen interest in Hinamizawa's past and culture, recording all her speculation in notebooks. At times, her storytelling can be very mysterious and chilling she seems to enjoy putting people on edge. In the first six arcs, she consistently disappears on the night of Watanagashi, and an incinerated body thought to be hers is found in the mountains.
{{spoiler|It turns out that she is the mastermind of the events taking place in Hinamizawa, and wants to murder Rika and set off Hinamizawa Syndrome in the whole town so she can prove her grandfather's research. Since her will and manipulations are so strong as to affect the people in the village both directly and indirectly, she in fact fakes her death through the first six arcs of the story (the corpse in the barrel being a stolen corpse), and murders Rika in three of the arcs.}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Blondes Are Evil]]}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]
** {{spoiler|[[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: the consequence of being tortured into pretty much ''insanity'' in the [[Orphanage of Fear]] from her past.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* {{spoiler|[[Cute and Psycho]]}}
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* [[Epileptic Trees]]: A perpetuator of these in-universe. They range from the clearly correct (the prevalence of the "oni" character in the Sonozaki and Kimiyoshi family names), to the plausible but unprovable (the possible alternate spelling of "Oyashiro"), to the clearly insane (Oyashiro was an alien doctor!)
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Laugh]]: Gets a truly epic one when she's revealed to be the [[Big Bad]].}}
* [[Expy]]: [[Cute Witch]] Lambdadelta in [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]].
** [[All There in the Manual|An extra TIPS]] implies that {{spoiler|Lambdadelta helped Miyo achieve her goals.}} Other than that, they have no other connection. Possibly.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: But only in the very end of the series.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Not exactly a quote, but the scene near the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' where {{spoiler|her bullet misses Hanyu}} very closely echoes the scene near the beginning of the arc where {{spoiler|"God"'s lightning bolt narrowly misses Takano, immediately after she asks God to either give her a better life or kill her. Since she was spared, she took this as a sign that she is meant to live, and as a result, she became something of a Determinator}}. It can be interpreted that {{spoiler|her bullet missing Hanyu is a sign that Rika and Hanyu's determination to live has finally reached the same level as Miyo's will to live on that day.}}
** {{spoiler|It didn't miss on purpose. [[Compressed Adaptation|Although the anime does not show this]], Hanyu stops time and realizes that the bullet won't miss. Then Rika starts moving, despite time being stopped, and ''grabs the bullet'', moving it so that it won't hit anyone.}}
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}: Hello, {{spoiler|she tries to kill an entire village over and over again, and what does she get? Treatment for a disease that it wasn't well-established she had and a good cry in her lover's arms. While in that chapter she didn't manage to kill anyone, she's still responsible for Rika's parents, the first murderer and generally being a sociopathtic researcher}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: Started in Matsuribayashi-hen when Rika was falsely reported as dead for 48 hours and it just got worse after she was beaten.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Woman in Black]]: In Minagoroshi-hen, right before she kills Keiichi and the others one by one until she sacrifices Rika.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Would Hurt a Child]]: A woman who ''disembowels'' a little girl? After shooting her friends? Holy crap.}}
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: As part of her nurse uniform.
=== Kyousuke Irie ===
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==== Voiced by: [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP - drama CD), [[Daisuke Ono]] (JP - anime), [[Patrick Seitz]] (EN) ====
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'''Mamoru Akasaka''' is a young police investigator at the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. He befriended Rika while investigating a case in Hinamizawa four years ago, all due to a prophecy about his wife which came true; he, however, just brushed it off as coincidence.
{{spoiler|In an untold world, Mamoru regrets being unable to save his wife and Rika, learns martial arts to clear his mind, and hopes to relive the time before the Time Wasting Chapter to save them. Through a miracle, Mamoru inherits his martial art skills in ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', and decides to save Rika from her destined death as a payment for saving his wife through her prophecy}}.
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* [[Redemption Quest]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Took a ''lot'' of levels in [[Badass]].
** And learned the [[Super Smash Bros.|Falcon Punch]] during the Level Grinding. {{spoiler|He punches a bulletproof windshield, causing it to shatter.}}
=== Teppei Houjou ===
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* [[Outlaw Couple]]: With Rina
* [[They Killed Kenny]]: Dies....[[Understatement|quite a lot]], mostly to his own evil acts biting him in the ass.
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: Vigilante action (for NASTY child abuse and badger games) is the common motive in his many deaths throughout the arcs.
=== Oryou Sonozaki ===
==== Voiced by: Shizuka Okohira (JP), [[Barbara Goodson]] (EN) ====
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'''Oryou Sonozaki''' is Mion and Shion's grandmother and head of the Sonozaki household. She appears to be a very harsh old woman and is considered the most powerful person in Hinamizawa. Both Mion and Shion call her "Oni-baba" ("demon granny").
Shion {{spoiler|incorrectly}} suspects that she was the mastermind in Satoshi's disappearance {{spoiler|and accidentally kills her while attempting to interrogate her in ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen''}}.
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==== Voiced by: [[Kyoko Hikami]] (JP - drama CD), [[Misa Watanabe]] (JP - anime), Jean Smart (EN) ====
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'''Rina Mamiya''' is a woman who appears in Rena's life in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''. She is the lover of Teppei Houjou, and together they swindle men out of their money through intimidation and blackmail schemes. Her real name is Ritsuko, but she uses Rina as a fake name.
In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'', {{spoiler|Rena kills her ''bloodily'' to protect her father}}. Also, in ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' and ''Minagoroshi-hen'', {{spoiler|she is murdered by members of the [[Yakuza]] when she tries to flee Okinomiya, prompting Teppei to move back to Hinamizawa}}.
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* [[Tattooed Crook]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: A rare female example.
=== Akane Sonozaki ===
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==== [[Rie Tanaka]] (JP ) ====
Nomura is a woman from the organization 'Tokyo'. {{spoiler|She first appears after Koizumi dies in 1981 and confronts Takano Miyo about the future of her research on the Hinamizawa Syndrome.Her true motive is to have the Old Koizumi faction in Tokyo fall down due to the Great Hinamizawa Disaster and the research project becoming a mess afterwards along with wanting to see how far they can decieve people with the syndrome, real or not. She is shown to be a skilled manipulator of emotions, using Takano's grief and acting as though she understands in order to gain her trust and become the new backing up of the research institution.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Lampshaded in the author's notes at the end of the game, saying you have to draw the line somewhere on where the story ends. Thus, she is never held responsible for her actions and in the vast majority of timelines succeeds entirely.}}
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=== Frederica Bernkastel ===
'''Frederica Bernkastel''' is a mysterious figure in the ''Higurashi'' universe, author of a series of poems ([http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31811 fan translated version]) ([[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Trivia|official translation]]) about the series. The most direct information about her comes from "A Message From Frederica Bernkastel", which basically consists of her laughing about the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] that she's Rika Furude or Oyashiro-sama. Frederica has exactly one scene in the anime, after the credits of the final episode, and a few appearances in the manga.
She also appears (or does she?) in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', in which she gets a much more visible role.
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* {{spoiler|[[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]}}: {{spoiler|complete with [[Fake Memories]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Yandere (disambiguation)]]}}: {{spoiler|Her entire episode of Hinamizawa Syndrome is triggered when she freaks out about Akira seeing paper cut-outs in front of her house intended to ward off evil}}.
=== Akira Toudou ===
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'''Yae Towada''' decided to visit Hinamizawa with her boyfriend, Takumi, where she meets Otobe. {{spoiler|She suggested the trip to him in order to murder him there, having been driven to that point by his abusive nature}}.
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* [[Comforting Comforter]]: {{spoiler|Subverted once you find out that the reason she covered him like that was to make it look like he was sleeping, when he was actually ''dead''}}.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Domestic Abuse]]
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