Cleo Bartholomeus

**Cleo Bartholomeus** is a new character in Chad Williams' mini-series and serves as the tertiary antagonist until the final chapter where she switches sides. She is an Egyptian necromancy high-priestess being revived by Chad at the New York Museum within the climax of chapter 2 due to Viktor Bartholy's dark influence while being trapped inside Chad's purple crystal and the mother of Isaac Bartholy. She also appears as one of the instructors after Sofia Flores, Beth Young, Jesse Mills and Jenny Blake to instruct the players if they want to play the good or bad ending.

## Appearance

Cleo is an Egyptian with a medium-length black-brown hair, brown eyes and wears a bronze lipstick. She also accessorizes with traditional earrings in both of her ears.

She wears two outfits in the game.

When she was revived by Chad due to Viktor's dark influence while being trapped in Chad's crystal, she wears a traditional dress worn by priestesses which she was mainly portrayed as a necromancy priestess. A light green traditional sleeveless dress with a plunging diamond line to show her cleavage and a matching belt. She is also wears a golden snake-like shoulder band on her right shoulder.

While sided with Aiden Williams, she wears a modern outfit which is a blend between the primary outfits worn by Lana Escobar and Fiona. A mahogany brown leather jacket with designs and a black sleeveless dress underneath.

## Personality

Following her resurrection by Chad from his purple crystal due to Viktor's dark influence, Cleo displays hostility towards Chad and the player while demonstrating her powerful necromancy magic.

As a necromancy priestess, her power is equal to that of Aiden Williams, which she demonstrates using her necromancy magic to knock everyone across the battlefield, it shows that she managed to knock down Chad and the player who finally got out in the museum. She is also able to dispel the necromancy powers with a single snap of her fingers, and she uses this on Chad after Aiden had located his hidden temple with the help of the tracking device he had put on the player and using her powers to attack them both due to her being blinded by love and desire to find Viktor.

In chapter 4, while being sided with Aiden, she is shown to be blinded by love towards Viktor whom she calls him as Victorius despite being warned by both Chad and the player about him that he is no longer human, but is an Original vampire. Cleo angrily ignored all of their warnings and remained driven to find Viktor to meet him again by attacking them both with her necromancy magic. Her presence also leads Viktor to unleash his powers as an Original vampire while being trapped in Chad's purple crystal.

In the final chapter of the story in the bad ending, her powers are now equal to Chad's and were repelled by Chad when he uses the Golden Rose as a last resort after defeating his older brother Aiden. She was initially happy to see Viktor after he was released from Chad's purple crystal during the clash between the two brothers, but she became angry and disdained after learning of what Viktor had done to their own son, Isaac Bartholy, by transforming him into a vampire, leading her to change sides and fight with Chad and the player after learning of Viktor's true nature as an Original vampire. This also happens in the canonical good ending where she questions Viktor's vampiric appearance while they are inside of the purple crystal and soon learns that Viktor is no longer the same person she had known, leading her to side with Chad and the player. After dispersing the purple crystal that turns into stone made by her and instantly kills Viktor from the inside, she finally apologizes to both of them for her recent actions and for not listening to their warnings, and shows how impressed she is with Chad whom she had promoted as a necromancy priest to get the job well done. She also displays her motherly tendencies afterwards when she decided to leave and go find Isaac in Mystery Spell

## Season 1

She was mentioned by Chad's older brother Aiden Williams in chapter 2 where he manipulates the player into reviving her corpse from her Egyptian tomb being excavated by Sebastian Jones during his trips in Egypt (a call back to his main story route). Both Chad and the player arrive at the New York museum and manage to find her tomb. After having a quickie, Chad uses his necromancy powers to revive her corpse and it succeeds as the casket from her tomb was broken into pieces. She was angrily awakened upon seeing both Chad and the player and they are confronted by Aiden who taunts his younger brother for refusing his help. When Chad warns Aiden to run, he and the player escape to the museum but Aiden ignores his warnings as Cleo unleashes her powers within her rage and her magical powers manage to knock both Chad and the player out when they are already out of the museum.

In Chapter 3, she was mentioned by Aiden and it was revealed that she has an alliance with him.

In her second appearance in chapter 4, she and Aiden had cornered both Chad and the player which he had put a tracking device on her to locate where she is as they infiltrated his temple. Cleo also manages to dispel the protection barriers made by Chad by snapping her fingers, leaving him unable to use his powers. Cleo reveals to be one of Viktor's former lovers whom she had called Victorius when human, and she was blinded by desire to find him. Despite both the player and Chad's warnings about Viktor, who is no longer the human she had known as he is an Original vampire, she angrily ignores them. Altogether, she and Aiden attempts to kill the player with their necromancy magic but were repelled by Chad by teleporting them both to the spirit world to avoid collision with their powers. At the end of chapter 4, it is revealed that Cleo's presence leads Viktor to increase his powers while being trapped in Chad's purple crystal and Chad states how long he could hold onto his crystal due to his increasing powers as an Original vampire.

After Chad and the player resurfaced in the final chapter during the bad ending, she and Aiden returned back to the temple and had a clash with Chad within their necromancy magic. She faces the player who is unsure of herself to use the Golden Rose, Cleo attempted to attack her but was repelled by Chad using the Golden Rose. Once they get out of the temple after Viktor was released from the purple crystal during Chad's battle with his older brother Aiden, she was initially happy to see him again until Viktor reveals his true nature as an Original vampire. Cleo was horribly surprised that Viktor didn't care about her of their love and he reveals to her that he transformed their son Isaac Bartholy into a vampire. Because of this revelation, she finally switches sides and aligns herself with Chad and the player, and Viktor strangles the player to death with his superhuman strength before Chad saved her, but it was too late. Following that revelation, Cleo was never seen again afterwards.

In the canonical good ending, Chad teleports him, the player and Cleo to enter inside the purple crystal where Viktor remains trapped. Just like in the bad ending, she was initially happy to see him again until Viktor reveals his true nature and what he did to Isaac. This revelation leads her to change sides and fight with Chad and the player, causing Viktor to hold the player hostage, forcing them both to use their powers to get back into reality. Cleo knows that Viktor remains inside the crystal and uses her necromancy powers to turn the purple crystal into stone and shatters it, rendering him inactive. She soon apologizes to Chad and the player for her recent actions in chapter 4, stating that Viktor would no longer make any dangerous threats to their lives. After discussing the struggles on trapping Viktor from his purple crystal, Cleo promotes Chad to become a necromancy priest and decided to take her leave to find her son Isaac since her son needed his mother's love after so long. She finally leaves them to find her son in Mystery Spell within Chad's instructions from earlier.

## Allies

* Aiden Williams
* The Main Character (Chad)
* Chad Williams
* Viktor Bartholy (formerly)

## Enemies

* Viktor Bartholy
* The Main Character (Chad) (formerly)
* Chad Williams (formerly)

## Trivia

* She appears to share the same portrait stance with Celeste Devolt.
* Her name is probably a reference to Cleopatra.
* Her surname Bartholomeus is a play on the real-life Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian, Bartholomeus Breenbergh who painted the God's first plague against the Egyptians during the events in the book of Exodus where Moses shows it to Aaron by demonstrating to use his staff to transform the river into blood to convince the Pharoah, Rameses to free the Isralites in Egypt but was unmoved and refused.
* She's the only character in Mystery Spell to have defeated and murdered Viktor Bartholy. A feat that no one has ever achieved in the full story routes or mini-series.
* Cleo is a unique love sick villain in the Is it Love? franchise, as rather than being in love with the main love interest like many other female antagonists, she is in love with the main antagonist instead, which is what causes her hostility.
* She has been praised for her actions in the good ending where she had gotten over Viktor and her love for him and was able to help the player and Chad get rid of Viktor.
* She is one of the strongest Mystery Spell characters in the series in terms of supernatural abilities, surpassing Viktor in power and magic. The only character that probably surpasses her in terms of power is Ka-Ata-Killa, who is often considered to be a God.
* She can be considered as the total opposite of the player from Viktor, as even though both were in highly in love with Viktor, Cleo had the rationality to choose the wellness and peace of the others instead of keeping the "monster" (Referred to Victorius by her) alive. The player from Viktor's route did not despite the warnings and her actions lead to the indirect deaths of many people because she kept Viktor alive, who went on to become a nuisance for everybody.
* There is a theory by fans that Cleo's son Isaac could be the "First One" referred to in the third and final season of Drogo's route as it is implied in Chad's mini-series that Viktor has kept their son at Mystery Spell. This theory is proven to be true in the events of chapter 4 where their son was kept at the basement of the Bartholy Manor and Lorie Bartholy wanted to set him free which she had succeeded by tricking the player into open his casket to awake Isaac from his deep slumber.
* At first she received a lot of backlash and was supposed to be a more annoying version of Ka-Ata-Killa. However, after the end of Chad's mini series, fans who were tired of Viktor's antics and always being used as the main antagonist found her positive after she renders Viktor inactive by turning the purple crystal into stone and shatters it with her necromancy magic.
* It was thought by many fans that she would be the main villain of Chad's route. However she was actually the tertiary antagonist, and was redeemed in both endings.
* Cleo speaks Latin and it was very unusual to speak in her native language Egyptian.
* She looks very similar to one of the facial and hairstyle choices for the main character in A Courtesan of Rome from Choices, particularly face 1 with hairstyle 3.
* In the end of Chapter 10 within the third and final season of Drogo's route, Cleo's surname is revealed to be Bartholomeus when her son Isaac reintroduced himself in his full name as Isaac Lucius Bartholomeus. Because of his deep hatred to his father Viktor, Isaac immediately takes up his mother's surname instead.