Protagonist

*"I don't care. I don't. I... I love her. No matter what."*
―Protagonist to Father
The **Protagonist** of *Twelve Minutes* is the son of a man who had an affair with Dahlia. He fell in love with his own Half-Sister and is in conflict inside his imagination and stories, where he was married to his Sister, neither of them knowing the truth, and there was a Cop accusing the Wife of murdering her father.

## Profile

### Appearance

*The protagonist appears in formal attire, wearing a white shirt with a red tie and dress pants and shoes. His build appears slender and his hair is neatly swept.*

## Main Story

### History

The Protagonist was born as the product of an affair between a man and Dahlia. Dahlia died in childbirth, leaving the Protagonist as an orphan. His Father wanted to adopt him, but the Father's Wife hated him and the Protagonist. The Protagonist then fell in love with a woman, who turned out to be his Half-Sister. When his Sister's mother died due to a spiral, the Protagonist's Father found the Protagonist and they had a conversation in the Father's Office. The conversation had many different versions of itself, but one involved the Husband accidentally shooting the Father, killing him. In that storyline, the Husband forgot his memories involving the Father as well as the fact he was in love with his sister. The Husband and the Wife got married, moved into an Apartment, and the Husband impregnated her.

### Game

The Husband returns to his Apartment from work and greets his Wife. The Wife has made desert, and during the meal, she gives the Husband a present with baby clothes with his mother Dahlia's name, revealing that she's pregnant. While dancing, a Cop intervenes and has them apprehended in their own apartment. The Cop accuses the Wife of murdering her Father eight years ago and demands her Father's Pocket Watch. When she refuses to cooperate, the Cop strangles the Husband and as she is going to reveal where it is, time resets itself and the Husband is back at the entrance of his Apartment about five minutes ago.

The Husband realizes that the day is repeating itself and tries to explain to the Wife. When trying to leave the Apartment, the loop resets. He hides in the closet to see what happens when the Cop encounters the Wife. In the scenario, the Cop tortures the Wife into explaining that the Watch is in the vent under the medicine cabinet, and after he collects it, the Cop shoots the Wife and staged it as a suicide. In the next loop, the Husband explains to the Wife about the time loop and the situation, showing her the Watch he found. The Wife finally tells her backstory, how she shot her Father eight years ago on Christmas Eve, seemingly killing him.

In the next loop, the Husband learns a quote about forgetting from the Book his Wife reads. He drugs his Wife with sleeping pills, putting her to sleep when the Cop enters. The Cop gets electrocuted by the broken light switch in the bedroom, knocking him out and allowing the Husband to handcuff him. When the Cop wakes up, the two started working together. After giving the Cop the Watch, the Husband waits outside the bedroom and hears the Cop shoot his Wife, killing her. The Cop demands the Husband to call the police and claim his Wife committed suicide. In the next loop, the Husband cuffs the Cop and interrogates him, but the only way he could get the Cop to cooperate is by shooting one of his limbs. The Husband learns that the Father survived being shot on Christmas Eve and was killed on New Years Eve, but the Polaroid is proof that the Wife was miles away from her Father's place. The Cop also reveals that he wants the Watch for money and that he was close to the Father. While inspecting the texts on the Cop's phone, the Husband found out that his daughter Bumblebee has cancer and the insurance won't pay for the treatment.

In the next loop, the Husband calls Bumblebee to convince the Cop to listen to him and his Wife, since the latter is innocent. When questioning the Wife about her Father's affair with her nanny, she reveals that the nanny got pregnant and died giving birth to a boy, the half-brother of the Wife. When the Cop, who was convinced by Bumblebee, arrives, the Wife proves her innocence to him and they make peace. After the Wife gives the Watch to the Cop, the Cop reveals a clue about the Father's killer, making the Wife deduce that it was her brother. When the time loop seemingly ends with the Husband and Wife embracing each other, time resets again, much to the Husband's dismay. When interrogating the tortured Cop, he asks him about the nanny, learning that she was named after a flower. He shows the Cop the onesie with the name "Dahlia", making the Cop reveal that Dahlia was the nanny's name. The Husband has a mental breakdown realizing that his mother Dahlia was the nanny, meaning that he is the brother.

The Husband gets sent back in time to the night he has a conversation with the Father in his Office. The Husband asks the Father permission to date the Wife, even though he knows she's his sister, making the Father express hatred towards the Husband. Despite any answer the Husband chooses to say, the Father beats him and the Husband accidentally shoots him twice in the stomach, killing him.

The Husband returns to the present in the Apartment, where he faints from the realization in front of his Wife, resetting the loop. He calls Bumblebee and tells her the reason the Cop wants to hurt them, as well as to convince the Cop to not do so. The siblings have a peaceful night together, with no interruptions, but when the Husband was satisfied, the loop resets, dismaying him. The Husband confesses the truth to the Wife, disgusting her. They explain the entire truth to the Cop, making the Cop change his mind about hurting them and instead takes the Watch before threatening the Husband and leaving. The Wife, angered, demands the Husband to leave the Apartment, and when he does so, the loop resets, angering him since he did the right thing.

He uses the Watch to return to the day he speaks with the Father in his Office, and their conversation is a lot more calm. The Husband decides that it's best that he can't be with his sister, making peace with the Father as the Husband cried into his shoulder. The time loop is finally broken, making him enter a timeline where he is alone. He goes to the Apartment, which is clear of most of its items from the previous timeline, except for the Watch. Even though the minute hand is broken, the Husband manages to use it to return to the day he speaks with his bald Father. He quotes the line about forgetting from the red Book, giving the Father the idea of hypnotizing the Husband about his pain. The Father begins hypnotizing him with a scenario centering around a flower's movements, making him forget about everything he went through in the time loops.

The Husband returns to the time he enters the Apartment, not knowing everything he had learned before. After experiencing his journey again, he asks the Father for the hypnosis, but this time, the Husband stares at the clock as the hour finishes, making the Father's voice fade out. As time stops when the hour finishes, the Father's voice tells him he has a remarkable imagination, but he needs to let his love over his sister go and wake up.