Len

* Len
* Cat form
* Wonderland

Hope's for fools.

–***Len to Mario at the end of her boss battle***

**Len Alwenia Foska**, known as the **Cheshire Cat** in Wonderland, is the overarching antagonist of *(Mario) The Music Box*. She appears in both (*Mario) The Music Box Remastered* and (*Mario) The Music Box: ARC* and serves as both an enemy and an ally depending on how you play the game. She is a witch and the creator of Marchionne's Brooch, Aurora's necklace, Helena's ring*,* and the music box*.* Her origins are unknown, but due to her magical powers that can range from wish-granting to reality alteration, it is likely that she is some sort of divine entity, if not God herself. Marchionne even suggests this as a possibility in the Continuance #4 Ending. She can turn into the form of a cat, and it is revealed at one point in the Insane Route that she was one of the original cursed twins, probably with the other twin being Layla.

## Appearance

Len's appearance differs between her different forms. As a human, she has white hair and white skin, and resembles a young girl, though she is much older than she seems. In her cat form, she has black fur. One striking similarity between the two forms is that she has different colored eyes, one is blue and the other is yellow.

In her Wonderland version, she is a mix between both her human and cat forms. She does not have her hooded coat, which reveals white hair that has been tinted blue at the edges and a pair of blue cat ears. Whether she also has these ears under her hood in the main game or whether said ears are real and not artificial are currently unknown. She now wears a blue dress. She also has a gold earring with a long chain and a piece of jewelry at the end on her left cat ear. In Wonderland, she also seems to take on a vaguely more adult-like form.

## Personality

Since she rarely appears in the games and there is scarcely any information given regarding her past, Len is one of the more enigmatic characters in the game. She always wears a stoic expression on her face and rarely expresses her emotions, if at all, which only add to her mysterious aura.

It is hinted that Len may look down on humans, as she once questions how the residents of Evangeline are foolish enough to believe that Marchionne's death would be beneficial to them. While Len may not be necessarily cruel, she, however, does not show compassion towards humans, as she had no qualms with sending Mario to what seems like Purgatory. She only perceives humans as simply objects that assist her in her research in human behavior. She may even sometimes see humans as toys, since she revives Mario after he dies in her boss battle simply because she thought his death was "boring" or "disappointing." Len may also be slightly pessimistic, as she states that hope is for fools.

In Wonderland, she still maintains her goal to complete her research, but her personality has now changed noticeably. Instead of constantly wearing an expressionless face, she now has a more varied set of expressions, her most commonly seen expression being a sly smile. Len is shown to have a more sadistic personality, since she likes to watch the pointless suffering created from political feuds and smiles when she kills Sündige Nacht and manipulates Mario to wish for power, leading to his downfall. She also once removed Mario's voice and smiled cruelly, knowing fully well that it would put him in danger. She also states that she will relish every moment of Mario's repeated suffering in Wonderland. Thus, in a sense, Len's personality has become somewhat similar to Riba's initially cruel personality. Len has now been given new quirks as well. Len has no interest in political matters even though she has vast influence and power by just simply possessing the diamond suit. Len also prefers to avoid questions and is easily annoyed by them, to the point where she simply took away Mario's voice in order for him to stop pestering her.

## Story

Len appears in (*Mario) The Music Box Remastered* as her cat form and serves as a way to block Mario from traveling up the stairs in the mansion at different points in the game. At first when Mario interacts with her, she only acts like a cat, but after Mario interacts with her enough times, she begins to speak. Mario can then do one of four things: ask her who she is, what she is, say nothing, or ask about the experiment. The first two listed options returns a one dialog box response that does not truly answer the question asked, and the third option returns nothing. The fourth option however, results in Len asking if Mario really wants to know about the experiment. If he answers yes, Len will kill him, stating how he is no longer needed and that she prefers her "subjects to be ignorant of the truth".

In (*Mario) The Music Box: ARC*, Len's first appearance in the Insane Route is when you leave the Evangelisti's home after getting the Brooch Fragment hidden there. She assumes her cat form, and Mario notices that she has one of the Brooch Fragments in her mouth. She runs from him, and he gives chase. He follows her through the Silent Forest, and meets her again in the basement of the Unknown Residence that Riba is in in the 2nd District of Evangeline, where you can exchange the Dead Fish Mario found at the Memorial for the Brooch Fragment.

Mario meets Len once again in the Old Aduraice Home when Marchionne takes Mario's spirit from his body in hopes to make him fade away. After finding the False Book on the second floor, she will appear in cat form once again and send Mario back to his body. After this, if you read the note Alice was looking at before the ordeal, it will trigger a flashback to Riba and Alice's wedding, where they receive the Music Box as a present from Len, who both of them do not know.

If the player does not kill Riba after talking to him, showing the Green Headband and giving him the apple, Len will appear near the end, freezing time. She will assume her human form and reveal how she met Marchionne and gave him the Brooch that allowed him to be reborn as Mario. In exchange for him being reborn, he became her test subject, for the purpose of studying human behavior. She also tells Mario how she witnessed Marchionne's execution. She says how every time you load a save, you create a new iteration of Mario and the world around him. After this, Mario will break down and realize that this entire ordeal had nothing to do with Alice or the Music Box being cursed, and commences Len's boss battle.

If the player decides to play through the game without saving once, Len appears in the Star Ending in her cat form, presumably because she is the one who restored Mario's old life. She says that since Mario decided to not save, it means that Mario does not rely on the saving system Len provided for him and thus does not need Len anymore to save him. By not using the saving system, Mario is free from the cycle Len put him in, and thus, Len does not need him anymore. Mario, back in his old life, is now able to live with freedom.

In Wonderland, it seems that the letters Mario finds on the ground are written by Len, since the tone they are all written in aligns with Len's personality. Len then personally appears immediately after Mario activates the bridge. She disappears, then reappears later when Mario is captured and put in prison by the Queen of Hearts. After explaining to Mario how he can escape Wonderland, Mario continues to give her questions. Annoyed, she decides to take away Mario's voice so that he will not be able to bother her anymore. If Mario does not find his voice in time and is executed, Len will appear behind Sündige Nacht, who is lamenting about not being able to save Mario sooner. Len says that Sündige Nacht's efforts to save Mario and escape Wonderland are futile. Sündige Nacht is indignant, and says he only ever wanted to be reincarnated in his old world and not Wonderland. Len then kills him, saying that since Mario is deceased he is no longer needed.

If Mario finds his voice and survives to defeat Sündige Nacht, Len will appear behind Mario. Mario, seemingly oblivious to her presence, is manipulated by Len into wishing for power instead of wishing to return home. Len smiles, thinking about how Mario still fails to break the cycle of suffering within Wonderland that he wanted to be so desperately free from. She wonders when one of the various iterations of Mario will come and finally break the cycle. She dismisses the thought, and says that she will relish in Mario's pain until the very end. For more information on these two endings from Wonderland, go to the Murder and Corruption endings on the page Endings.

## Trivia

* Len is the only character to break the fourth wall, if one does not count Mario in the demo of (Mario) The Music Box ARC.
	+ Breaking the fourth wall also further hints that Len may indeed be a powerful deity.