Nocturne of Nightmares

# ***Nocturne of Nightmares: Romance Otome Game***

## ***Story***

*"You’re a young woman whose childhood was always a blur for some reason. No matter how hard you try, you can never quite remember it.*

*One day after falling into a deep sleep, you wake up terrified in a dark, creepy world. But you’re not alone. You find yourself trapped in this nightmare world along with a few attractive strangers. Yet, they all seem vaguely familiar. Who are these guys? And why does your heart hurt so badly when you look at them, especially Licht?*

*However, there’s no time to think about that when heart-wrenching apparitions of childhood begin suddenly appearing one after the other. But, before you can even process what is appearing in front of your eyes, a hideous monster shows up out of nowhere. It’s dead set to destroy you. Yet, strangely...even the monster seems to be suffering. What could this mean?*

*You run for your life scared and confused. Before you can unravel these mysteries, you wake up in a cold sweat. Only for the cycle to repeat itself every night when the bell tolls ten. What is going on? Why is this happening?*

*You agree to meet those strangely familiar young men in the real world to figure out a way to stop the cycle. It seems the nightmares are somehow connected to your shrouded past. Unfortunately, you also find out that if you die in the nightmare world...you die in the real world.*

*Will you survive the night? Will you solve the mystery? Can you put an end to this life-threatening cycle of nightmares? Or will you be forever tormented by your past? Ready or not, embark on an emotional journey of self-discovery, friendship, love, and survival!"*

**[THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE HAS MAJOR SPOILERS, READ IT AFTER YOU PLAY THE GAME.**

**IT ALSO CONSIST ONE PICTURE (OF THOMA) THAT CAN BE TRIGGERING TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEVERE ANXIETY.**

**ALSO FOLLOWING THE TOPICS ABOUT DEPPRESION]**

**[ANOTHER PICTURE OF A MONSTER CAN CAUSE PANIC ATTACKS TO PEOPLE WHO HAS PARANOA]**

**[IF A READER GETS AN ANIXETY, *NEITHER THE ADMIN OF THIS PAGE NOR THE SCRIPT WRITER IS BLAME FOR,* CONTENT WRITTEN CAN BE LITTLE TRAUMATIZING TO SOME READERS! ]**

**[ VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED]**

## ***Characters***

### *Subaru*

> *The first one you meet in the nightmare, calm and calculating Subaru seems distant and withdrawn. His distinctive red and blue Heterochromia has you inexplicably enchanted, yet he seems to be ashamed of his red eye for some reason. Could he be hiding something?*
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#### Appearance

Subaru is a tall, cute, high school boy, who is very mature from his age. He is mostly quiet and a calm person. He has a condition called “Heterochromia” (A person who have 2 different color eyes), one of them is Red and other is Blue. Due to some reason he doesn’t like his red eye and hides it by using a blue lens. He has a white hair. He typically wears “High school uniform” which is black colored pants and coat with white shirt.

#### History (Full Spoilers)

Subaru is pretty brave and not afraid of dark or the ghost, he think that the situation is a game (Which shows that he don’t take life seriously). When he was a child, he was taken by the orphanage and raised there. He starts liking MC from his child age until their memories perished. Further in the story we understand that his real mom used to hate him because of his red eyes. His mom says, “It’s so unnerving. I can’t stand to look at him. He is not my child, he is a monster” Young Subaru was traumatized by her verbal abuse saying that ‘He is not important’. His father always stops the fight and chaos done by his mother by comforting her. Even though the situation was horrible, Subaru still loves and respect his mom. In the story it been said that his real mom gets unstable whenever she notices Subaru red eye. This can be due to Mental illness that she may be suffering from (Unsure – not mentioned in the story).

### *Ray*

> *The self-asserted leader when you meet in the nightmare world, Ray comes off as cold and bossy. Always the voice of reason, the medical student has low tolerance for nonsense. But, perhaps there is a softer side to him? What could he be hiding under that gruff exterior?*
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Ray is tall, handsome medical student, who is studying to become a Doctor. He is Studious often seems cold person but has warm heart. He has dark brown eyes with red hair. He wears a green shirt with his University jacket and white pants. He has a great leadership Qualities which makes him a great leading person. He has pretty much low tolerance of nonsense communication. Ray gets irritated from Thoma a lot because of his illogical sense. He even order the whole group to meet him in 'Standbelle Plaza' at morning 10 am to which people followed, but Licht’s absence was found.

#### History (Full Spoilers)

Ray has pretty much dark history when we get to know his past from the visions in the ‘Nightmare world’. He was beaten by his mother and abused emotionally. But then too he loves his mother so much. Ray was very terrified from his mother when she get angry and starts beating about his less marks and poor performance in school, He shrink himself in the corner of the room. When older Ray with older Thoma watches the vision they became very speechless and very disturbed. In the vision it was shown that Thoma is big brother of Ray who tries to protect him from their abusive mother. Before when both brothers don’t know about the past, they always fight for MC to get her attention but in the end Subaru wins. Ray cherishes Thoma, after knowing that Thoma is his real brother. When Thoma was about to know his past, Ray was very frustrated and afraid about this (‘The reason is still unsure').

### *Thoma*

> *Always the life of the party (even in life or death situations), Thoma is lighthearted and constantly cracking jokes. Everything feels a whole lot better with him around. But he sure does have a way of getting under Ray’s skin for some reason. Could someone that cheerful and optimistic be harboring dark secrets?*
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Thoma is tall, handsome, cheerful physics student. He cracks funny jokes even in life and death situation. Mostly he messes with Ray a lot which makes Ray very frustrated of him. Thoma is ‘easy-to-go’ person; he makes everyone comfortable in the “Nightmare World”. He has a very friendly personality. He has Dark brown eyes with blond hair. He wears dark blue T-Shirt with Light Blue jacket and a dark blue pant with red scarf tied to the waist. MC is very much comfortable around him than anyone else in the team.

#### History

It was seen in the story that Thoma was excited to know his past but Ray wasn’t, he fell into pieces when he gets to know the abusive past. Thoma and Ray both were abused by their mother. Thoma always help his small brother (Ray) when beaten by their mom. In vision when their mom was beating Ray or looking him in a room, Young Thoma always stops her by pulling her back. But as his strength is very less he can’t do very much to stop the domestic abuse. Once in this situation young Thoma accidently injured his mother with the scattered glass to which his mother starts bleeding, Due to blood loss she died. “Thoma thus accidently killed his mom by stopping the abuse” the guilt he always carries which makes him depressed. After knowing the past he starting to say that it was not his mistake and he did it for Ray. He did not accept his past which killed him by the monster. The monster called him ‘Murderer’.

### *Licht*

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> The most mysterious of the bunch, Licht calls you by name when you meet him in the nightmare world, but you’ve never met him before. Have you? You can never seem to find him in the real world. Why does just the sight of him make your heart ache and your eyes water? You both feel a strange connection and familiarity with each but can’t explain it. Could Licht be the key to solving the mystery of the nightmares?
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Licht is a young tall, innocent person who remembers the MC name even thought they both remember that they haven’t met each other. Licht is very understanding person and supports MC. He wears White T-shirt with brown pants. After waking up from coma he is shown in white sweater and blue jeans and green long jacket.

#### History

Mc, Ray, Thoma, Subaru found Licht in the orphanage’s Record Room’s hidden room sleeping while following Licht’s young past vision. Licht’s father is Silas Ackerman who owns Orphanage. Licht with the orphans used to live in ‘Bluebells Orphanage’. They were pretty great friends but Licht was very close to MC. Licht’s father wanted Licht to be the main subject of the experiment as he never have bad memories but due to several reason like pulse dropping he went into coma. The successful side was Ray, Subaru, Thoma, Monica, and MC herself forgets their memories which include bad and good too. The bad memories of all of the 5 children were transferred into Licht’s memories resulting his own good memories fade. Thus Licht was in coma in real life but technically he is living in The “Nightmare World” where all the fragments of the bad memories of all 5 children are growing.

## ***Side Characters***

### *Monica Collins*

Monica is one of the Orphans at orphanage who was a great friend of MC. She has green eyes with brown hair. She wears white dress with blue long jacket. When introduced in the ‘Nightmare World’ she says herself a student of Fashion Designing. She have a boyfriend who is very cool she was snuggling with him which was warm and cozy in the couch, further she says but Thoma cut interrupts her. She with her boyfriend owns Fashion Blog which was pretty famous, people looked her as a fashion inspiration. Monica in her early age in orphanage made MC comfortable when MC was introduced first.

In the very first episode she killed by the monster due to neglecting the rules of the ‘Nightmare world’ by going towards the vision and not accepting the past but in the real world she died with Neural Damage (Serious Brain Damage). “Sleeping and Dreaming are the functions of the CNS – Central Nervous System thus Monica’s death makes logical sense because living in the nightmare world is nothing but part of dreams”, Ray suggest.

### *Anna*

Not much is discussed about Anna here; Just a University student goes to same University with MC. She is the first Characters shown in the story. The old friends of MC left her but she feels great with Anna.

### *The Adoptive Parents of MC*

As MC was adoptive by the family, she was very much loved and cared by them. The parents hide the fact of being adoptive thus not to create misunderstanding and fight. They loved MC thinking their real child. The relation between both the parents with MC is good.

### *The Real Parents of MC*

Not much is shown about the real parents of MC. Just a flashback shows about the glimpse about their personality. The real parents purposefully left MC in the garden saying they will be back; but they didn’t. Young MC starts crying and the voice can be heard by Silas Ackerman (who owns the Orphanage) so he adopted her. It’s clearly being shown that young MC went through Trauma of her parents leaving her and Ackerman wants to clear the memory of her.

### *The adoptive parents of Ray*

Ray’s adoptive parents were considerate, and wealthy. His mom is shown in the story before she headed to a business trip. When Ray asked about being adopted, she said the truth by saying there was a middle man in the process of being adopted.

### *The real parents of Ray and Thoma*

They are abusive in nature; they hit and physically abuse their child. Which cause a lot of trauma to suffer for Ray and Thoma at a young age, that’s why Ackerman wants to clear the brothers memories. It is shown in the orphanage that Ray was trying to fit in the orphanage environment while Thoma was shown alone and depressed child.

### *The Adoptive parents of Thoma*

It is clearly shown that the adoptive parents cared him a lot. They were considerate, and loving. Thoma when was told about being adopted, the parents don’t wants to hurt his feelings so they answered in a truthful way. When Thoma died his parents cried a lot. They gave Thoma’s car to Ray in order to not let them remind that their child died.

### *The Real parents of Subaru*

Although Subaru have his Adoptive parents, the story mainly focus on his real family. Subaru's real mother was mentally ill and due to this she was little abusive in nature. She calls him Monster because her mental health get triggered of Subaru's red eye. Subaru's dad was considerate but he can't be much of help to Subaru. Talking about Adoptive parents, Subaru didn't talk a much about them in the story. Even his memory is wiped he still wears a blue eye lens in his red eye in real time, it can show that people in real time didn't like his red eye. But in Nightmare world his Heterochromia is seen.

### *Silas Ackerman (The Father)*

In this story Silas Ackerman is shown as shadow character. He is very gentle and kind person. Silas Ackerman was ‘The father’ of all Orphans including his own son Licht. He owns the ‘Bluebells Orphanage’. The construction of the orphanage was started 20 years ago (from where the Incident occurs). The picture of the unfinished building with an address in the caption was written in the book that Subaru investigated which was taken 7 years ago. At first the father was the one who wiped orphans (including Licht’s) memories, but then we came to knows further in the story that, he actually had a good intention of clearing those past memories which haunts the orphans. In order to let the orphans live their lives peacefully. He died in the Basement in the Orphanage (Government found him and killed him). Ray, Subaru and MC found fresh Blood marks in the walls.

## ***The Experiment***

The Experiment was conducted by Silas Ackerman - the owner of the Orphanage but the reason of this experiment was in good intention. In order to conduct the experiment Licht was the major subject and rest all 5 orphans were minor subject. So in order to approve the Experiment they ask for agreement of Licht to which he says, “Yes”. Silas Ackerman Explained to his son Licht by 5 Glasses and a pitcher of water that his assistant gave. He says to Licht, “Imagine that these five glasses are your Friends so can you tell me what’s inside them?” Licht answer, “There is nothing” to which Silas Ackerman explained, “No, There is air. Your friends are carrying something inside them that we can’t see which is fear and loneliness” to which Licht’s Expression gets sad. Furthermore he lifts up the pitcher of water and stars filling empty glasses equally he says, “This pitcher is you, Licht, you are full of wonderful memories, your good memories will displace those invisible, painful memories like the water in the pitcher does to glasses”. To which Licht get question mark face about the pitcher getting empty, Silas Ackerman promises Licht, “Don’t worry your water in the pitcher (good memories) won’t run out or the pictcher won’t dry”. In conclusion he added, “We can make plenty of memories to replace those you give away. I’m sure your friends would be happy to help, you know this experiment can’t be completed without you”. The clock strikes at 10 at night and Silas Ackerman waves Licht Good night (Which suggests that the old members getting sleepy and entering the “Nightmare World” at 10 o’ clock is connected to the Bluebells Orphanage).

The main reason of this experiment was to remove the bad and hurtful memories that haunts all the 5 children and replaced them with Licht’s good memories. But it failed resulting Licht’s memories faded and all the 5 children’ memories perished. It all happened when all those children including Licht were 8 years old thus; it explains why all of them have blurred memories of their childhood. The Experiment was partly funded by the government but when it got failed, the government was off their hands in this situation and blames it all on Silas Ackerman. The government then came after him to punish him but Silas Ackerman was successfully avoiding the institution for 10 years. Silas Ackerman died just 1 week ago before this ‘Nightmare World’ situation took place (Which suggests that government killed Silas Ackerman after 10 years ago, after his death the incident of moving into the ‘Nightmare World’ started). Silas Ackerman when alive was guilty about his actions as he wrote in his dairy (which was found in the Record Room) stating, “How has it come to this? Licht your father is a wanted man” further he added, “I’m terribly sorry for putting your life and your friends at risk and I am to pay for my sins”. The situation was more likely to be as a ‘scapegoat’, Ray comments.

When in the real world, Ray with Subaru and MC finds Licht’s living body they were happy that Licht is alive and they can make a way to rescue him. In the record room there were medical supplies lying around, there were numerous tubes attached to Licht’s body with an oxygen mask which shocked them that Licht is continuing to survive with the help of his father.

Ray accesses the older data from EEG (Electroencephalogram) to compare the activeness of his brain. In the dairy it is written that his alpha waves were erratic during REM sleep which is caused by the stress and trauma of all 5 members inside his brain. Ray also checked his eye from the torch which suggests that Licht’s Oculomotor Nerve was damaged which is ‘Aneurysm’.

## ***The Nightmare World***

MC notices in the ‘Nightmare World’, there are no clocks which they can use to keep track of time. Ray’s wristwatch stopped working but it shows that the Time stopped at 10 o’ clock; they started thinking that there is no Time in this world. Then Thoma share his knowledge about Time, he’s perception regarding ‘The Nightmare World’ was the first information told in the story. According to him, ‘The Nightmare World’ was a different universe in different dimension. He says, “Time is construct. Physically impossible to freeze, given the laws of Physics on Earth”, further he added “The only way we can stop time, theoretically, is to be in a place where the scientific laws allows it but the lack of clocks doesn’t necessarily mean time has stopped, It could also mean Time is still running, we just don’t know how quickly it does.” Furthermore he added, “But Traveling to a different dimension would require deliberate effort like creating a rift in space and go through it; like a portal, which we didn’t do it” (He explains that Time is still working in the ‘Nightmare World’ but we don’t understand how fast it does which suggest that we are not in different dimension).

During the process of finding the Licht’s body in the cold records room in which the password was Licht’s Birthday (L0129 – 29th January). Ray shares his theory about the ‘Nightmare World’ which was right. He compares the situation from a ‘Mental Illness’ called “Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple personality Disorder” (DID/MPD) by saying, “DID often have multiple personalities, means there are multiple consciousnesses in one brain. So if we imagine a nightmare World as a Licht’s brain then Licht can’t handle 5 people worth Trauma which causes a separation of the memories from his consciousnesses. So the world is a Licht’s brain and the monsters are his different personality and Licht himself is a primary identity. What we (Subaru, MC, Ray) are doing is Recovering our memories and removing the identity” to which Subaru and MC agrees.

The work done by all the members (Including MC) before coming into the Nightmare World was:-

1)  Thoma was browsing the Internet, it was nothing unusual.

2)  MC was waiting for her/his favorite TV series.

3)  Monica was with her Boyfriend snuggling in the couch.

4)  Ray was studying his medical books.

5)  It is not known that what Subaru was doing.

It is to be noted that they all fell sleepy at 10 o’ clock and they experienced ‘Tinnitus’. Further more in the story, we understand that the ‘Nightmare World’ is Licht’s Brain where all the bad memories of Ray, Thoma, Monica, Subaru, MC herself were growing but in all this, Licht’s memories were blurred. This happens due to the bad result of the failed experiment that was conducted by Silas Ackerman.

Ray, Thoma, Subaru, and MC went into public library in search of ‘Bluebells Orphanage’ in the city history archive. Ray looked for medical journals for memory and mind manipulation. Thoma accessed old archives from the web. MC and Subaru searched for old newspapers of the city. MC found old picture during construction of Bluebells Orphanage’s in the library section of “Through the years, a photograph collection”. Ray found about Hypnosis says that, “in our case, our mind have been manipulated. There are lots of studies about transferring, deleting, or creating fake memories. The safest method is theoretically hypnosis, but there are also cases with rather gruesome techniques, and most of those were unsuccessful. Some people ended up dying.” Thoma found about one of the ‘Geddit’ thread (alternate – Reddit) which was block by the city, but he somehow managed to dig into it somehow. There was who thread of conspiracy theories about Bluebells Orphanage. The user, who started it, claims that orphanage was actually a font for conducting human experiments in which other user claimed that they heard eerie and moaning sounds. “In that ‘we’ (Ray, Subaru, Thoma, Monica, Licht, and MC) may be part of the experiment”, as Ray says.

## ***The Choices [VIEWER DISCRITION IS ADVICED!!!]***

There are only 2 choices that have life or death situation. That’s why the result is based on the player’s choices. Both the choices are non-premium (no diamonds) thus making the player choose freely the options but only one shall be correct to choose.

1st choice

a)  Ignore Thoma.

b)  Stop and Listen. (Right choice)

This is the first choice player will interact in the story. The story as follows as Monica following the vision alone. That can be dangerous, so player had to make choice to go after Monica or stop there as Thoma scold MC to not go alone but together.

If you chose 1st option, you will ignore the Thoma’s warning and run towards the corridor where Monica went, but soon you will encounter the body in a horrible condition (bloods spreading around in the stairs). Monster finds you while grieving and kills you where the story ends.

If you chose 2nd option, you will listen Thoma and Subaru warning and decided not to take reckless decisions where your life is saved. The group decides to go together towards the corridor and they encounter the dead body of Monica but this time when monster arrives they beat him.

2nd choices (last choice)

a)  Shield Thoma.

b)  Look Away.

c)  Distract the monster. (Right choice)

The story goes as when Thoma was attacked by the monster due to his ignorance, people there wants to save Thoma by telling him to accept his past. The choices can be pretty much intense if the player has Romantic attraction towards Thoma. You have 3 options to choose to get further into the story.

If you select the 1st option, MC will run in between the monster and Thoma thus protecting him. But instead of monster stopping into the tracks, it kills the MC (She felt warm sensation in the stomach as she sees, it’s the blood) But Thoma is saved. Last moments when she watches Thoma, Thoma is crying aloud and grieving then the story goes blank as it suggests story is over.

If you select the 2nd option, MC will look away from the horrible incident. The monster will kill Thoma and Ray, leaving you feel guilty. The game goes blank; it suggests the game is over.

If you select the 3rd option, You pick the shard of glass and distract the monster, Subaru does the same. Licht helps MC while Ray and Subaru attack the monster. But the monster already killed Thoma, leaving everyone alive. This option is the perfect option to further continue to the story; you will learn Thoma’s dark guilt in his last breath.

**[That’s why Thoma is not the main player in the story; it is shown that even series gives him a less chances with diamonds. Neither simple play - through nor premium play - through can change the death of Thoma as well as Monica.]**

**[In the end, Licht gets help from the Government secretly when he woke up from coma like medical help and financial aid]**

## ***The Endings***

*If you choose Subaru in the End :-  After Licht woke up from coma, MC and Subaru starts dating few days later, they both meet in the city park, admit their love for each other, share a kiss in the park.*

*If you choose Licht in the End :- After Licht wakes you up, you commit your childhood love and attachment to Licht. Few days later Licht starts living into MC house, they share an ice-cream, share a kiss in the streets.*

*If you choose Ray in the End :- After Licht woke up from coma, MC and Ray stays friends but few, months later Ray proposes to MC to which MC says yes .Both share a kiss under the moonlight.*