Sharpay Rauser

Sharpay is a love interest and Manson's fiancée in *The Hole of Love.* She is an Inanimate, a literal pencil sharpener hallucinated into corporality by Manson.

## Sharpay Rauser

"Dear doctor, Manson's sanity has only been clinging onto a spider's thread. So thin, so delicate... I wonder what will be the final push."

## Appearances

#### Appearance

Sharpay is a tall woman with a large bust. Her head is a pencil sharpener with sharp teeth able to express. She has a teal pencil skirt, bow, and white gloves. This appearance is entirely hallucinated by Acevedo in order to better understand Manson's plight, though Manson's dialogue aligns with her description.

#### Personality

Though cordial at first, Sharpay reveals her true colors as the game progresses. She is highly manipulative and determined to control Manson at all costs. Using seduction, lying, or even assault is not beneath her.

#### History

Manson met Sharpay in the arts and crafts room, three hours before the start of the game's events. The couple immediately began flirting and preparing the wedding. Sharpay claims to be a patient of Clark County who lives in the women's section, but is unable to elaborate further about her past, to her own confusion.

#### Story

As the game progresses, Sharpay becomes increasingly frustrated with Acevedo's attempts to get rid of her. Eventually she snaps and bites Acevedo's leg in an effort to kill him. Depending on the choices made, Sharpay has a variety of fates. She can successfully and lethally "consummate" with Manson, forced to watch Manson die before lethally "consummating" with Acevedo, can be stabbed to "death", or can be cuckholded by Acevedo stealing away Manson. If the player obtains all five endings, a bonus illustration depicts Acevedo throwing her headfirst into a woodchipper.

## Relationships

#### Antonio Acevedo

Due to Sharpay being a hallucination of Manson, not to mention a physical danger due to her sharp teeth, Acevedo was determined to stop her consummation with Manson by any means necessary. He heavily despised her manipulation and tore apart her logic. Sharpay disliked Acevedo as well, considering him a danger to her existence. At one point, Acevedo is given the option to seduce her, though comically fails due to his homosexual preferences.

#### Furniture Women

Sharpay appears to be on great terms with the Furniture Women, even inviting the trio to her wedding. She refuses to join the trio's clique though, calling them "hooligans". Due to her ability to see other hallucinations, Acevedo points this fact out to Manson in order to convince him of Sharpay's Inanimate nature.

#### Manson Moss

Sharpay is deeply posessive of Manson and attempts to isolate him from Acevedo. She convinced Manson she was a real human and that they would have many children together. Even when attacking Acevedo, she refused to injure the interfering Manson, though previously she did smack her fiancé for rude comments towards her. When she "died", Manson was heartbroken.

## Trivia

* Sharpay is Jewish with Manson preparing to convert. Acevedo pointed out this inconsistency to Lamp who was dressed as the presiding priest and planning to marry the couple.
* Sharpay is the only Inanimate so far shown to explicitly "die". While Inanimates are unable to bleed, red dust and pencil shavings gushed from Sharpay's torso when stabbed.
	+ Her woodchipper death parodies the famous woodchipper scene from *Fargo*.
* Her theme song is "Miss Pencil Sharpener" with three variations.