Lorie Bartholy

**Lorie Bartholy** formerly known as **Lorie Edwards** is the adopted younger sister of Nicolae, Peter and Drogo, as well as Viktor's youngest adopted daughter. She portrays as a neutral and recurring antagonist throughout other story routes. In Viktor's route, she is revealed as the daughter of both Anabelle Edwards and Maxwell Edwards.

## Appearance

Lorie has very long pink hair with a full fringe which is tied in a style of *odango* with two matching bows on each side and has hazel eyes. When she has tantrums or does not want to be left behind by the player, her eyes become red when she turns into a vampire.

She wears four outfits within her portrait as some of her outfits worn by young adults such as the player which is proven her unusual style of dress.

Her main outfit is a pink sleeveless dress with a white short-sleeved shirt with three buttons at the center, the sleeves of her shirt appear with puffy sleeves, white socks, and black dress shoes.

Her second outfit is her Elementary school uniform

Her third outfit is her winter casual attire which shows her unusual dress sense, is a brown and white checkered winter dress with a white long-sleeved button shirt while wearing both her sock and shoes from her main attire.

Her fourth outfit is her sleeping attire as she wears a white sleeveless shirt with blue trim and white capris and her hair let loose.

## Personality

Unlike kids in her age, Lorie is described as a calm, stoic yet smart little girl with a mean and bratty streak. This is due to her being an authoritarian. She has a very impish personality when she plays with her toys or with the player in a very dangerous game such as both strangling and kidnapping. The players frequently annoy her because of her behavior which they can retaliate by casting a spell in order to discipline her. Despite her behavior, she is also close to the Bartholy brothers as Nicolae was the one who takes care of her when the player was away. She can directly follow her siblings as the players thought of her when she was pretending to get close knowing of her bad behavior.

Lorie also inhibits her vampiric abilities by pushing the player away after she keeps scolding her for her actions. Lorie also has an unusual dress sense whenever she dresses up with matured clothes which indicates that she wishes to become a fine woman despite her age.

Lorie is also given firm discipline by both Nicolae and Peter throughout both his and Drogo's stories when she frequently hurts the player in her vampiric state especially for disrespecting her due to her spoiled nature by ordering her around, calling the player her maid and taking her to the basement which is forbidden. In Sebastian's story, Nicolae angrily scolds her for involving herself in the player's private life which she frequently complains about her being at the university for her studies.

In Drogo's story during Chapter 10, Lorie's intelligence also allows her to inform Nicolae about both Drogo and the player's forbidden relationship and she couldn't care less about her brothers when both Nicolae and Drogo are dangerously fighting each other in a fist-fight before Peter broke the two of them up. Drogo also threatens her for the nasty acts she had done to the player when she tries to spend time with her in her room. But in the second season according to Drogo, Lorie manages to stop Viktor from beating Peter mercilessly for rebelling him which indicates the two of them have a complex father-daughter relationship, unlike her brothers. At the end of Chapter 8, Lorie is somewhat afraid of her other brother Conrad Bartholy when she warns the player about him for being Viktor's son. In Chapter 10 according to Peter, Lorie suffers from an anti-social identity disorder which contradicts her main personality. In the third and final season, it was revealed that Lorie had a long-standing friendship with Viktor and Cleo's son, Isaac Bartholy and the main reason why any people including the player to ask them to get inside the basement to free Isaac from his deep slumber in which her adopted brothers had forbade them to get them through due to Viktor's orders. Lorie's actions on freeing Isaac inside the basement also caused Nicolae to blame the player, thinking that she had freed him to endangered their lives while mistaken him as an evil creature.

In Viktor's story, this reveals Lorie's true parentage within the Edwards family which was found in Viktor's secret hidden files and being raised by her mother Anabelle Edwards. According to the files, Lorie develops her psychological behavior (the reason of her main personality) and being disliked by her father Maxwell. When her mother was killed, Lorie ends up being transformed by Viktor in 1839. As of the present day, most humans noted of Lorie's current age due to her immortality as a vampire stating she is not growing up.

In Conrad's story, she is mostly seen with Viktor and becoming disappointed to see her brothers are killed but not knowing it was Viktor who instigated the car accident at the bad ending.

All other story routes show that Lorie can be happy and enjoyable to her brothers as well as the player if she likes to go to the mall but sometimes she can throw tantrums or turn into her vampiric state if the player doesn't want to play her dangerous games rather than an actual good game which causes her to leave the room in annoyance and threaten to play with her when she returns to the manor after school.

## Allies

* The Main Character (Drogo) (sometimes)
* The Main Character (Peter)
* The Main Character (Sebastian)
* Viktor Bartholy
* Nicolae Bartholy
* Peter Bartholy
* Drogo Bartholy
* Conrad Bartholy
* Isaac Bartholy
* Sarah Osborne (sometimes)
* Mark Leviels

## Enemies

* The Main Character (Drogo) (sometimes)
* The Main Character (Nicolae)
* Elena Gabe
* Sarah Osborne (sometimes)
* Charles Huxley
* Descendants of the Templars

## Trivia

* Lorie's main role in Mystery Spell resembles Claudia from the film  *'Interview with the Vampire'*.
* Her odango hairstyle on her portrait bears a resemblance to Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon from a wide acclaimed meta-anime series, *Sailor Moon*. As the color of her hair resembles Chibiusa Tsukino/Sailor Chibi Moon who also dons her hair in odango style but in a rabbit ear-shaped.
	+ In one episode in *Sailor Moon SuperS* when both Usagi and Chibiusa switched bodies by the Lemure, Usagi's child appearance resembles Lorie's until they were returned to normal by Pegasus/Helios.
* She's one of the 5 characters to be both an antagonist and protagonist depending on the route. The other four being Jenny Blake, Drogo Bartholy, Loan Huxley and Thomas Gordon.
* She's one of the nine original Mystery Spell characters.
* She was the first child in the Is it Love? series.
* She was the first and only character to have pink hair.
* In the beginning of Chapter 1 within the second season of Peter's route, the writers mistakenly wrote Lorie's name as Laurie.
* Lorie is the only character that has visible tears when she is sad.
* When Lorie was on the rate the game ad, she was seen in her pajamas while having her hair in pigtails, she is never seen with this outfit & hair ensemble in any of the games since she always has hair down when wearing her sleeping attire.
	+ In the ad, her stuffed animal is seen to be held very high up against her chest, in the games however, she always holds her stuffed animal below her waist.