Ratri's Spirit

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Ratri's Spirit was an unidentified enigmatic spirit that Ratri made a deal with. He is a minor character in the overall game and has no interest in Tim or his goals instead desiring only to get what Ratri owes him.

## Personality

Unlike most of the other supernatural entities shown throughout the game, Ratri's Spirit appears for the most part to be neutral towards humans and their goals as he showed little interest in Tim and made no attempts to try to either aid or impede him on his journey.

He does appear to value deals and recognizes the importance of keeping his word, as he was very displeased once it became clear that Ratri had no intention of performing the naked dance for him or indeed honoring him in any way despite him paving the way for her success. In retaliation for her trying to cheat him, he horribly twisted her body to the point of death and later trapped her soul in the Spirit World as a dancing specter unable to ever perform unless she was fully clothed.

## Story

When a big performance was coming up, Ratri desired the role of the heroine for herself to lord over everyone else, but it had gone to a famed actress named Bua. Rather than practice or bribe the teacher (as Ming suggested) she went to the forest shrine with Ming following her. Ratri's grandmother had told her that these spirits could grant her any wish in exchange for promise. She offered to do a naked dance if the spirit removed Bua as an obstacle.

The Spirit agreed to these terms and made it so that Bua ended up having to leave town with her husband before the night of the show. Unfortunately for Ratri, her older sister, Tida would end up getting the role instead. In response, Ratri with the help of Ming, framed Tida for stealing causing her to be mutilated and killed.

A short time later, Ratri was sleeping peacefully in her room, unaware that the forest spirit was lingering outside her window. Ming burst into the room, waking her and reminding Ratri of the promise she made him for framing Tida. Ratri denied the promise feeling she was not obligated to give Ming anything for simply carrying out the labor part of her plan, when she was the one who both devised and set events into motion with the letter. She felt no remorse for her sister's fate at all. The Spirit, upon hearing this, understood Ratri was a liar and would not honor the promise she made to him.

Ratri's death was a result of a curse placed upon her for breaking her word, and killing her own sister. She was possessed by the vengeful forest spirit, her body forcibly twisted and convulsed in front of Ming who believed this was her acting at first. He then ran in horror as the curse took hold and Ratri's spirit left her destroyed body to be found later. Ratri haunts the dance school, unable to leave. Jane encounters her and futilely tries to stab her with the Novice Monk's Penta-metal knife, but easily subdues her.

Tim later encounters her in the dance school when he comes looking for Jane, and is forced to confront her in the auditorium and on stage. Ratri's ghost has the ability to possess mannequins, but only ones dressed in the garb of the heroine she desired so desperately to play. Only when Tim finds her real body and Ratri possesses it, and then stabs it, can Ratri be finally defeated. Even then, she has not passed on. The Shrine Spirit now makes her fulfill her promise by dancing for him, fully clothed, as the woman sobs.

## Trivia

* Due to Ratri being forced to dance and sing in front of him fully clothed, it's likely that she will be forever trapped with him in the spirit world for all eternity as she has no way of ever fulfilling her end of their bargain.