Viola/Dialogue

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These are Viola's dialogues.

Everybody's Looking for Something

Intro, The Marshes

(Before Battle)

If current partner is Kayleigh:
  • Kayleigh: I’m a little concerned about this...
If current partner is Eugene:
  • Eugene: The more opponents, the better the workout, right?
If current partner is Meredith:
  • Meredith: Ugh, typical. There’s always something trying to kill us, isn’t there?
If current partner is Felix:
  • Felix: ...Oh. I guess this was an ambush.
If current partner is Sunny:
  • Sunny: We’re being attacked!
  • Mysterious Woman: This country shows no kindness, strangers.
  • Mysterious Woman: Come – let us match these beasts in number!

(After Battle)

  • Mysterious Woman: ...
  • Mysterious Woman: You would do well to leave before those fiends return...
  • Mysterious Woman: You surely have no reason to remain in such a place as this.
If current partner is Kayleigh:
  • Kayleigh: At least let us thank you! Who are you?
If current partner is Eugene:
  • Eugene: C’mon, we’re battle buddies! At least tell us your name.
If current partner is Meredith:
  • Meredith: Nice hat. Who are you, anyway?
If current partner is Felix:
  • Felix: That was a pretty dramatic fight. Can you at least tell us your name?
If current partner is Sunny:
  • Sunny: That was very brave of you to help us! Who are you…?
  • Mysterious Woman: I am Viola of Messaline.
  • Viola: I am no fighter, but this land has thrust such a role upon me.
  • Viola: I do not wish to trouble you with my burdens.

(Choice between "What is your burden?" and "Are you on a quest?")

  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: My brother and I were both cast to the seas.
  • Viola: If I have not drowned, perhaps he too came to rest upon these shores...
  • Viola: I have been searching for some weeks now. A kind soul gifted to me this curious device, with which I may protect myself.
  • Viola: If you hear word of my brother Sebastian, my camp is just east from here.
  • Viola: Fare thee well.

(At Viola's camp)

  • Viola: We meet again. How fares thee?
If chosen "Where might your brother be?":
  • Viola: I know not.
  • Viola: He is resourceful. If he dwells in this country also, then I believe he too will be searching for me.
If chosen "Why are you travelling alone?":
  • Viola: I do not know this country, nor do I know its customs.
  • Viola: Its people are strange to me. For my safety, I make this journey alone.
If chosen "Why do you talk like that?":
  • Viola: From my perspective, it is thee who speaks with a curious dialect.
  • Viola: Perhaps I am further now from my own land than I would have first assumed.
If chosen "Goodbye!":
  • Viola: Farewell.

(Encountering Sebastian)

  • Sebastian: TELL MY SISTER... SHE IS TO MEET ME HERE...
If current partner is Kayleigh:
  • Kayleigh: Was that Viola’s brother? We should tell her...
If current partner is Eugene:
  • Eugene: That was pretty weird, huh? C’mon, let’s go tell Viola.
If current partner is Meredith:
  • Meredith: I, uh, don’t know what to make of that. We should tell Viola I guess.
If current partner is Felix:
  • Felix: This story is getting weirder. C’mon, we should go tell Viola we saw her brother.

(At Viola's camp)

  • Viola: What’s that – you saw a vision of my brother?
  • Viola: You must tell me more.

Camera fades

  • Viola: I see...
  • Viola: My brother may still be among the living, or perhaps only his soul instead lingers...
  • Viola: I must know for sure. <player>...
  • Viola: If it is not too great a task, could you take me to the place you saw him?
If chosen "Sure!":
  • Viola: Let us travel with haste.
  • Viola: You can rest your worries – the road will offer little danger with me at your side.
If chosen "Not now.":
  • Viola: I understand. I shall remain here for now, then.

Quest Start, Cast Iron Shore

  • Viola: This is the place?
  • Viola: My brother, if you are in this place... Speak to me.
  • Viola: Let us search this place, and then be rid of it.

(Sebastian appears aboard The Titania Shipwreck)

  • Viola: Brother?!
  • Sebastian: I have waited many moons to meet you, Viola of Messaline.
  • Sebastian: I have such delights to share with you.
  • Viola: ... You do not deceive me, spirit. I shall not play your games.
  • Sebastian: No? But the night’s festivities have not yet even begun!

Sebastian's form dissipates

  • Robin Goodfellow: COME, VIOLA OF MESSALINE.
    YOU SHALL FIND YOUR FAMILY WITHIN.
    FOR I AM YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER.
  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: I spare little faith in the words of this spirit. But if it knows of Sebastian, and my name...
  • Viola: Perhaps it speaks the truth.

(Encountering the haunted painting)

  • Robin Goodfellow: CARE TO DANCE, COUSIN?

(After the battle)

  • Viola: No. You are not my kin, spirit.

Bard Street Station

(Before Entering)

  • Viola: This must be the lair of the spirit who keeps my brother from me.

(Choice between "I think it’s an Archangel..." and "I don’t think it’s a spirit that’s in there...")

  • Viola: Whatever spirit, fairy, or devil seeks an audience with me...
  • Viola: I will not falter!

(Before Battling Robin Goodfellow)

  • Viola: ...I was expecting more.

The lights dim

  • Robin Goodfellow: I MUST ASK FOR QUIET, PLEASE.
  • Robin Goodfellow: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE...
    AND THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
  • Viola: What “show”? Who are you?
  • Robin Goodfellow: WHY, I AM BUT A MERRY WANDERER OF THE NIGHT...
    THEY CALL ME HOBGOBLIN, AND PUCK...

The lights turn back on, revealing Robin Goodfellow.

  • Robin Goodfellow: I AM ROBIN GOODFELLOW!
  • Robin Goodfellow: AND YOU AND I, VIOLA OF MESSALINE, SHARE MUCH HISTORY.
  • Robin Goodfellow: I DISCOVERED THIS BOOK AMONG THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP.
    A CURIOUS READ.
  • Robin Goodfellow: LET ME SEE...
    PAGE 645 – “TWELFTH NIGHT”.
  • Robin Goodfellow: THE COMEDY OF VIOLA OF MESSALINE, WHO IS SHIPWRECKED ON AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY.
  • Viola: I do not understand...
  • Robin Goodfellow: AH YES, HERE I AM:
    PAGE 365 – “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”.
  • Robin Goodfellow: A STORY OF FAIRIES: OF KING OBERON, QUEEN TITANIA, AND THE TRICKSTER ROBIN GOODFELLOW.
  • Robin Goodfellow: MY DEAR VIOLA... YOU AND I?
    WE ARE MERELY INVENTIONS OF A MORTAL PLAYWRIGHT – A MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, IN PARTICULAR.
  • Robin Goodfellow: OUR STORIES ARE NOT OUR OWN.
    SEBASTIAN IS NOT HERE. HE WILL NEVER BE HERE.
  • Robin Goodfellow: YOU WILL ONLY FIND YOUR BROTHER WHEN YOUR TALE DEMANDS.
  • Viola: . . .
  • Viola: Does this “Robin Goodfellow” speak the truth, <player>?
  • Viola: Are these stories he reads... known in your world?

(Choice between "It’s true." and "I’m sorry.")

  • Viola: Thank you.
  • Robin Goodfellow: YOU KNOW I SPEAK THE TRUTH.
  • Robin Goodfellow: LET THE TRUTH OF IT WASH OVER YOU. LET IT PULL YOU INTO ITS DEPTHS UNTIL YOU CAN NO LONGER GASP FOR AIR.
  • Viola: I believe...
  • Viola: I believe your “truth” changes nothing.
  • Viola: It may be that in <player>’s land, I am but a story.
  • Viola: Who is to say <player> is not a tale in mine?
  • Viola: This future that has been written for me is but words on paper!
  • Viola: I defy them!
  • Robin Goodfellow: HA HA HA!
    HOW UNEXPECTED!
  • Robin Goodfellow: THIS PLAY IS EVEN GREATER THAN I COULD HAVE HOPED!
    COME, LET US SEE THE FINAL ACT!

(Mid-battle against Robin Goodfellow)

  • Viola: <player>...
  • Viola: The overwhelming hand of fate may push against us, but...
  • Viola: We shall not perish upon this day!
  • Viola: Our story does not end here!

(After Robin Goodfellow is defeated)

  • Viola: We would be wise to return to our place of safety...

Relationship Level Scenes

Relationship Level 1

  • Viola: Thank you for accompanying me on this quest, <player>.
  • Viola: I believe Robin Goodfellow was wrong.
  • Viola: It may be that my life is but a story in other realms, but...
  • Viola: It matters not. My future is mine to write.
  • Viola: I will find the end of my story on my own terms.
  • Viola: But from the moment we tied our hearts together in battle, you have become part of my story too.

(Choice between "'Tied our hearts'?" and "What do you mean?")

  • Viola: I refer to our moment of union in our great battle. When we became of one body, I felt our fates intertwine also.
  • Viola: Whilst we may have since parted, I feel that the threads of fate are not so easily disentangled.
  • Viola: You say that you know of a doorway to leave this land?

(Choice between "That’s right!" and "I do.")

  • Viola: Perhaps if this is found, then I shall be reunited with my brother.
  • Viola: Very well! Let me repay my debt: I shall aid you in your own journey.

Relationship Level 2

  • Viola: It has become apparent to me, as of late, that many elements of life in this town are foreign to me.
  • Viola: The good people of Harbourtown speak in ways I find peculiar.
  • Viola: And lamplights illuminate themselves with no lamplighter! There is much I do not understand.

(Choice between "I suppose you do come from a Shakespearean past..." and "I guess this is like the future from your perspective!")

  • Viola: Yes. And these "cassette players" you use to take the form of spirits and beasts.
  • Viola: And melding your spirits together with your allies. This is normal to you?

(Choice between "Uh, no, that's still weird." and "That's just a New Wirral thing.")

  • Viola: I see.
  • Viola: So there are aspects of this land familiar to you, but some that even you find strange.
  • Viola: It is true: I am indeed a long way from Messaline, both in time and place.
  • Viola: If this realm has delights unfamiliar to me, I ask of you this:
  • Viola: Perhaps you may share some of these with me, in time?
  • Viola: I wish to experience these new things, before I return to my home country.

(Choice between "Before you return home?" and "You're going to leave?")

  • Viola: Is it not your quest to find passage off this island?
  • Viola: I can see it in your eyes! Your heart is not so easily hidden from me, friend.
  • Viola: Do not worry - I shall aid you however I can.
  • Viola: You shall always have in me an ally and a friend.
  • Viola: Very well! Let us dally no longer.

Relationship Level 3

  • Viola: The popular establishment, the "Gramophone"...
  • Viola: It does not sell ale, correct? But instead this "coffee".

(Choice between "That's right!" and "I'm pretty sure that's the case.")

  • Viola: And the people of your time consume this "coffee" in great quantities?

(Choice between "They sure do!" and "Perhaps too much.")

  • Viola: Enlightening.
  • Viola: I wish to experience the coffee, as the good people of Harbourtown do.

(Viola produces a red flask and a cinnamon roll.)

  • Viola: As such, I have acquired a flask of this beloved beverage. A gift from Clémence.
  • Viola drinks a cup of coffee.

(Choice between "What is your verdict?" and "What do you think?")

  • Viola: It is a hearty drink.
  • Viola: The appeal is clear to me.
  • Viola: And as for this sugared pastry she also gave me so kindly...
  • Viola: What would you call this?

(Choice between "It's a cinnamon roll!" and "Did Clémence give you a cinnamon roll, too?")

  • Viola: The flavours... The sweetness...
  • Viola: And yet it is gone so quickly, a pure and fleeting joy.
  • Viola: Goodnight, sweet roll.

(Choice between "So you liked it?" and "So this was a success, then?")

  • Viola: Yes, I would say so.

Relationship Level 4

  • Viola: In my efforts to learn about the many realms outside of Harbourtown, I have acquired some documents of great significance.

(Choice between "Learning material?" and "Are you doing research?")

  • Viola: Yes - my time here on New Wirral has shown me that my understanding of the world I lived in was but a grain of sand in an endless ocean...
  • Viola: Truly, there are many realms like the one I hail from - such as your own, dear <player>.
  • Viola: I asked friend Meredith for her aid, and she provided me this tome.

(Viola brandishes a paperback, Goosebumps-style book with a picture of Mothman on the cover.)

  • Viola: She insisted that it was a valuable read, this "Spooktales" book.

(Choice between "I think this is a horror fiction book..." and "I don't think you're going to learn anything from this book.")

  • Viola: Indeed, I have concluded that the accounts within are imaginary.
  • Viola: However, I must draw your attention to Chapter 5 - much of which describes effective ways to slay the living dead.
  • Viola: Do we not fight monsters on a regular basis? Perhaps there is more that can be learned from this document than you may have first assumed.
  • Viola: Nevertheless, I think Meredith lent me this book simply out of a love of the macabre.
  • Viola: It was an enjoyable read! Perhaps I shall request more books from her.
  • Viola: Come! I wish to put my newly acquired lessons to practice!

Relationship Level 5

  • Viola: There are matters I would wish to discuss with you, friend. Do you think we could leave this place for somewhere peaceful?

(Choice between "Sure!" and "Not now.")

If chosen "Sure!":

(Viola sits with the player on a bench next to Felix's house.)

  • Viola: I must say this:
  • Viola: The people of Harbourtown live unburdened by expectation, do they not?

(Choice between "What do you mean?" and "I don't quite follow.")

  • Viola: No lords to please, no king to kneel before...
  • Viola: Free to find purpose in one's own actions. I envy such a life.

(Choice between "Was your previous life complicated?" and "What were you doing before you came here?")

  • Viola: My family name is one of great repute and wealth, but ill fortune had fallen upon us.
  • Viola: My brother and I were tasked with reaching out to a family friend in another country, so that they may aid us.
  • Viola: But as you may surmise, my ship did not reach those shores. And the land I found myself on was this one, a dream land of spirits and beasts.
  • Viola: How easy it would be to forget my kin, and remain here.
  • Viola: It would be a happy life, one of the finest company.
  • Viola: For this land has you, my dear <player>!

(Choice between "You'll always have a friend in me!" and "Do you think we could be more than friends?")

If chosen "You'll always have a friend in me!":
  • Viola: This, I cannot deny.
  • Viola: We have many paths left to walk together.
  • Viola: Very well! Come, friend, let us drink of the "coffee".
  • Viola: And then we shall journey onward once more!
If chosen "Do you think we could be more than friends?":
  • Viola: "More than friends"?
  • Viola: Speak plainly: in what manner do you see me?

(Choice between "I see you as a good friend." and "My heart longs for you.") Choosing "I see you as a good friend." plays the previous "You'll always have a friend in me!" dialogue.

If chosen "My heart longs for you.":
  • Viola: I...
  • Viola: You have a way with words when the occasion arises, friend.
  • Viola: I wear my heart upon my sleeve. I cannot deny my feelings.
  • Viola: Your beauty has always been clear as daylight to me.
  • Viola: Come, dear <player>...
If chosen "Not now.":
  • Viola: Another time, then.

Romance

  • Viola: You have a curious look about you, <player>. Do you have something you wish to confess?

(Choice between "I want us to be together." and "Nothing in particular!")

If chosen "I want us to be together.":
  • Viola: I…
  • Viola: Are you asking for my hand in marriage, <player>?
  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: I jest. We are time’s subjects, and one day time will bid us gone from each other’s company.
  • Viola: It would be too much to bear to marry you, knowing that one day this waking dream will end and we shall return to our lives as they once were.
  • Viola: Yet, there still remains many days and nights by each other’s side.
  • Viola: I agree to your wish. Henceforth, we share a union of hearts.
  • Viola: Perhaps, in another realm far beyond our imaginings, a humble playwright is telling our tale as we speak.
  • Viola: “Viola & <player>: the comedy of two lovers stranded together.”
  • Viola: I believe it would make for a wonderful story, don’t you think?
If chosen "Nothing in particular!":
  • Viola: My mistake, friend.

Campsite and Gramophone Café Conversations

  • Viola: ...So you mean to tell me that in your realm, travelling from one country to another takes hours, and not days?
  • Viola: Could such a thing be possible? I daren't even imagine it!


  • Viola: I have not been in this land for long, but find myself missing my home so dearly.
  • Viola: And yet, it occurs to me that many of the poor souls here have been stranded here far longer than I.
  • Viola: I do not think I could bear such a thing. The people here must hold such quiet sorrows upon their shoulders


  • Viola: I know that the sky above us is not the same one I would watch from my chamber window as a child...
  • Viola: But for a moment, I can pretend it is. I can pretend to myself that home is but a day's ride from here, and I can just as quickly be among family and friends once more.
  • Viola: I am sure part of you must feel the same, <player>.


  • Viola: Tell me: what is the name of the monstrous form you wear in battle?
  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: <first tape name>? It suits you, in a curious way.


  • Viola: It has occurred to me that this island brings together unlikely bedfellows.
  • Viola: People from countless walks of life, who may never have crossed paths otherwise, become compatriots when lost alongside each other on this lonely land.
  • Viola: You and I would certainly not have met under any other circumstance!


  • Viola: If I were to one day leave this place, I would be foolish to speak a word of my time here.
  • Viola: An island beyond the countries of Earth, inhabited by spirits and fae creatures?
  • Viola: My friends would think me a mad woman!


  • Viola: When the trees stand still for a moment, and a quiet briefly settles across this land...
  • Viola: There is a silence here that feels truer than any I could possibly experience elsewhere. It is a silence that cuts deep, that you can feel under your very skin.
  • Viola: The knowledge that nothing in this realm lies beyond this sole island...
  • Viola: Such a solitary place could not be imagined by most men.


  • Viola: I hope we soon find our way home from the strange dream we find ourselves in.
  • Viola: I hope one day to regale my brother with stories of the devils I have overcome.


  • Viola: Tell me, <player>, do you not find this land's methods of dueling in the guise of fae beasts to be a strange one?

(Choice between "It is pretty weird, yeah!" and "I find it fun!")

  • Viola: So curious it is! And yet the kind people of this land do it without a moment's hesitation or worry.


  • Viola: We have not journeyed together for long, dear <player>, but it feels like we have lived a lifetime of stories together already!
  • Viola: Perhaps that is the true purpose of this land: those who step foot upon its shores are fated to leave with many tales of their adventures.

Gramophone Café

  • Viola: I have visited many a tavern in my home country, yet none held such a quietness as this place.
  • Viola: It is enjoyable! I can envision many a happy time has been spent within these walls.

Before completing Everybody's Looking for Something

  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: I am sorry, friend, for I have little conversation within me at this moment.
  • Viola: You and I have not known each other long. You may have offered me your help, but I have few words to offer in return.

After completing Everybody's Looking for Something

  • Viola: I am thinking once again of the words of the trickster Robin Goodfellow.
  • Viola: He said that he and I are the creation of a playwright. That our stories were already written for us.
  • Viola: I did not let his words crush my spirit, of course. As I said - my story is mine to write and mine alone.
  • Viola: Still, it is a curious thing for one's own tale to exist betwixt the pages of a book in another land. Do all stories work in such a manner?
  • Viola: Perhaps in one realm, one may find the "Book of <player>"! I am sure it is a riveting read!

After romance

  • Viola: Come, dear <player>. I know we must return to our quest again shortly...
  • Viola: But we can afford some stolen minutes spent together.


  • Viola: Say, dear <player>, have I not regaled you with my tales as a travelling performer?

(Choice between "You were a what?" and "A travelling performer...?")

  • Viola: Yes! My brother and I would sing and act for friends and various audiences, on occasion.
  • Viola: We did not need the money, of course. Finances were of little worry for most of my life. The merriment was its own reward.
  • Viola: Tell me; you must have concealed talents of your own. I greatly wish to know more about you, if you'll permit...


  • Viola: To fight alongside your lover in battle, wearing the form of a strange creature...
  • Viola: It is a kind of romance in itself, is it not? If action is eloquence, then our bouts are poetry.


  • Viola: Do you read poetry, my dear <player>?

(Choice between "Yeah!" and "Not really!")

If chosen "Yeah!":
  • Viola: I am glad to hear it!
If chosen "Not really!":
  • Viola: It is no matter - perhaps I shall teach you!
  • Viola: As much as man needs the cook to nourish their stomach, so too do they need the poet to nourish their heart.
  • Viola: I believe it is a cruelty to oneself to starve one's heart of such nourishment.
If the player goes by she/her pronouns:
  • Viola: Given our present union, perhaps we would do well to enjoy the works of the Greek poet Sappho? I shall attempt to locate a book of her poetry in our travels.


  • Viola: Thank you - this moment of rest has not gone unappreciated, <player>.

After discovering Night's Bridge Station

  • Viola: Do you believe it, <player>? Do you believe that the doorway you found will lead us back to where we once lived?

(Choice between "I have to!" and "I believe it!")

  • Viola: Wonderful! As much as I have come to admire this brave new world, I know that it is not any of our fates to remain here forever.
  • Viola: But if it is your wish to remain here but a while longer, I shall stay also. We are young, after all. Time does not beckon us to be gone from this place as of yet.

After defeating Aleph Null

  • Viola: The battle with our foe Aleph was a grand one, was it not?
  • Viola: I am more of a fighter than I thought. Perhaps I should instead live the life of a soldier!

(Choice between "Yeah!" and "I guess you could say that!")

  • Viola: Though as a woman, I would not be permitted to do so. Perhaps I should once again disguise myself as a man...

(Choice between "Huh?" and "'Again?'")

  • Viola: Does this surprise you? I am a performer at heart! Man and woman are merely costumes in my wardrobe, to wear as I will.

Passive Dialogue

Upon finding a destructible rock when you have Bulletino Dash unlocked

  • Viola: This stone has seen better days. It is my belief that it would break if you struck it with enough force.

Upon finding a magnetic pylon with Electromagnetism unlocked

  • Viola: That metal object has a curious blue aura. Do you not see it also, <player>?

After approaching the gravestones in Aldgrave Tomb Station

  • Viola: This is a half-hearted attempt to fill our hearts with fear. Do not fall for it.

In Glowcester Road Station

  • Viola: Is that a mushroom? The flora and fauna of this land continues to surprise me.

In Falldown Mall

  • Viola: Such vast and silent halls...

When near the battery-activated switch that reveals Cherry Cross Station

  • Viola: This mechanism is curious. It appears like one half of a whole...

After falling down in Cherry Cross Station

  • Viola: What trickery is afoot now?

In Waterloop Station

  • Viola: A stream... Perhaps we could find its source?

In eastern Lost Hearts Graveyard

  • Viola: I pray that I one day leave this land, and will never be laid to rest beneath a headstone here.

Outside of Glaistainbury Abbey

  • Viola: This church has seen happier years...

In Cast Iron Shore

  • Viola: Let us pass quickly through this fog and filthy air.

On Brokenhead

  • Viola: A land above the clouds... Yet another wonder that leaves me at a loss for words.

Near the sticker merchants in Harbourtown

  • Viola: Perhaps we should converse with the kind merchants of Harbourtown?

On the pier in Harbourtown

  • Viola: The smell of the sea is strong here... I am all too familiar with it.

On the western part of Harbourtown Beach

  • Viola: I have stood upon the shores of many lands. This one is perhaps the strangest.

On the bridge in New Wirral Park

  • Viola: I can see my reflection in the pond below! How charming.

On the narrow path in the Southern Isles

  • Viola: Watch your footing here - this path is as narrow as they come.

In Cherry Meadow

  • Viola: There is beauty in this land, but do not let one's guard down.

In Eastham Woods

  • Viola: Do you hear the bird's choir among the trees, <player>?

In the Marshes

  • Viola: This land does not welcome our presence. Let us pass through quickly, <player>.

In Mt. Wirral

  • Viola: I shall not let this sudden winter bring me discontent!

In New London

  • Viola: A dead wind blows across this place.

In the player's house

  • Viola: I see that you have not dwelled here long.

In the player's house, after romance

  • Viola: Were you wanting to spend some private time in each other's company, dear <player>?

Character Interactions in Gramophone Café

Viola and Kayleigh

  • Kayleigh: Viola, I gotta ask…
  • Kayleigh: Where did you get that sleeveless jacket? I’ve never seen anything like it in New Wirral before!
  • Viola: When I washed up on the sands of this lonely isle, I found an old soldier’s jacket cast aside on the beach.
  • Viola: The sleeves were of an ill fit for me, so I simply removed them.
  • Viola: It must be said that I have grown quite fond of it.
  • Kayleigh: You’re so cool... I’m definitely crushing on you a little bit right now.
  • Viola: Are you confessing your unending love for me, dear Kayleigh?
  • Kayleigh: Hey, I’m not THAT easily won over!

Viola and Eugene

  • Eugene: ...So you washed up on New Wirral after being shipwrecked in a storm, right?
  • Viola: Yes, that is correct.
  • Eugene: And you’re looking for your twin brother, Sebastian…
  • Eugene: This just sounds really familiar and I don’t know why. Are you famous? Have we met before?
  • Viola: I can assure you that I am no-one of notoriety or interest. As for whether we’ve met? I’m sure I would remember someone as spirited as thee, Eugene.
  • Eugene: I guess so. Still, your story seems so familiar…

Viola and Meredith

  • Viola: I must confess, dear Meredith, the way in which you fashion yourself is unlike any I have seen before – in my country, and in this one.
  • Meredith: I’m not sure if that’s a compliment or not.
  • Viola: I mean no insult. You seem unconcerned with aligning yourself with the appearance of those around you. It implies a deeper confidence in oneself.
  • Viola: I find you rather admirable in that regard, dear Meredith!
  • Meredith: Uh, thanks mate.

Viola and Felix

  • Viola: Surely, Felix, you have longed for freedom upon the seas? To sail to lands that are not yet even a splinter upon the horizon?
  • Felix: Well, finding freedom in my life is important to me, but sailing the seven seas isn’t entirely what I have in mind.
  • Felix: Working for myself and living on my own terms, though? That sounds pretty good to me.
  • Viola: Perhaps you would also find fulfilment on the sea. You will never truly know for sure without setting sail!
  • Felix: I suppose not!

Viola and Barkley

  • Viola: What a brave new world, to have such animals such as you in it!
  • Barkley: Arf!

Viola and Sunny

  • Sunny: ...Do you have fond memories from your times travelling, Viola...?
  • Viola: ...Fond memories? The finest! The wind in my hair one night, and the warm bed of a tavern the following moon. Upon one night I may be found dining with friends of my father; the next I may be performing poetry in fair Verona.
  • Sunny: ”Fair Verona”... that sounds like a nice place...
  • Viola: It... may be so, yet I must confess: I happened to have stolen the heart of a maiden of high standing in Verona and caused a local feud, the likes of which escalated most devilishly. I do not intend to return.
  • Sunny: ...You do have a lot of stories, it seems!

Viola and Frankie

  • Frankie: ...I guess I read a lot about romance for someone who has no interest in it myself.
  • Frankie: Is that weird?
  • Viola: I see what troubles you, dear Frankie. You ask if there is a contradiction in your passion for romantic and lustful prose, despite your own reluctance to partake in such dramas yourself?
  • Frankie: ...I guess so...?
  • Viola: If you wish to know my thoughts; I would say that you need not worry. Perhaps your heart’s desires shall change as you age, perhaps not.
  • Viola: Enjoy the things you love, and love those around you in the way that pleases you most. This is a fine way to live one’s life, I believe.
  • Frankie: Viola you are SO cool, do you know that?!
  • Viola: I’m hearing such reports as of late!

Mer-Line station and Archangel encounters

Station and platform reactions

Entering a station for the first time

  • Viola: This place feels unwelcoming... more so than the rest of this strange land.

Entering a station for the second time

  • Viola: The air here sits heavy in my lungs. This place has been in slumber for an age, I can feel it.

Entering a station for the third time

  • Viola: Another one of these old and curious places. I would not like to be here longer than is necessary, <player>.

Entering a station platform for the first time

  • Viola: This is no place for us, <player>. The very floor beneath our feet cries out as such: we are not welcome here.
  • Viola: Can you not feel it so? A sense of wrongness that lingers in the air, making it hard to breathe.

Entering a station platform for the second time

  • Viola: That accursed feeling is here again, <player>. It leaves a well of dread within me.
  • Viola: To step further feels like wading through an ocean...

Entering a station platform for the third time

  • Viola: I am slowly becoming accustomed to this hostile feeling in this place. After all, have we not braved it several times before now?
  • Viola: Yes, we must press on. It would take more than this unpleasant aura to stop me.

Archangel reactions

Encountering an Archangel for the first time

  • Viola: This spirit! I have not seen another like it... It is as if it is not meant for our world.
  • Viola: To even look upon it feels heretical.

Encountering an Archangel for the second time

  • Viola: Another spirit which defies all rational thought! I can barely keep my gaze upon it...

Encountering an Archangel for the third time

  • Viola: <player> - it is another one of those fell spirits! The ones you call "Archangel".

Encountering Poppetox

  • Viola: I sense no kindness in this spirit's words.

Hitting Poppetox's effegies

  • Viola: Our quarry is quick on its feet, and our strikes are missing their mark. Alas, I believe there must be a way to discern where it intends to leap to next...

Defeating Poppetox

  • Viola: That spirit saw us as mere toys. Let that be a lesson to us that their kind and ours are not alike, even in the slightest.

Encountering Heckahedron

  • Viola: Is this spirit a philosopher of sorts? Or is it simply in the grips of madness?

Defeating Heckahedron

  • Viola: If there was method in that spirit's madness, I did not see it.

Encountering Alice

  • Viola: My respect is not so wantonly given, spirit.

Defeating Alice

  • Viola: I will not bow to anyone who speaks so brazenly to me, royalty or otherwise.

Encountering Lamento Mori

  • Viola: I fear death not - a brave death outweighs a coward's life.

Defeating Lamento Mori

  • Viola: Cowards die many times before their deaths, but the valiant never taste of death but once.

Encountering Babelith

  • Viola: Folly and ignorance are the common curses of mankind. Both are already plentiful, spirit.

Defeating Babelith

  • Viola: That spirit had little sense left in its words. Perhaps its defeat at our hands shall humble it.

Aleph retrospectives

Seeing Aleph for the first time

  • Viola: Have you ever seen a sight as curious as that figure who appeared to us earlier? Not the spirit we fought, but the man whose head was not there...

Seeing Aleph for the second time

  • Viola: That spirit appeared again to you - the one whose face is that of a mirror. What could his untimely appearance mean?

Seeing Aleph for the third time

  • Viola: That spirit - the one who's face reflects my own back at me - appeared to recognise you, <player>. What machinations could it be devising?

Seeing Aleph for the fourth time

  • Viola: That spirit with the mirror face seemed to wish to speak with you, <player>. I advise you to be wary of any words it might have to share with you.

Seeing Aleph for the fifth time, after completing the intermission

  • Viola: The spirit "Aleph" was there to intervene in our battle once again. Perhaps he wishes to leave this country also?

Seeing Aleph for the fifth time, before completing the intermission

  • Viola: The spirit with the triangle head was there to intervene in our battle once again. A curious being it is...

Seeing Aleph for the sixth time, after completing the intermission

  • Viola: What agenda may our foe "Aleph" be devising? I do not trust the plans of spirits, <player>.

Seeing Aleph for the sixth time, before completing the intermission

  • Viola: What may that spirit with the mirrored face be planning? I do not trust the plans of spirits, <player>.

Seeing Aleph for the seventh time, after completing the intermission

  • Viola: We may have bested the mighty spirit, but the spirit Aleph intervened to rescue it. I cannot help but notice a pattern...

Seeing Aleph for the seventh time, before completing the intermission

  • Viola: That spirit who appeared to us - the one with the mirror face - what does he want?

Seeing Aleph for the eighth time, after completing the intermission

  • Viola: Our foe once again escaped our grasp due to the untimely arrival of the spirit known as Aleph. How uncouth.

Seeing Aleph for the eighth time, before completing the intermission

  • Viola: Our foe once again escaped our grasp due to the untimely arrival of the mirror-faced spirit. How uncouth.

Seeing Aleph for the ninth time, after completing the intermission

  • Viola: If this "Aleph" were anything but a coward, he would confront us directly! Instead he exits the scene with great urgency.

Seeing Aleph for the ninth time, before completing the intermission

  • Viola: Surely the mirror-faced spirit should be courteous enough to introduce himself to us, no? His untimely appearances are not welcomed at all.

Here Comes The Sun

(Conversing with Helia)

  • Viola: Then you are behind the Rogue Fusion creatures!
  • Viola: I am familiar with the "fusion" of New Wirral, but what is this talk of stars and cells?

(After being told about The Mer-Line)

  • Viola: We shall not be defeated by a mere labyrinth, <player>!

(After meeting The Mer-Line)

  • Viola: ...
  • Viola: Perhaps this “Mer-Line” speaks the truth.

Pier of the Unknown

Night's Bridge Station

Magikrab's Gauntlet

(When encountering Viola)

  • Viola: To face oneself like this is a test of one's character... Come, let us fight shadows!

(When Viola is on her own)

  • Viola: There are more things in heaven and earth, my opponent, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

(When Viola is the first fighter in a pair)

  • Viola: Come, let us match our foes in number!

(When Viola is the second fighter in a pair)

  • Viola: Very well! Let us dance!
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