

Though Mio saw this and ran immediately to get help for her sister, Mayu saw her running as a sign that she had been abandoned there in the dirt.

The twins were playing on a steep forest path, and in her struggle to keep up with Mio, Mayu slipped and fell into a ravine, injuring her knee. It takes the fear of abandonment, separation anxiety, and the desire to run from its stifling influence and imbues it into an upsetting, deeply personal, and chill-inducing narrative of loss, blood curses, and the oaths of sacrificial lambs.Ĭrimson Butterfly follows twins Mio and Mayu Amakura - the former an independent and protective sister, the latter a girl with abandonment issues caused by an incident with Mio. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly manages this in spades. Horror games seek to evoke real, primal emotion with varying degrees of success. In Deep Crimson Butterfly, his vanishing ghost appears twice in the Tachibana House, and during the Crimson Butterfly Ending, a brief glimpse of Itsuki and Mutsuki's ritual can be seen.“The two chosen children will be carried to heaven on the wings of a butterfly.”.While he is mentioned frequently, Mutsuki only appears on the ghost list and in the Promise Ending of Fatal Frame II.Mutsuki's surname Tachibana means "standing" (立) ( tachi) and "flower" (花) ( hana/ bana).The three stand together, looking up as the crimson butterflies leave the village. In the Promise Ending, the spirits of Mutsuki, Itsuki, and Chitose are reunited. The ritual failed, and Mutsuki never became a Crimson Butterfly. The twins performed the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual, but Itsuki's love for Mutsuki was too strong. The twins made a pact with each other that if their ritual were to fail, they would not to let Yae and Sae suffer the same fate they had. They also realized that if they were to run away, their close friends Sae and Yae Kurosawa would be next in line to perform the ritual. They considered running away to prevent participating, but according to Itsuki's diary, Mutsuki was too weak to attempt an escape when the time of their ritual drew near. Both he and Itsuki agreed that the ritual was wrong and believed that there had to be another way to appease the Hellish Abyss. Although Mutsuki was born first, the custom of Minakami Village declared him to be the younger twin. Mutsuki Tachibana was Itsuki's twin, and Chitose's older brother. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Director's Cutįatal Frame II: Deep Crimson Butterfly (Wii Edition)
