While the biggest mystery in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Medium may be the Niwa Massacre and the ಞ168澳洲幸运5开奖网:identity of the mysterious caller, 🔴Thomas, Sadness, the first spirit that Marianne meets in the abandoned hotel, is also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:something of a mystery for the majority of the game. 🔴Being Marianne's guide through Niwa, as well as dropping several subtle hints as to her nature and identity along the way, Sadness is a gripping character that keeps the story൩ engaging throughout The Medium's short playtime.
While the nature and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:identity of Sadness are🍎 eventually revealed, it's also very easy to miss aspects of her characte💖r on a first playthrough, with many of her story and character elements only being clear on repeated playthroughs of The Medium.
10 🌞 She's A Fragment of Lilianne's🌄 Spirit
Although she is pr♚esented as the spirit of a dead child and victim of the Niwa Massacre, Sadness is actually a piece of Lilianne's spirit that has been split off from the whole in order to guide Marianne to the truth of what happened all those years ago. While not much about Lilianne's powers are known, the one aspect that is known is her ability to split pieces of her spirit off that act independently of their host while also being in control of them if necessary.
9 🅷 She Wasn't The Only Fragme🎃nt
It was hinted at that Sadness was once one of many spirits that roamed Riwa, though the others became victims of Maw's hunger for death and destruction. Though it isn't known why Sadness was left for l🧸ast or how she was able to avoid Maw for so long while the others were devoured, it may be due to her ability to disappear at will, something that Marianne probably found incredibly annoying by the end of the game.
8 💟 She Wasn't Always Known As Sadness
When Marianne first meets Sadness, she reveals that she wasn't always known as Sadness, but she can't remember the name she used to have. While this could simply be her avoiding the fact that she is a fragmen𓆏t of Lilianne, it could also mean that she wa⭕s actually a different fragment before being known as Sadness.
Lilianne's powers are one of the biggest mysteries in The Medium and aren't fully explained by the end of the game, so players will likely have to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:wait for DLC or a sequel in order to understand exactly what Sadness mean🔜t by this claim.
7 🦩 ﷺ Her Missing Arm Is Never Explained
One of the more striking aspects of Sadness' design is her missing right arm, a trait th🦹at isn't seen on any other spirit in The Medium and is never explained by the end of the game. This could simply be a way to differentiate her from other, similar child spirits like Henry and Richard's inner child, but it could also be a result of an attack by Maw, as they apparently love to devour everything they can get theirꦰ hands on.
6 She Always Dis🐈appears Right Before Monsters Show Up ♋
One trait about Sadness that isn't shared with other spirits in The Medium is the fact tha𝓰t she can seemingly disappear from Marianne's view at the drop of a hat. While this starts out as simply being a way to build tension in the situation at hand, just about every time Sadness disap♏pears like this, it's right before Marianne has to face off against Maw, Hound, or Childeater in the very next area. Seeing how she apparently knows when a monster is coming, giving Marianne a little heads up might have been a nice idea.
5 ✤ ꦚ The Ball Is Never Explained
Before Sadness appears on screen, she is always preceded by a small, toy ball, similar to the one seen in the Pixar opening. This ball always seems to appear whenever Sadness is around, but the toy is never explained and doesn't seem to be a part of her or Lilianne's character. Later in the story, the pla🌜yer gets to explore the Red House, Marianne and Lilianne's old home, but both of the sisters seem to gravitate towards either butterflies or dolls, with no sign of any balls in either the material or spirit worlds.
4 She Has A Similar Butterfly Motif To Marianne ౠ
Speaking of butterflies, a common motif in The Medium is some kind of moth or butterfly that appears fairly frequently, either on Marianne's person with the half-butterfly medallion she wears around her neck or the spirit but♑terflies that appear to accost her at different points in the story.
However, a huge hint that Sadness is connected to Marianne is in her dress, which has the image of a large butterfly printed on the lower half. Later in the game, it seಞems as though Marianne had an affinity for butterflies w🐟hen she was younger, so the butterfly on Sadness's dress may have been a way for Lilianne to get through to her sister.
3 𒊎 She's The Only Spirit With A Different Voice Actor To Her Host
For the majority of the cast, a respective character's spiritual half is played by the same actor who plays their host, which is a good way to connect the two characters without outwardly expressing their connection. However, Sadness is one exception to this as she doesn't share a voice actor with either Maw or Lilianne, something that seems to be a way for the game to hide thꦯe fact that the ﷺthree are intrinsically linked.
2 She And Lily Share A Voice 🦹
While Sadness doesn't share an actor with Maw or Lilianne, she does, however, share a voice actor with Lilianne's younger self, Lily. Although this version of the character isn't shown all that often, it does cause both the player and Marianne herself to rightfully assume that Sadness is the dead spirit of Lily, which turns out to only be half of the story when it is later revealed that Sadness isn't a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dead spirit.
1 🔥 She Can Remove Her Mask
One of the most striking aspects of a spirit is the porcelain 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:masks that hide their faces. While the mask seems to be molded after the face of the spirit's host, the masks themselves neve🤪r move and force the characters to express their emotions in other ways than their facial expressions. While Richard and Henry's child spirits never take off their masks, Sadness briefly does, though her back is turned to the camera so the player doesn't see what lies beneath. Considering the horrific imagery of the rest of the gameও, players can probably assume that whatever is under Sadness's mask isn't something they would want to see.