A nightmarish looking painting that you encounter in a dark room, it makes sounds and moves slightly when you look at it closely.
If Ib is almost close to the finish line, her mother scolds her, telling her that she's been looking everywhere for her.In two of the endings, Mary becomes increasingly upset and angry when Ib collapses in despair and refuses to get up.When she comes back, Garry has woken up and is very upset that she went off somewhere alone. She promptly finds a secret room, which has the same effect as wandering off would have. (Trying to sit down when artworks are about to attack, deciding to jump into a very, very deep hole.) At one point in the Bonus Dungeon, Garry falls asleep, after asking Ib to not go wandering off by herself. While usually Garry goes out of his way to be nice to Ib, there are points where he yells at her, usually after she tries to do something really stupid and dangerous.And you're given the option of slapping him again, too. If Garry fails the doll room event and goes insane, Ib gets upset and slaps him in the face.You've already lost Ib and Garry, and Mary's also screwed over, even if she doesn't realize it yet. Unfortunately, if you're playing as Mary, it means you're locked into the worst ending. However, under some very special circumstances, you get switched to playing as Mary. And Now for Someone Completely Different: Generally speaking, you play as Ib and in certain parts of the game you switch back and forth between playing as Ib and playing as Garry.If you ask him why he talks like that, he's vague about it. Ambiguously Gay: Garry uses lavender linguistics common of gay men in Japan, but this could be a personal choice that doesn't necessarily reflect his sexual identity.Alternate Calendar: The game's setting seems consistent with the modern world, yet the only date given is the year 6223 sometime in the past, suggesting they are not using the normal calendar.Depending on how things go, Mary might end up trying to attack Ib. Alone with the Psycho: At one point, while the girls are separated from Garry, Mary has a psychotic breakdown, and poor Ib gets to see Mary swing a knife around, become incredibly clingy to Ib, start wandering around saying nothing, and generally acting insane, and Ib doesn't know what to do about it.
all lowercase letters: In the English translation of the game, the ant in the green area and the white ant in the Bonus Dungeon both have their dialogue written in all lowercase.Alliterative Title: Carrie Careless in the In-Universe book, Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois.In one of the endings, she becomes Ib's cheerful, hyperactive sister, and in another decides to play with Ib, Garry, and the dolls in the art gallery. She's shown to have a friendly relationship with her fellow artworks as well. She also has Nothing Personal against Garry she just wants him to replace her in the gallery so she can go free. Clearly mentally disturbed, and tries to murder Ib and Garry, but genuinely wants Ib as a friend.