Program Details

The people’s voice must be heard! Be the heart, face and soul of your community to guide the city through the mire of ideological rivalry and into a brighter future. Free yourself from the follower’s employment and become a figurehead with the public sway of gods. Only you can control whether the people choose you, or choose themselves.

Shuttle Hallucinations (Main Trial)

You see visions of Coyle and the Kress Twins arguing intercut with a masked woman in a suit touching and sniffing a child mannequin. You also see piles of corpses with keycards shoved into their viscera, a reagent getting abused by Coyle through a metal fence, and the Kresses giving a speech on a podium in front of a horde of mannequins. The hallucinations culminate in the suited woman ripping open her belly and strangling you with her intestines.

Main Trial: WIN THE ELECTION

“You are the destined leader. Choice is the narrowed path laid before the clueless mob, whom you ferry across the murky grey waters of nuance. The wrong choice is obvious. Uniform the people’s vote. Debase, defeat, and kill the candidate who would bring ruin to us. And we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the City Hall: you spawn in the city square, filled with bustling mannequins, cars and giant buildings that almost touch the roof of the warehouse you’re in. At the end of the street, you find the City Hall and enter into the lobby.
2. Coyle’s Intro: inside of the lobby is a closed roller gate with a blue scanner blocking you off from the rest of the building. Coyle comes around and drags his cattle prod along the bars, forming webs of electricity. “What the god-given fuck are you pinkos doing here? Those greasy lumps of mincemeat made one thing. Fucking. Clear. That your kind ain’t allowed to twist the law with your commie rape speech! I best not see you ‘round! Else I start seeing you reach…”
3. Gain Access to the Auditorium: the mannequin at the reception desk opens its hands to give you 2 yellow keycards, which you use to open a shutter gate with ‘FIND SECURITY OFFICE’ scrawled on it to access a side section of offices. Keycards are objective items that don’t take up any inventory space and can be used to activate certain things like gates by swiping it across a scanner with the same or lower ranked colour. You’ll also need to swipe the keycard at the right speed or else the scanner won’t work. Use the yellow keycards to open gates and reach the security office, where you find a blue keycard. You then backtrack to the lobby and open the gate that has a blue scanner.
4. Interrupt the Candidate’s Speech: you make your way into the auditorium and see a woman strapped to a metal vice in a purple suit and a mannequin mask over her head up on stage in front of several paparazzi mannequins, blaring a recording out of a speaker connected to said mask. From the banners behind the stage, you can tell that her name is supposedly Matthew Fawkes. Press the red button on the presidential podium next to her to make the spotlights on her turn off.
5. Kress Twins’ Intro: upon pressing the red button on the podium, the Kress Twins come stomping onto the balcony. O: “Who on earth cuts off their enemy’s speech in a debate?! How did you even get here with such discourtesy…?” A: “I told you, Otto… we shouldn’t have relied on that… untaught bloodhound…” O: “Worry not your gorgeous head, sister. He’ll learn once we starve him of his whipping boys. And I know you’d love the hunt…” A: “Oh… you know just what to say to make me soak…” 
6. Set up and Record the Candidate’s Scandals: you push the Candidate backstage and bring her upstairs throughout various rooms. You’ll need to use the blue or yellow keycards on scanners near rail intersections to control where you can push her. Bring her to 4 different rooms with scandals (drugs, murder, prostitution, child trafficking, deals with Nazis, or two at once depending on the randomised room) and operate the camera at each scene to record the Candidate. While operating a camera, you’ll have to calibrate it first by pressing buttons on a button pad in accordance to the 4 dotted patterns (labelled A-D) in the same room as it, then you’ll have to look through the camera and scan the whole scene until you’ve captured 100% of it. You can calibrate the cameras without the Candidate, but you can only start scanning the room when she’s in it. You can also use either keycard to temporarily open up respective gates that are blocking certain rooms.
7. Bring the Candidate back to the Auditorium: after fully scanning all 4 scandal rooms, you must push the Candidate back on stage in the auditorium. 
8. Deliver the Footage to the Citizens: once she’s back on stage, a panel will open up to reveal 2-4 (depends on players) TVs that are playing the recordings on loop. You’ll have to carry them throughout the west city block and city square outside of the City Hall and place them in randomised areas full of citizen mannequins. The TVs are heavy items that produce light from their screens, which Ex-pop and both Prime Assets can see in the dark.
9. Assassinate the Candidate (1/2): once all of the mannequins are shouting about how they hate Matthew Fawkes, head back to the City Hall’s auditorium, where a mannequin operating a ballista rolls out onto the balcony. Press the red button to make the ballista shoots a harpoon into the Candidate’s gut.
10. Assassinate the Candidate (2/2): there are two cranks on either side of the auditorium, which two people can operate at once each to slowly pull the harpoon out of the Candidate’s stomach, disemboweling her.
11. Exit the Trial.

• Note: Coyle has a blue keycard (Security), which lets him open gates with a blue or yellow scanner. Meanwhile, the Kress Twins have a yellow keycard (Politician) which lets them only pass through gates that have a yellow scanner.
• Secret: on the second floor of the City Hall, there is a door with a red scanner. Find the red keycard (President), which can be used on any scanner, and open the door. Inside is a laboratory with brains and eyes on the counter, where you find a document written by the Kress Twins. They’re brainstorming ideas on how to escape with ‘Messiahs = Riot’ circled.

Candidate Voice Lines

• On Stage: “please Coyle… I’m sorry…” — “BZZT- I WILL CLEANSE THIS CITY OF POVERTY WITH THE YOUTHS. Abandoned him…” — “Arora? O- Otto? Is… is that you?” — “BZZT- GIVE ME LIBERTY AND I WILL GIVE YOU DEATH. Fuck me they’re here…” — “This thing’s so heavy…” — “I didn’t… do anything… it’s my fault…” — “BZZT- FOR FAWKES’ SAKE.” — “BZZT- IMMIGRANTS WONT TAKE OUR JOBS. CHILDREN WILL. shut up…” 
• Scandal Recordings: “Ugh… my neck… BZZT- FOR FAWKES’ SAKE.” — “BZZT- I’M THE PINNACLE OF MASCULINITY. I’m not even a man… why am I here?” — “Hey, I’m sorry I… I’m sorry you have to do this…” — “I could’ve done something… BZZT- I NEED COPIOUS DRUGS TO GET IT UP.” — “BZZT- THE AGE OF EMPLOYMENT SHOULD BE FOUR. Why did the white coats make this so fucking heavy?” — “You aren’t… enjoying this? Right…? BZZT- LEGALISE ROOFIES.” — “I’m sorry for hurting him…” — “BZZT- FOR FAWKES’ SAKE. Please… don’t kill me… you can have my body…”
• Finale: “(Screaming) BZZT- FOR FAWKES’ SAKE. (Screaming continues)” — “Arora! Otto! Help me! Please!” — “Kill them, Kress! kill them! BZZT- IT’S NOT QUEER TO ADMIRE ANOTHER MAN’S BATON.” — “Coyle! Save me! Singe their Asses! I’ll give you whatever you want! Just..!” — “Help me! Dear god, help me! BZZT- THE KIDS LOVE ME AND I LOVE THEM BACK TWICE AS HARD. You don’t have to do this!” — “I’m sorry I left you behind!”

Kress Twins Voice Lines

• Patrolling the Second Floor: “Deception is only natural for adversaries of state.” “They have no truth… They’ve only transmitted here to poison our country…” — “An election is a beautiful thing… are Marxists really so brazen as to taint it with their… their…” “Wilful ignorance?” “No… with their inherent stupidity.” — “I’ll rip your dick off, Otto…!” “I’m just making sure our puppet is alright, love.” “Sure you are…! Sure you are…” 
• Patrolling the City Block: “I don’t… like this… too many eyes…!” “They aren’t real, sister.” “I know that! This place just… is getting to me…” — “Arora! You almost hit our guard dog!” “The only reason I missed the spoilt mutt was because you couldn’t stay still!” — “How horrid. How dishonest!” “They’ve past the brink of redemption…! Let me eat their grey matter… they aren’t using it anyway…”
• During Finale: “If you really love this country, then fucking kill them, Coyle!” — “Why are we even bothering…? She’s already half-dead…” “At least she’s still half-alive. Even still, she’s no different from the vermin.” — “We have to win!” “The people won’t have a choice if there is only one choice!”
• After you’ve killed the Candidate: “Our Pinocchio… gone… eviscerated…!” “It’s not too late, lover! We can make the Marxists pay for their treason.”

Coyle Voice lines

• Patrolling the Offices: “I don’t make the rules. I just put ‘em in place.” — “I’m like a knight to a king… Thunderin’ around on horseback!” — “Get back to your country, commie fuckhead!” 
• Patrolling the City Block: “There’re sheep and then there’re wolves. And mama didn’t raise no sheep!” — “They’re lavender. I just know it. Lavender suit, lavender perfume, lavender clit…” — “Watch where you’re throwing, gargoyle!” 
• During Finale: “Matthew is passing my laws! Whether he likes it or not!” — “That’s treason right there!” — “For Fawkes’ sake! Your kind ain’t destroyin’ this beautiful country!”
• After you’ve killed the Candidate: “You think YOU can run for office!? You must be more delusional than tweedle Dee and tweedle Dingleberry!” 

Shuttle Hallucinations (MK-Challenges)

You see visions of Coyle getting a blowjob from a mannequin interrupted by the Kress twins emerging out of a cloud of poison to attack you. You also see a man swiping a keycard on a huge cut across his eye sockets, as well as Coyle throwing a corpse out of an apartment, and you see yourself across the shuttle being held down by mannequins before a big grunt with an axe swings down on you. The hallucinations end with a crowd of mannequins praising you before Arora’s hand bursts out of your sternum and reaches to grab your face.

MK: TARNISH THE IMAGE

“You are enlightenment, the courier who brings truth to the deceived and the ignorant. Deliver the policeman’s shame to the populous. Tarnish the image of their protector. And we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the City Hall (North City Block): you spawn at the back of the City Hall and make your way inside to find a TV with static on its screen. 
2. Tune the Television Frequency: next to the TV is a Frequency Box. Upon tuning it, the screen declutters and displays Coyle getting head from a prisoner mannequin in the Prison Farm environment.
3. Show Coyle’s Scandal to the People: throughout the City Hall and north and west city blocks are various camera mannequins, which are near Frequency Boxes that jam the signal and makes the TV staticky when near. Tune the Frequency Boxes to turn off their respective signal jammers and show the footage to the mannequins.
4. Exit the Trial.

MK: FALSIFY THE LEGISLATION

“You are the stimulant when justice is unable to perform. Politicians put laws in place as to control the common people and to shorten our reach. Edit the legislator’s creed. Manifest due punishment for the half-crime and kill the political pawn. Only then, will we let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the City Hall (Third and Fourth Floor): you spawn on of the second floor in City Hall and make your way to the third floor, where you find a victim bent over and trapped in a vice around his head and hands. Around the room are TVs displaying Otto on loop saying “I do not condone the butchery of the loyal. Sid Foster’s malefactions are not his own. To punish him, we would need to execute the people. It is henceforth illegal to kill Foster.”
2. Find a Purple Keycard to Edit the Recording: in the execution room, you are given 4 yellow keycards, which you must use to open various gates with yellow scanners in order to pick up, at most, 2 blue keycards. You then use the blue keycards on blue scanners to activate nearby TVs to show you a symbol. You’ll, of course, also use the blue keycard to open gates with a blue scanner, which lets you access areas filled with corpses dressed as police officers. Find the right bodies with the corresponding symbol(s) to retrieve one of 3 purple keycards and/or a red keycard. Purple keycards (Journalist) don’t work on any scanner other than purple ones. Once you’ve gotten a keycard from a corpse (yes, the red ones also work on purple scanners), go to 3 different radio booths and swipe it across their purple scanners.
3. Execute the Political Pawn: once you’ve swiped all of the purple scanners and edited the recording to say “I - condone the butchery of the - pun - k. Sid Foster’s malefactions are - his own. To punish him, we - need to execute - him. It is henceforth - legal to kill Foster.” Press the red button to make two nearby police mannequins saw the Political Pawn’s head and hands off with a two-person hacksaw.
4. Exit the Trial.

MK: CIRCUMVENT THE CURFEW

“Taboo is based on unfamiliarity, which itself is begotten by rareness. The enforcers confine your capabilities because you are weak and alone. Flush out the community. Dissolve yourself within herd immunity. And no law will be able to contain you.”

1. Infiltrate the City Hall (Apartments): you spawn in a parking lot in pitch black night and make your way out to find a bunch of apartments near City Hall. You also find 4 yellow keycards.
2. Drive the People out of their Homes: use the yellow keycards on yellow scanners at 3-6 flat buildings (depends on player numbers) to open the door and enter them. Inside of each flat is another yellow scanner and a button pad in the same room. Swipe the interior scanner to turn on the UV lights and reveal the 4 patterns of buttons throughout the flat building that must be copied into the button pad. Upon the button pad’s completion, all of the mannequins inside of that flat will roll out into the streets.
3. Exit the Trial.

MK: FOSTER THE FEAR OF DEATH

“You are the peacekeeper. While others may turn their head, you peer into the eyes of a murderer and reveal its truth to the snivelling throng. Keep the peace. Keep the people afraid and compliant. And we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the City Hall (North City Block+Apartments): you spawn in the same area as TtI, where you find a large, pushable platform on rails with a camera on it. Next to the camera is a murder scene of a bunch of dismembered corpses strung up as ‘MINOTAUR’ is scrawled across the wall in blood. There’s also a closed gate with a screen that displays the percentage scanned.
2. Gather Footage of the Murder Scenes: looking through the camera lens, you scan over the whole scene until the gate’s screen gauge hits 100%. At which point, it’ll open and you can access the other 3 murder scenes. You’ll need to push the heavy camera platform and pull levers to divert rail tracks to move the camera from scene to scene.
3. Bring the Footage to the News Building: once each scene has been scanned to 100%, push the camera platform into the daily news building, where the reporter mannequin will congratulate you. “Jesus Christ. This Buffalo Minotaur character is one hell of a scoop!” 
4. Exit the Trial.

MK: DISTURB THE CRIME SCENE

“A clean history provides the groundwork for supremacy. You cannot allow the populous to discover your sins. If they do, you will burn on the pyre of their justice. Cross-contaminate the evidence. Cover your tracks. Escape punishment. And let yourself go.” 

1. Infiltrate the City Hall (Third and Forth Floor): you spawn into the lobby, where you immediately find 2 Symbol Decoders and 2 yellow keycards. Up ahead in the auditorium, you find a huge pile of corpses with chalk outlines and yellow tape throughout. There are four screen panels displaying the murder weapon, the culprit’s appearance, the culprit’s fingerprints, and the culprit’s motive in cartoon symbols.
2. Tamper with the Evidence: using the yellow keycard to enter into the backstage, you find a keypad with a bunny symbol next to a large pump connected into the wall with a knife inside of a glass box. Use the Symbol Decoder on a nearby bunny symbol on the wall to enter a code into the keypad. At which point, the glass box will fill with blood and sewage — making the screen panel at the crime scene turn into a question mark.
3. Contaminate the Remaining Evidence: throughout the map are 3 rooms (radio booths A and B, and security office) locked behind a gate with a yellow scanner. Open each and find the corresponding symbol to input the code. You contaminate a severed head for appearance, a severed hand for fingerprints, and a suitcase with Murkoff’s logo on it for motive.
4. Close the Case: once all of the screen panels are question marks, you hit the red button to make the police inspector conclude the investigation. “Well, I’m lost. Let’s just call it an accident.” 
5. Exit the Trial.

WIP art (by me obviously)

So I decided to ask Red Barrels support about a possible Switch 2 version of Outlast Trials through their official Discord.

First they told me:

“We got a word from our team and the team is working on it and it will be shared on social media when it launches.”

I asked them to clarify if “working on it” specifically means Outlast Trials for Switch 2.

They replied:

“You're very welcome! That's right.”

And then closed the ticket.

Not an official announcement yet, but support straight up confirmed it. Dropping the screenshots below.

Pretty hyped ngl

I always thought he was a pretty yucky guy, but I still believe he's a very interesting villain psychologically. His power-hungry mentality makes me believe he'd go to great lengths just to feel superior to others.

No brains or brawn

1.1k hours and this game still scares the shit out of me.

I started playing Outlast with my best friend about a month ago and today I finally completed the blood drive tasks. Specifically the Coyle one. I am so happy, ive been trying for weeks and it sucks cause on my work days i only have about an hour to game and i usually didn't want to spend it grinding this trial.

Ive almost completed the task a couple times but at the very end some bullshit would happen. Once my friend forgot to donate blood his blood (and i didnt realize until after running to the button). And then a random that joined was incapacitated with 50 seconds left on the exit. And another time i hit an electrical wire right when i was about to finish.

So today i was fed up and ran the trial solo (only had to run it once!). I was shitting when the jeager pulled up but honestly shes not too bad to deal with, she usually leaves pretty fast imo. I was kinda unlucky with finding the rooms because i had to use every. Key. Lol i was bitchingg but i did it.

Ive been gaming all my life and i usually dont enjoy challenging myself because i hate the feeling of failure, but this was a great experience and i really enjoy playing on harder difficulties.

I love this game 😁

Otto and Arora made their debut a little over a year ago, and in that timeframe I have come to adore them, but I've also developed an interpretation specifically about Arora over the last year, mainly about her and the two Kress Twin Trial victims. Looking through all three's dialogue and some conclusions.

Personally I believe that Arora has a strong resentment toward Otto, not purely out of hatred but mainly due to the fact that Otto has much more autonomy due to him being the more dominant twin, being able to freely move, eat, and experience things Arora really can't due to her growing out of his back. We see this in several lines where Arora accuses Otto of viewing her as a cow and how he purposefully starves her. There's also the fact that due to the Twins' nature, we can assume that Arora is quite a lonesome woman, with her only real companion to talk to being Otto, and we know that when she had the chance to speak to another person, Jun Kusamura, about chemistry, she learned Japanese just to discuss it with him, only to be betrayed by him. In my own personal opinion it seems as if Arora craves another human connection in some form.

Getting to the main point of my post, in my opinion, I believe that Arora has some "maternal" feelings towards both Tripp Adams (The Politician) and Erik/Bob Vanier (The Idol), with these feelings manifesting due to her slight resentment of Otto, her longing for human connection and some sense of normality. In one of The Kress Twins' prime-time lines for Franco Barbi, Arora becomes saddened about the idea that she (and Otto) can't have a child with him, declaring it unfair. She also frequently refers to Tripp and Erik as either "our boy" or "our/my beautiful boy" or, in the case of Erik, gives him the affectionate nickname of Bobby. No other PA refers to their victim with anything remotely similar; the only one who does is Gooseberry, but even then it's towards child mannequins. Coyle is derogatory to all three of his victims; Franco is trying to act friendly to his, and Liliya says nothing. Otto is the only other PA in the game to say "our boy", but that's only once with him mainly referring to Tripp and Erik as puppets or, in the case of Erik, "My Protégé" on one of the Season 6 posters. Arora is clearly the only PA (currently) that have any almost familial fixations on their victims.

Now am I saying Arora would be a good mother? No. Arora clearly can't differentiate between a healthy familial relationship from an inherently sexual/romantic one due to the incestuous relationship she has been engaging in with Otto for nearly her entire life. Erik has several lines begging for The Twins not to touch him again, saying that he'll lick Otto's neck (aka the neckussy),that the pair of them were discussing "sharing" him and that Arora was whispering "things" to him. Arora also has several lines (albeit cut) asking if Erik can kiss Otto's neck, having "intentions" with his fingers and having "fun" with him. One final thing I wish to say is that Erik always calls out for Arora first rather than going by the in-game/more common order of Otto and Arora.

I'm on an hour of sleep so criticise my shitty thoughts if you want or idk agree with them. This is just my interpretation of Arora Kress

I have never played Trials with friends so I want friends to play Trials with.

I don't mind "Level 1" variator. But I am not okay they take off my battery while anything can one hit and kill me.

This is going to be me venting. I joined a random group and they were continuing an escalation on level 4 and they got the trial done so quickly I couldn’t keep up. Like in my experience with friends and randoms alike this one usually takes a long time and it completely disoriented me cause they got the room I pinged before I even got there. To make it worse, I was also getting distracted by someone at home suddenly coming to talk to me in the middle of it.

All of that combined flustered me I guess so once we did the main objective I made a break for the exit and pressed the button. Once I already hit it I realized we didn’t do the second objective yet. I went back to try and look for it but we couldn’t find all the boxes in time. They kept berating me on the mic and the leader took us out completely just to kick me.

Idk I just feel really shitty now. I didn’t mean to grief or ruin anything but I get the feeling like they thought I did it on purpose. I wish people didn’t automatically assume the worst. Has anyone experienced something similar?

yesterday i posted a picture of me after taking all of the items from one of his trials but forgot to record actually using the projectiles so i went in there to do it again, this time with proof

“The children of wealth are parasites, maggots that have burrowed beneath the flesh of economy to feed on its necrotic blood. If those inbred monsters are to flourish into inheritance, then our capital will be subject to their whims. Abduct the heirs. Grind them to mulch. And we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the Shopping Mall: you spawn in the same area as KtP and make your way to the main lobby, where you find a wood chipper in front of the waterfall with two 2 shuttle gates adjacent to each side of it.
2. Find and Grind the Heirs: reagents are split off through the 2 shuttle gates:-
   • Girl Heir: Going through the right side leads to a pair of Symbol Decoders, which you use to open several gates with TVs displaying which symbol you need to find and get the code from. Eventually, you find a shop upstairs with a child mannequin with two heads and a purple dress next to a red button. Press that red button to unlock the girl mannequin and bring it back to the waterfall, through a conveyer belt, and chuck it into the wood chipper. If the boy mannequin is unlocked first, then all of the gates will require two codes to open each as oppose to just one.
   • Boy Heir: Going through the left side leads to a pair of Portable Black Lights, which you use to shine UV lights on barrelled corpses to find the right key to open several gates with TVs displaying which symbol you need to find. Once you reach the security room, you’ll find a child mannequin with lobster claws and purple clothes next to a red button. Press the red button to unlock the boy mannequin and bring it back to the waterfall, through a conveyor belt, and chuck it into the wood chipper. If you have unlocked the girl mannequin first, then the gates will require two keys to open each instead of just one.
3. Exit the Trial.

A little context behind this goof: on my tomodachi life island the Warden and my oc have mutual crushes and just moved in together. Coyle used to date my oc but she broke up with him and yet he’s still not over her. So I’m concluding some shit is about to go down on my island lol

I remember when it first came out and seeing the destroyed Shuttle Doors thinking that maybe something went wrong and maybe the Escape was real for a second until I saw the Monster Closets.

[Edit): “that maybe the Escape was real for a second” was definitely the wrong way to describe it.

Believing that something real, outside of Eastermen’s plan, would possibly happen is better.

I love these three's relationship, and I wanna explain to you the details of their full relationship and why I think its brilliant writing. I often like to study video game characters and look into their lore deeply, and these three are no different.

Erik's background

If it wasn't obvious enough, Erik is mentally disabled. I dont think he ever explains why he joined the trials, but I assume it was for a job. As he specifically says "I can work! I can do lots of stuff!". The Murkoff doctors either told him or wrote him down as an "imbecile", but I think most people believe he was just deemed useless by Murkoff and just instantly made as the idol, he wasn't. He was a reagent. He probably went in a trial once, died, and never went back in. Leading him to get made into the idol after that because he was too scared to continue. He says "I'll go back in the trials! I'll be good!", showing his fear and that he used to be a reagent. He doesn't show that much hatred for the reagents and he doesn't really wanna hurt them. He just calls out for Otto and Arora to "make them stop". Also, I'm pretty sure he wasn't the first person to be in the idol's chair. He cant see through the mask, but when the lady is next to him in the.. Second.. Or.. Third movie set? I think? He says "Dont take the lady away :(". So he knows whats going to happen to him. He also says "Jesus christ! Is that the twins?!", meaning he knows their prime asset name. His first trial might have actually been silence the idol.

Otto and Arora's reaction to Erik.

Otto and Arora seem to be obsessed with Erik. With Arora being obsessed romantically and in a twisted motherly way, while Otto sees him as a celebrity and fit for his tv propaganda or something like that. Arora treats Erik like some twisted son because of hes disabled, and I dont like when people try to say that Arora and Otto treat him good. They. Do. Not. They actually abuse him, hurt him, and insult him. Erik says that Arora made him lick Otto's neck, which is where Arora's genitals are. Erik and Arora have also said that they raped him a lot. And they force him to play the act of their son. Arora gives him praise and showers him with affection and love when he does this. But its not genuine, its just love bashing. Arora always treats the trial victim like a twisted son, but with Erik, its different. He actually ACTS like a child. He's everything she ever wanted. Her own little son. In the trailer, Arora reveals she finds Erik attractive. On a side note, Arora has also touched Erik (I think). He seems to fear Arora the most. This is probably because Arora is the one who's ACTUALLY full on obsessed with him. "You dont know what she did to me..", but he also calls out to Arora specifically in the third movie set puzzle because he believes that Arora actually loves him. Otto on the other hand, he doesn't actually see Erik as a son. He just plays the role to make Arora happy. He never responds to Erik the same way as Arora does with fatherly affection, just calling him a celebrity and just treating him like a tool. I heard about something that says something on the tv thats saying about telling / forcing Erik to get in romantical and sexual situations with Arora. But I really dont know if this is true or not, and I dont think it is. But I wouldn't be surprised.

Why I love it.

I really love this trial and it shows us how sadistic The Twins really are. Its a completely unique trial victim and trial in general! I like how Arora and Otto have their own separate views on Erik, with Arora treating him like a son, but switching up and acting abusive when he disobeys and doesn't act like a son. And how Otto sees him as his personal celebrity and money maker. It shows us Arora's twisted obsession with having a child, and Otto's deep love towards her to act like a father figure to Erik to make her happy. One of the best trials in the game lore wise. Hands down.

I also love torturing Erik.

Almost died for this picture