More research, including ideas for the Antagonists and the folie à deux.

The main Antagonist for this game will be the Character of Oswald Montgomery, the flagging Mayor of Aspington with big aspirations for world domination. His motives for stealing the discovered formula stems from his obsession with the occult and his obsession with bringing back people from the dead, because he wants more power he feels the only way to take over the 12 Cities is to use an army of slaves who can't question his motives like a real world army would. Because he's not part of my playable prototype I will just put this image here, this is what I imagine him to look like only with a big creepy mustache! I created some iteration based on this image to see what he could look like

I really like the bald version, I will combine this with the monocle and to me it looks like the most untrustworthy out of the lot, creepy man!

I wanted a villain character to pair with this man, but a villain character you would sort of sympathise with, then I found out through my friend Maxine about a thing called the 'Folie à deux' and I loved the idea of it. To understand this I wiki'd  folie à deux and I'm sort of fascinated by this concept.

"Folie à deux (/fɒˈli ə ˈduː/; French pronunciation: ​[fɔli a dø]; French for "a madness shared by two"), or shared psychosis, is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another.^[1] The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name. The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th-century French psychiatry by Charles Lasègue and Jean-Pierre Falret and so also known as Lasègue-Falret Syndrome

This syndrome is most commonly diagnosed when the two or more individuals concerned live in proximity and may be socially or physically isolated and have little interaction with other people.
Various sub-classifications of folie à deux have been proposed to describe how the delusional belief comes to be held by more than one person.

• Folie imposée is where a dominant person (known as the 'primary', 'inducer' or 'principal') initially forms a delusional belief during a psychotic episode and imposes it on another person or persons (known as the 'secondary', 'acceptor' or 'associate') with the assumption that the secondary person might not have become deluded if left to his or her own devices. If the parties are admitted to hospital separately, then the delusions in the person with the induced beliefs usually resolve without the need of medication.
• Folie simultanée describes either the situation where two people considered to suffer independently from psychosis influence the content of each other's delusions so they become identical or strikingly similar, or one in which two people "morbidly predisposed" to delusional psychosis mutually trigger symptoms in each other.^[4]

Folie à deux and its more populous cousins are in many ways a psychiatric curiosity. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that a person cannot be diagnosed as being delusional if the belief in question is one "ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture" (see entry for delusion). It is not clear at what point a belief considered to be delusional escapes from the folie à... diagnostic category and becomes legitimate because of the number of people holding it. When a large number of people may come to believe obviously false and potentially distressing things based purely on hearsay, these beliefs are not considered to be clinical delusions by the psychiatric profession and are labelled instead as mass hysteria.

Related phenomena

Reports have stated that a similar phenomenon to folie à deux had been induced by the military incapacitating agent BZ in the late 60s, and most recently again by anthropologists in the South American rainforest consuming the hallucinogen ayahuasca. (Ralph Metzner, 1999).

Individual cases

In the case of twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, Ursula ran into the path of an oncoming articulated lorry, sustaining severe injuries. Sabina then immediately duplicated her twin's actions by stepping into the path of an oncoming car; she survived the impact. It was later claimed that Sabina Eriksson was a 'secondary' sufferer of folie à deux, influenced by the presence or perceived presence of her twin sister, Ursula – the 'primary'. Sabina later told an officer at the police station, "We say in Sweden that an accident rarely comes alone. Usually at least one more follows – maybe two.^" However, upon her release from hospital, Sabina behaved erratically before stabbing a man to death. Another case involved Margaret and her husband Michael, both aged 34 years, who were discovered to be suffering from folie à deux when they were both found to be sharing similar persecutory delusions. They believed that certain persons were entering their house, spreading dust and fluff and "wearing down their shoes". Both had, in addition, other symptoms supporting a diagnosis of emotional contagion, which could be made independently in either case"

For the secondary antagonist in this game I would be using this idea of Folie-a-deux with Babyface and Dollybird, (a doll with the face of a bird and a birds body with the head of a doll) as they share the same body parts and therefore can share thoughts, feelings and such.

The way these two came about is that Florence originally only created Babyface and threw the remnants away, Oswald then scavenged the birds head and the dolls body and created Dollybird, Dollybird became angry at Florence and that anger corrupted Babyface. Together these two are the secondary evil forces that plague Florence. Oswald uses these two to steal from, attack and pursue Florence when she travels to other places.