

KAIPHAS PLAYS FAUSTS ALPTRAUM SERIES
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Candy: A magical chocolate candy that heals Faust and boosts her speed.Scissors: A pair of giant scissors used by a homunculus to try to kill her.Range: Standard melee range, Extended melee range with weaponry

Has outran enemies who could easily kill her multiple times without rest. Lifting Strength: Average Human ( Can shove a large library) Speed: At least Average Human (Can outrun rats with relative ease), Likely Athletic Human with candy If the former were to be true, then Faust is subconsciously shaping the mansion and the events of the game), Limited Resistance to Memory Manipulation (Managed to get her memories back after Mephistopheles had taken them away, although this took some time)Īttack Potency: Wall level ( Smashed a wall to bits with a hatchet) Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Healing and Statistics Amplification (Can heal herself and increase her running speed a bit with Candy), Damage Reduction (When she receives damage, her candle's light will be dimmed instead), possibly Subjective Reality (It's left ambiguous by the game whether the events of Fausts Alptraum are a nightmare or real.

Name: Likely Faust (She is referred to by this name by extra material unlocked after beating the game), believes her name to be Elizabeth for most of the game Faust is a young girl, protagonist of the 2015 indie game Fausts Alptraum, in which she finds herself trapped in a mansion haunted by a demon named Mephistopheles, where to escape she will have to understand what is dream and what is reality as she tries to recall her past and survive the mansion's perils.
