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Girl (Cat in the Box)

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"WARNING"
This profile is based off the character Girl from the game Cat in the Box, it contains depictions of body horror, gore, and death. Cadavers are strewn across the mansion grounds, reader discretion is advised.


Girl is the main character of the game Cat in the Box. She is an up-and-coming paranormal YouTuber that spends the entire game in a now-vacant mansion that was once owned by a cult who vanished one day in an attempt to boost her YouTube channel, but ends up trying to find a way out once things get supernatural. She has no official name.

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Girl

“ An ordinary girl who likes to explore haunted houses. „
Origin
Origin Cat in the Box[1]
Creator Gustav
First Appearance Cat in the Box
Voiced by N/A
Characteristics
Species Human
Gender Female
Pronouns She/Her/Hers
Sexuality Unknown
Age 21
Birthday Unknown
Height Unknown
Weight Unknown
Ethnicity Unknown
Status Alive in most endings, deceased in some
Alignment True Neutral, Neutral Evil as ?
Archetype Urban Explorer
Occupation YouTuber
Time Period 2010s or 2020s
Language Possibly Korean
Combat Style Street Fighter
Homeworld Earth
Relationships
Affiliations ? (Formerly), Unnamed Sister, Everet (Friend)
Enemies ? (Older Girl)

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Girl’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Girl is the name of the central protagonist of the game Cat in the Box. Presumably set in either the 2010s or 2020s, Girl sets off to a mansion far into the mountains to record an exploration video of the abandoned mansion for her YouTube channel. Motivated by the low viewership on her last video, she breaks into the mansion grounds using a bolt cutter as she believes that recording inside the mansion will cause her to go viral and gain traction to becoming a successful urban explorer YouTuber, making a remark to herself that she spent a lot of money to get to the mansion. Once she enters the mansion, she gives some exposition about the lore of the place and the end-of-times cult the owned it, explaining that they suddenly disappeared.

She continues too look around the mansion, quickly figuring out that something is terribly wrong, considering the bones, blood, hospital equipment, and spoiled food found around the first couple of rooms of the mansion. Regardless of the dangers, she continues on with her journey by going into the basement. There she discovers cryptic and concerning papers and pages of the cult's religion, believing in their God called "The Almighty" and their angel "Alto". When reading from the priest's stand, she suddenly gets chased by what she can only determine as a killer with a knife who wears a rag and hides in a dark room upstairs.

Realizing she lost her phone during the chase, she ultimately decides to leave the mansion grounds as it is not safe and to think about her next course of action. As she opens the door that leads to the exit, she realizes the harrowing truth to her situation; she is stuck in the mansion. No matter how many times she goes through the door, it leads back to a room of the mansion. Feeling distressed, she begins to panic about her situation before a voice behind the door talks to her.

The person behind the door claims they are another person trapped in the mansion just like her, and that she is trying to find a way out of the mansion. Curiously, she asks for a chocolate bar that Girl has on her, despite never having seen her directly. Not directly answering Girl's questions, they decide it would be best if they explored the mansion separately, much to the dismay of Girl. Left with no other choice, she agrees to the plan and is left alone to wander around the mansion, still recording, in hopes of finding a way out of the mansion.

After finding a screwdriver, she decides to descend into the basement once more, to find a panel with switches to open up a locked door. This alerts the same killer that chased Girl before, and before leaving the basement Girl encounters them and has to hide in the closet to survive. She goes back to the previously locked door and breaks down, wanting nothing to do with the mansion, but continues on. She eventually reaches another entrance to the dark storage room she first hid in, only to discover a pile of corpses tucked in the dark corner of the room, trying not to think too much about it, she leaves the room immediately to find an old axe.

With the old axe, she breaks a piece of furniture that impeded her way upstairs to the mansion, where she enters the cult leader's bedroom and is met again with the stranger behind the door. Strangely, they ask her for chocolate again, seemingly an automatic response to being called out. When told about this, they quickly move onto their findings about the cult having a ritual room somewhere in the mansion. They relay a theory that performing a specific ritual in said room would expel the curse of the mansion, letting them escape. Girl is upset about the stranger not taking care of the stranger but ultimately wants to help, wanting to stick together this time. The stranger refuses claiming that they would not like their face. They leave to explore the mansion once more, and Girl grabs a flashlight found in the room, she then goes through a crawlspace, experiencing a hallucination where she is being chased by cursed people.

After the hallucination, she explores a previously unexplored pitch-black room with the flashlight, and opens up a secret compartment to go into the prison side of the mansion which contains a non-functioning elevator. There she encounters another person tied-up, badly maimed, and incoherent. She decides it is not worth interacting with them and goes to get the power of the elevator running again. After doing so, she fiddles around with the jail cell system to get back to the elevator room, finding that it is too heavy and has a cadaver fall on her, triggering another hallucination, but with a giant eldritch monster this time around before getting overrun by smaller blob eldritch monsters.

Shaken up after the event, she kicks the cadaver outside the elevator and descends into the ritual room, where she comes across a blob eldritch monster (similar to that of her hallucination) and hides. She returns to the elevator to go back to the prison again due to the monster being too dangerous, and is once again met by the stranger from the other side of the door. The stranger reveals the three items are required for the ritual: candles, thread, and a "Red Spider Lily" flower. Girl makes a remark about the person tied up, which the stranger brushes off as having not seen them. Before leaving to find the items, Girl asks the stranger to take care of the blob monster, which to they agree.

Going to the previous rooms of the mansion, multiple statues of the angel Alto are shown blocking paths to certain parts of the mansion, watching Girl's every move. Girl then goes to the basement to retrieve a thread, while being taunted and almost getting killed by the Alto statues. She gets the candle upstairs, but not before seeing the remains of the killer that was chasing her in a box. Finally, she gets the red flower in the attic where various herbs are being grown. Returning to the ritual room, she notices the entire floor has lost power and gets ambushed by the same blob monster, having to hide once again, falling into another hallucination of being chased again.

Girl wakes up, seeing the monster gone, and notices a note from the stranger apologizing for being late, assuring Girl that they took care of the monster, and took the ritual items to prepare for the ritual. Girl explores a bit more before her flashlight's battery dying and enters the cult leader's room, retrieving the camera and learning that he was afraid of the fanatics of the cult, being unable to stop their constant rituals. She pays no mind to this and explores the dark rooms with the camera and finally finds the stranger in a dimly lit, and foul-smelling room, with the dead monster and three cadavers. The stranger is glad to finally see Girl, and claims they were going to fix the generator but got too hurt by killing the monster, claiming their finger also hurt. They ask her to get the chalice once she fixes the generator and leaves. Girl proceeds to fix the generator, getting the chalice that was requested from a room, and enters the ritual room with the stranger waiting for her.

Once in the ritual room, Girl gets startled by the stranger who is hiding in the dark corner of the room. They exchange a couple of words before the stranger asks Girl to start the ritual by putting the chalice in the middle of the ritual room. Girl complies hesitantly. She then puts the spider lily flower in the chalice, and is asked to cut her finger off with a curious bolt cutter. Girl is frighten by this, but the stranger seems more annoyed and tries to hurry her along, claiming that the house is being possessed by the god that the cult worshipped, and twisting the ritual is the only way to break the curse. Being increasingly hesitant, she begins to question the stranger, who eventually realizes her plan is not working, reveals their identity as none other than Girl herself. She is missing an eye and looks jaded. Girl is shocked and confused and has more questions, but the older Girl ignores her and asks her if she is going to cut her finger or not, stating that they do not have a lot of time left. Girl does not want to do the ritual, so the older Girl has no choice but to fight her and force her to go with the ritual. Girl is able to fight her off, causing the older Girl to panic and beg for mercy before being brutally killed by a parasite that resided in her missing eye.

Believing she had killed her other version, she quickly goes to the chalice and comes to the grim realization that she is going to have to cut her own finger and chant to be free from the mansion. Once doing that, the house changes, the older Girl's corpse is gone and so are the ritual items. Girl leaves the mansion as fast as she can, missing a finger and deeply shaken from the events of the night. She rides her scooter to the hospital, where her sister comes to check on her and ask her what happened back at the mansion. Girl remains silent and aloof, not responding to her. After some compassionate words for her sister the sister leaves. Girl is incoherent as she looks from her hospital bed out the window, where in the rain, a flash of lighting reveals something eldritch in black shadow, alluding that Girl might have let the cult's god out to the world.

Appearance


  • General Description: Girl[2] is a young adult woman of average size with a heart-shaped face, pale skin tone, lilac-colored eyes, and long beige blonde hair. She wears a light gray hoodie with a black t-shirt underneath it, blue jeans, and black-and-white sneakers. She is 21-years-old and usually carries around a black camcorder.


  • General Description: Girl appears more exhausted with her hair being more messy, scratches all over her face, deep eye bags, a dirty sweater with her black t-shirt being slightly tattered.


  • General Description: Older Girl's appearance is close to that of Girl at the end of the game, but has noticeably longer and messier hair, a bandaged-up missing eye, and has a rag with an eye-hole as a disguise. She carries a knife in order to attack anything in her way.

Personality


  • Unchecked Ambition: Girl drove to the mansion the game takes place in hopes of boosting her low viewership of her YouTube channel, preparing her venture well in advance, and not willing to leave without getting good footage.
  • Curiosity Killed the Cat: Despite the many warning signs for her to leave which include: faulty phone service, suddenly abandoned mansion by a cult that disappeared, and signs of death, Girl still decides to investigate the mansion for footage before getting stuck in there.
  • Rightfully Scared: Knowing her dire situation, she begins to panic and believes she will never leave the mansion due to its weird properties.
  • Obedient for the Time Being: Meeting an ally, she has no choice but to agree to their plan, even if she personally feels afraid to go through with it.
  • Cat got her Tongue: After being told about the time loop and performing the traumatizing ritual, escaping in the Divine ending, Girl is permanently changed for the worse due to the revelations and remains silent and aloof, not telling her sister about anything that happened in the mansion.


  • Vague and Faceless: When encountering her most recent counterpart in the mansion, she decides to ally herself, being distant by not showing herself to Girl and dancing around any questions Girl might have.
  • You Owe Me: She agrees to deal with any dangers that Girl has encountered, but not from the kindness of her heart, but to create trust between Girl and her for a very important favor.
  • See You Never: In the Deceive ending, she completely tricks Girl into performing the ritual in order for her to escape the mansion, leaving Girl behind. Whether she escaped is not clear.
  • Time Changes You: After being questioned by Girl, she takes off her rags to reveal that she is an older Girl that has been stuck in the mansion for an unknown period of time, causing her to become desperate in her attempts to escape, killing and taking advantage of her other Girl counterparts.
  • Whimpering End: After being fought off by Girl, she begs for mercy as she is abruptly killed by a parasite crawling out of her eye.

Goals

  • Record a Video for her YouTube Channel (Inconclusive).
  • Escape the Mansion (Varies upon the ending).

Relationships


Unnamed Sister

  • Helpful Older Sister

Girl's older sister helps her obtain her second-hand scooter, which Girl uses to get to the cult's mansion.

  • Caring

After escaping from the mansion, Girl's sister makes sure to immediately see her and check on her, she also reassures her that she loves her.

Everet

  • Close Friend

Picks up the phone when called late at night, sounds annoyed, but still cares about Girl's safety.


?

  • Suspicious and Hungry

Girl encounters ? for the first time when she realizes she is stuck in the mansion. They claim they are glad to have met Girl, explaining to her that they are trapped as well and hopes to find an exit. They calm her down by telling her that they are close to figuring out how the mansion operates and soon will find a way out for the both of them, while also reassuring her that they will take care of the monster chasing them. Curiously, ? knows that Girl carries chocolate bars with her and asks her if she can spare one. Additionally, they deny any attempts of working together and wishes to keep to themselves. Over time, they will encounter Girl again being evasive with their answers as to why they cannot work together, and eventually finds out that a ritual will get them out of the mansion.


Older Girl

Much to the shock of Girl, her ally throughout the night was none other than herself, but looking more tired and missing an eye. Older Girl found herself in the exact same situation as Girl did and has been stuck in there for an unimaginable amount of time. She is colder and crueler due to being desperate to leave the mansion.

  • In the Deceive ending where she does not reveal herself, she deceives Girl into performing the ritual for her and then leaving her stuck.
  • In the Bad Ending where she does reveal herself and wins against Girl's struggles, she punishes Girl by stabbing one of her eyes out first and then takes her finger for the sacrifice, she is then left in a dark room, presumably in the same fashion Older Girl got stuck in the mansion.
  • In the Bad Ending where she reveals herself and is fought off by Girl, she transforms into a blob monster similar to the one Girl encountered a while before the ritual, killing her.
  • In the Epitaph , she remains dead as Girl performs the ritual by cutting Older Girl's finger off and offering it.
  • In the Divine endings, she remains dead up until the ritual which completely erases her from existence.

General Information

Name: Girl

Nicknames/Other Names: ?

Origin: Cat in the Box

First Appearance: Cat in the Box

Gender: Female

Assigned Gender: Female

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Handedness: Right Handedness

Age: 21[3]

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 2010s or 2020s

Timeline: Cat in the Box Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Unknown

Story Role: Main Protagonist as playable character, Main Antagonist as the monsters and ?

Legacy: Local Legacy (Her sister knows she got injured and traumatized after escaping the mansion, ending reveals that Girl might have unleashed an eldritch god, but is not known by anyone but herself)

Influence: Event Influence (Escaping the mansion required her to perform a ritual, she notices a giant shadow of an eldritch god from her hospital bed, possibly knowing she might have unleashed something to the world)

Language: Possibly Korean (The game was made by a South Korean developer, but it is not implied what language she would speak)

Ethnicity: Unknown

Religion: Unknown

Classification: Human

Species: Homo Sapiens

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: YouTuber

Combat Style: Street Fighter

Affiliations: Unnamed Sister, Everet, ? (Formerly)

Enemies: ? (Older Girl)

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive (Girl is alive[4] in most endings), Deceased in an ending where Girl leaves while not completing the ritual and in the Epitaph ending where she breaks the ritual's instructions and falls down a cliff in a panic (Considering the nature of the story, most if not every death scene could count as an ending as well as encountering yourself)

Date of Death: Unknown (In the instances Girl died)

Alignment: True Neutral (Girl breaks into an abandoned cult mansion to make content for her YouTube channel but once she is stuck, she tries to escape the mansion by becoming allies with ? and in one instance, trying to help someone tied up, getting herself killed), Neutral Evil as ? (Since she has been stuck in the mansion for an indeterminate amount of time and running out time due to a parasite slowly growing out of her missing eye. She has become desperate in her attempts to escape, resorting to killing and manipulation to finally leave the mansion, showing that she does not enjoy torturing Girl in the Bad Ending where she defeats Girl and only did it out of self-preservation)

Threat Level: Street Threat (Girl as ? has been able to kill and fight off different versions of herself for some time, getting injured in the process. She can still overpower Girl and torture her, but Girl can also overpower ? with some struggle

Potential

  • Type(s) of Potential: Capped Potential
  • Level of Potential: Fixed Potential
  • Description: Girl is a normal human who still struggles with heavy objects and fighting off monsters that can attack her (though as ?, she still struggles[5] but has managed to kill other living beings)
  • Limitations: There is not much room for growth.

Archetype: Cursed Wanderer as Girl, also Corrupted Cynic as ?

Codex Statistics

Grade: C (Applies to both Girl and ?)

Tier: 10-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: None

Attack Potency: Average Human level (Girl struggles to fight off her older version)

Durability: Average Human level

Striking Strength: Average Human Class

Lifting Strength: Average Human Class

Travel Speed: Regular Human Speed

Attack Speed: Regular Human Speed

Reaction Speed: Regular Human Speed

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: Unknown level

Powers and Techniques

Equipment


Notable Techniques

Nothing notable.

Other

Standard Tactics: Girl hides away from her pursuers either by hiding behind something or inside a closet (as long as she is not seen).

Weaknesses: She has no means to defend herself and has short stamina, so she is vulnerable up to the end.

Trivia

  • Cat in the Box is loosely connected to Gustav's older game Stygian[6] due to some characters from that game appearing in Cat in the Box, specifically Girl's sister, as she appears there as an important side-character.
  • The voice recorder's brand is Gustav's name in reverse.
  • Inside the game's files exists an unfinished and unused minigame[7] that contains the main character of Stygian.

Gallery

  • Girl checking for something behind furniture

    Girl checking for something behind furniture

  • Girl discovers cadavers

    Girl discovers cadavers

  • Girl is tired of her adventure in the mansion

    Girl is tired of her adventure in the mansion

  • The parasite coming out of ?'s (Older Girl) eye

    The parasite coming out of ?'s (Older Girl) eye

  • Confident portrait of Girl

    Confident portrait of Girl

  • ? (Older Girl) disguise portrait

    ? (Older Girl) disguise portrait

  • ? (Older Girl) portrait

    ? (Older Girl) portrait

  • Girl's portrait after getting cursed

    Girl's portrait after getting cursed

  • Girl's transformation after getting cursed

    Girl's transformation after getting cursed

Battle Records

1 - 1 - 0


  • ? (Older Girl) - Mentioned
    • Conditions: Girl successfully fights back against ?
    • Location: Ritual room


  • ? (Older Girl) - Mentioned
    • Conditions: Girl unsuccessfully fights back against ?
    • Location: Ritual room


None.

References

  1. ↑ Cat in the Box by Gustav
  2. ↑ scissormon
  3. ↑ ManlyBadassHero
  4. ↑ CrankyTemplar
  5. ↑ GamingSugoi
  6. ↑ Stygian by Gustav
  7. ↑ ForgoneMoose

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