Reverse: 1999 Mondlicht Analysis
Mondlicht is one of my favorite characters in R1999 due to her fairytale motif. Her design is a reference to red riding hood, the hunter and the wolf. She's a young girl who wears a red hood and hunts against wolves. Ironically, she has a dog for a udimo. She comes from a small villages that is stuck in an endless war against wolves. With all the male hunters dead, the women of the village took on the mantle and joined the bloody battles against the enemy. The war raged on for over a century until only one huntress remained. She handed down her cloak and weapon to Mondlicht who would continue the battle in her stead. She is now the only hunter left.
Her cloak's red hue comes from generations of people staining it with blood during the war. Her silver bullet necklace shares the same name as her and was apparently made from ore that fell from the moon. Mondlicht's fighting style is unique since she uses an axe/shotgun hybrid. Definitely the coolest weapon in the game. Her personality is pretty simple. She's solely devoted to protecting her village from the big bad wolves. She's always on edge for even the remote possibility of a wolf attack. She stays up all night to protect everyone from any attack. There's hardly any trace of childhood innocence to be found in her. Mondlicht is like a child soldier forever devoted to fighting the war. There's a voiceline where she tells the listener not to trust the wolves and don't respond to them. This could imply that the wolves are capable of speaking or have human level intelligence. Mondlicht specifically using a silver bullet brings to mind werewolves, suggesting that the wolves aren't normal animals.
Her arcane skill is ambiguous, but it could be a heighted sense of smell. Her insight 2 variant gives her glowing eyes which could also indicate enchanced vision. I've been told that Mondlicht teleports during Alien T's Anecdote so perhaps that's what her true ability is.
A cute little detail about her is that she's very happy to have Vertin stories to her. It's so sweet and it's one of the few times she acts her age.













