In Chapter I, when John approaches the Second Death ritual site in the basement, a trail of symbols will manifest from offscreen and begin making its way to John's position. This trail must touch John to begin Amy's pre-boss fight stage.
First Encounter[]
In every available room of the house except Amy's bedroom, a trail of symbols will appear somewhere on screen and start making its way to John's position. John must hold up his cross in the direction of the trail before it touches him.
When this is done, four apparitions of Amy will surround John. Only one of the apparitions is the "real" Amy, which John must find and point his cross at to ward her off. If he doesn't do this fast enough, the correct apparition will charge at John and kill him.
It is possible to immediately tell which apparition is the correct one by paying attention to their flashing animations when they appear; the correct one will flash slightly differently from the rest.
After doing this six times, Amy will fly to the attic door on the second floor and open it. Entering the attic, Amy will be found idling in the middle of the arena.
Boss Fight[]
The amount of health and speed that Amy has during her boss fight decreases if John has collected specific notes beforehand. These notes include: #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #11, #12, #13, #15, and #16, all being obtained by exorcising various objects in the area.
Health
Notes #
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11+
Stage 1
400
382
364
346
328
310
292
274
256
238
220
202
Stage 2
300
305
310
315
320
325
330
335
340
345
350
355
Stage 3
300
290
280
270
260
250
240
230
220
210
200
190
Total
1000
977
954
931
908
885
862
839
816
793
770
747
Note: John's cross deals 15 damage per second.
Speed
Notes #
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11+
Stage 3
35
34
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
Stage 1[]
The first stage of the boss battle will start once John points his cross at Amy, who will remain stationary in the middle of the room. All John must do is hold up his cross at Amy for a certain amount of time. But beware, Gray Demons will start to spawn from the corners of the room and begin slowly approaching John. These demons cannot be exorcised away, and John must dodge them all the while exorcising Amy.
Stage 2[]
In this stage, Amy will disappear, and a trail of symbols will appear and begin following John. John can either point his cross at the trail or touch it, which will cause four apparitions of Amy to surround him. John must hold up his cross at the correct apparition to deal damage to Amy.
After a few seconds, the four apparitions will disappear, and Amy will charge at John from the opposite direction of the correct apparition, which John must dodge. If dodged successfully, Amy will remain still for a couple seconds, giving John ample opportunity to damage her with the cross.
It is similarly possible to observe the flashing animation to find the real Amy among the apparitions.
This cycle will continue until John has dealt enough damage to Amy, initiating the final phase of the fight.
Stage 3[]
A large pentagram will manifest on the floor of the arena. Starting from the top-left point and going down, Amy will follow the path of the pentagram and stop on the third point she crosses over. When stopping, a trail of symbols will circle around her, which John must avoid being touched by, otherwise Amy will charge at him and kill him. John will only be able to deal damage to Amy when she is stopped at one of the points.
When Amy stops at the top-left point, her next movement pattern will be faster, and she will do a full circle around the pentagram instead of stopping after only three points. Upon reaching the top-left point again, she will fire off a Gray Demon in John's direction instead of creating the symbol circle.
The full attack pattern is as follows:
Start from Top-left -> Bottom -> Top-right -> Stop at Left, Circle of symbols.
Start from Left -> Right -> Top-left -> Stop at Bottom, Circle of symbols.
Start from Bottom -> Top-right -> Left -> Stop at Right, Circle of symbols.
Start from Right -> Top-left -> Bottom -> Stop at Top-right, Circle of symbols.
Start from Top-right -> Left -> Right -> Stop at Top-left, Circle of symbols.
Start from Top-left -> Bottom -> Top-right -> Left -> Right -> Stop at Top-left, Summon Gray Demon.
Repeat until defeated.
Appearance[]
Amy is a teenage girl with long hair who is rendered with a purple color in the game's art style. She is depicted as wearing a long dress with short sleeves.
After her Second Death ritual, her face had been carved out, leaving a bloody, gaping hole in its place. This hole acts as a portal to Hell, where demons and other objects are capable of entering to-and-fro. During her Chapter I boss fight, the arm of a demon is seen emerging from and retreating back into it.
Personality[]
Before her possession, Amy was a hard worker who was very dedicated to her job at the clinic. She also had a strong desire to become independent and free to make her own choices, a desire which likely stems from being homeschooled by her parents. Due to the secluded location of her home, she had not been able to interact with others very often, and tends to be a loner. She preferred to become friends with anybody she came across, a vulnerability that would later lead her to her doom. Like most teenagers, she was somewhat rebellious against her parents, but her reasons seemed to be justified at the time since she had to deal with a delusional mother and a temporarily absent father.
Despite everything that she went through, she was a forgiving person and would not hold grudges towards John, despite his failure to exorcise her.
Biography[]
1970[]
Being seventeen years old in 1987, Amy can be assumed to have been born to Cindy and Bob Martin in Sterling, Connecticut sometime in 1970. She would receive her education via homeschooling in the following years.
May 3rd, 1980[]
Cindy had become pregnant again, expecting to deliver twin boys, Nate and Jason, on this date. Unfortunately, she miscarried them. Distraught over the sudden loss, she begins to become delusional and perceives them as still being alive; decorating a bedroom for them, creating children's drawings signed with their names, and throwing fake birthday parties for them. Bob would assign Cindy a psychiatrist, Dr. Morris, but even despite these therapeutic sessions, she would still occasionally relapse.
While not outwardly stated, Cindy's delusions had likely taken a mental toll on Amy.
Early 1986[]
Bob would leave home to do missionary work in Nicaragua (despite apparently not being particularly religious himself), being set to return sometime in September. With Bob gone, only Amy and her mother would be living in the house.
One day, Amy would hear about an opening for an internship at a clinic somewhere in the city. In the hopes of being able to socialize more with other people, she takes up the opportunity and is accepted for the position. There, she would meet the operator of the clinic, Gary Miller, who begins to take a liking to her, treating her well to the point where she eventually sees the two of them as friends.
Unbeknownst to Amy, Gary is actually the leader of a Satanic cult named the Eternal Order of the Second Death, whose mission it is to prepare the world for the arrival of the Antichrist. To help with this, he must perform a Second Death ritual on a worthy vessel. Given Amy's conditions; able-bodied, young, and emotionally weak or vulnerable[1], Gary realizes that she may in fact be one such worthy vessel for the ritual, and so he begins devising a plan to prepare her for it.
Overtime, Amy would become more and more engrossed in working at the clinic, happy to finally be spending some time away from home. She wouldn't even seem to care too much about her favorite tree dying, with Cindy being more upset about it than her.
For Amy's sixteenth birthday, Bob would mail her a doll he found while doing work in Nicaragua as a gift. Amy, however, doesn't seem very excited about it, with Cindy remarking that she would have likely wished for a personal landline phone instead, or that the doll makes her feel self-conscious about her clinic job.
May 4th, 1986[]
Amy and the twins are to start their next school year at home. Amy expresses dissatisfaction, asking when she'll be allowed to attend a real school, which Cindy would attribute to cabin fever.
May - June 1986[]
At some point, Amy decides to write a letter to Layton, one of Bob's friends who's on the same missionary job as him. While it's not made clear why she wrote this letter, it is likely that she was worried about her father and wanted to know what was going on in Nicaragua. Amy would eventually receive Layton's response, stating that he was happy to hear from her. After he recaps about the weirdest thing he's seen on the job, he ends the letter stating that he'll see her in four months.
Early September, 1986[]
As Amy became more absorbed with her work at the clinic, Cindy had started to get judgmental looks from members of her Book Club after finding out Amy works there. Cindy would seemingly cave in to the shame cast on her and forbid Amy from ever going back to work at the clinic. Despite retaliating against the idea, Amy would oblige.
Amy's absence from the clinic would jeopardize Gary's plans to use her as a vessel for the Second Death. Gary would write a letter to Amy to emotionally entice her back to the clinic with the promise of a work party that Saturday night, goading her by stating she's an adult and is capable of making her own decisions (despite being sixteen), and that she shouldn't let her parents dictate her dreams. Amy receives the letter and plans to sneak out on the night of the 6th.
September 6th, 1986[]
Amy sneaks out of her house in the middle of the night and gets a ride to the clinic from a friend. Once inside, the cult restrains her and intentionally has her possessed by a demon to aid in the process of the Second Death. The cult then drops her off back at her house, where Cindy finds her in a drugged state.
Between September 7th - 20th, 1986[]
Cindy begins to notice that Amy hasn't seemed like herself recently, gradually becoming more standoffish and sometimes aggressive. Her condition would worsen to the point that Cindy could hardly stand to be near her anymore. Cindy wishes she could take her to a doctor, but she doesn't want to leave the twins at home.
Bob would finally return home from Nicaragua, being greeted by a standoffish Amy and a mentally unstable Cindy. Believing something paranormal to have happened, Bob and Cindy contact the Catholic Church. Father Allred is assigned to Amy's case since he's well experienced with exorcisms. After concluding that Amy's possession is stronger than what he's used to, he contacts the Catholic Church for an assistant. A young John Ward, who has never partaken in an exorcism before, is assigned to be Allred's assistant for the exorcism to be performed on the 21st.
Knowing how distressing it can be for family members to be present during an exorcism, Allred had requested to perform the session away from the house, preferably in a church or at least the shed nearby, with Bob and Cindy not present. Unfortunately, they would be adamant on having it done inside the house so that they can periodically check on Amy.
September 21st, 1986[]
On this fateful day, Allred and John would arrive at the Martin House to begin the exorcism. The two park outside and are greeted at the front door by Bob and Cindy.
John nervously darts his eyes and Cindy remains quiet; Bob's a nervous wreck and shamefully tells the two that he had to tie Amy up in the basement. Walking downstairs, Amy stares coldly at the priests as Allred tries to ask how she's doing. With no response, Allred demands the demon's name in Latin, and her demon remarks, "HELLO, PRIEST." The exorcism begins.
John stares blankly as he watches Father Allred attempt to exorcise Amy with his cross. Amy can only kick her feet and laugh (or scream) as the session goes. Allred demands John to stop standing around and recite the prayer of exorcism from the book. Before John can finish the prayer, Bob and Cindy walk in to observe the commotion, inadvertently preventing the priests from completing the exorcism. Sensing Cindy's horrified silence, Amy's demon tries to call out to her by chanting, "MOTHER! MOTHER!" Allred requests John to take the parents back upstairs so the demon cannot use Amy to afflict them.
John relocates the two back upstairs to the kitchen. Bob tries to get assurance from John that Amy will be alright, but he can only respond with, "...I don't know what to tell you." He instructs the two to wait upstairs while he goes back down to assist Father Allred.
When John reenters the basement, he finds Allred unconscious on the floor with his arms spread out. Amy is nowhere in sight. Before Allred collapsed, he managed to write "Take it" and "Save her" on the floor with his own blood. John takes up Allred's cross and attempts to finish the exorcism by himself.
John begins searching the house for Amy. Heading upstairs to the kitchen, he notices that Bob and Cindy are no longer there. He calls out to them and Amy throughout the house, but gets no response. Eventually, he locates Amy standing alone in the attic. The room is cold. He urges her to come back downstairs to finish the exorcism. She responds in perfect Latin, saying she cannot go. The demon then teases John by mentioning that his deceased mother is currently in the room with them. John ignores the goading and is set to perform the exorcism right there in the attic. The demon is entertained by John's bravery, mocking him for trying to pull this off alone. John calls out for Father Allred and Mr. Martin one more time, but nobody comes. John takes out the cross and tries to begin the rite again.
During the exorcism, Amy supposedly begins frantically crawling around the room on all fours. Somewhere in the encounter, Amy overpowers John and renders him unconscious for a short time, allowing her to escape the attic. John later gets up to flee the attic and starts stacking mannequins at the entrance, swearing not to go back in there. In spite of what transpired during this attempt, John still wishes to resume the exorcism. He goes back to searching the house for Amy. In Amy's bedroom, John is horrified to find Cindy's corpse, having apparently been gutted and strangled to death with her own intestines while John was out. He then finds Bob's corpse in the master bedroom, having suffered the same fate.
John is deeply frightened and now only wants to escape the house with his life. However, he remembers that Father Allred was merely knocked unconscious. Not wanting to leave him behind, he rushes back to the basement to retrieve him. He hears Allred's voice calling out to him, telling him to please come quickly. John follows his voice and notices that Allred's body has been tampered. He speaks to John, telling him "It's going to be alright." Suddenly, Amy appears with Allred's head on her lap and her hands on his face; she is puppeteering Allred's face to make him appear to talk. Blood begins to pour from Allred's empty eye sockets as she does this. Suddenly, Amy begins crawling on all fours again, rushing towards John to finish him off. Just before the ambush, the lights suddenly cut out, leaving John in total darkness.
John has reached his breaking point, fearing that he will never leave the house alive; Amy's terrorization has become too much for him to bear. He prays for God - for anybody - to come rescue him. An angel of light suddenly manifests before him. The entity hears John out and asks him to state a wish. John breaks down in front of it, pleading with it to allow him to safely return home. The entity gives John a warning that if he is led to safety, Amy's fate will be sealed - she will never be saved. In John's state of extreme fear, he ignores this warning, promising to give in to the entity's demands. The entity demands him to swear an oath on it. John obliges.
John staggers his way out the front door and into the arms of the police and paramedics outside, who had somehow been contacted to the Martin House. The police search the house and locate Amy Martin with the bodies of her parents and Allred. Her and John are placed under arrest.
September 22nd, 1986[]
The police initially believe John to be the one responsible for the murders in the house, seeing it unlikely that a teenage girl would have been able to overpower three adults. Nevertheless, the two are both admitted to Yale Psychiatric Institute on account of being too mentally unstable to stand trial. Dr. Spinel is assigned to care for John and get a more solid narrative from him about the events that took place on that day, which he will forward to the police and Martin Family Attorneys to solve the murder case.
In John's patient intake form, the shrink notes that John is initially unable to maintain a consistent story, writing that he stated Amy was in the basement, then saying she was in the attic.
Between September 23rd - October 22nd, 1986[]
Over the next month, Dr. Spinel treats John's condition in the hopes of getting him to accept that what happened at the house was not a result of demonic possession. He notes that John somehow knows Amy is in the facility with him, and requests to have her moved to a different one. It is not known if this request ever came to fruition.
With the murder case still pending, Bob and Cindy's deaths are ruled as an accident. A public, closed-casket memorial is held for them on the 24th.
A consensus would later be reached that Amy was truly the one who had murdered her parents and Father Allred. John's name would be cleared of the charges, while Amy would be sentenced to remain in the psych ward indefinitely. This sentencing would essentially screw over Gary's plans to use her in the Second Death; he still believes her to be a perfect vessel, but would not be able to break her out. At this point, Gary's only options are to wait for her to be released or escape somehow, or begin searching for another vessel.
October 23rd, 1986[]
A letter is written to the head of the institution, Dr. McGlashan, signed with John's name. It states that thanks to Dr. Spinel's help, John has finally come to accept the truth. It states that he accepts that the events that took place at the Martin household were not the result of demonic possession, but rather of Amy being driven insane by her controlling parents, and from old church rituals that were believed to dispel evil. The letter ends requesting his release from the institute, contingent on follow-up appointments with Dr. Spinel.
This letter was, in fact, not written by John, but rather Gary. In his search for a new vessel, he realized that the very priest who performed Amy's exorcism had the potential to be a good fit for the Second Death ritual. He had written this letter and sent it to the institution in the hopes that this would get John back out into the open.
October 31st, 1986[]
Dr. Spinel officially releases John from his care. He states that he is pleased to see John's improvement after finishing his required counseling and treatment, and believes that John is ready to be brought back into society.
September 13th, 1987[]
Almost one year after being taken into the psych ward, Amy escapes and begins making her way back to the now abandoned Martin House. Her escape from the asylum is eventually broadcast in the local news, prompting members of the cult to begin prowling around the Martin residence, preparing to finish their ritual.
Between September 14th - 20th, 1987[]
Amy eventually finds her way back home.
As John tries to live his life in peace, he suddenly begins experiencing vivid dreams of Amy reaching out to him for help. In the dreams, she tells him to return to the house on the 21st, exactly one year since the failed exorcism, to finish what he started.
September 19th, 1987[]
The cult finally gets their hands on Amy once again. They seize her and drag her into the basement where her exorcism originally began. The Second Death ritual is performed on her. Animal sacrifices are prepared to be lowered into the portal in the hopes that this will bring forth the Antichrist.
September 21st, 1987[]
It's the anniversary of the failed exorcism. Before John leaves for the Martin House, he leaves behind a note for his wife, Molly. He writes that in case he doesn't come back, the Catholic Church may come around to tell her their version of what happened to him. He wants her to hear the story from him first. He writes that the news articles about the incident are not true, that Amy really had been possessed by a demon, that she cut the power to the house, and that she had killed everyone else in it with her bare hands. He states the nightmares he's been having are real, and that he is obligated to return to the house and save Amy. He doesn't expect to live to tell the tale in person, so he ends by saying to Molly that if he doesn't come back, he is sorry, and that he loves her.
Before John arrives at the house, the cult members in the area leave in order to gather more sacrifices for the ritual. They lock the door to the house so that nothing can get inside and potentially tamper with her. They hide the key in the nearby shed.
By night, John arrives at the house and begins his search for Amy. As he explores the premises, he discovers notes written by him during his time at Yale, notes by Cindy and others appearing from various cursed objects, and a strange white "chupacabra" creature periodically lunging at him from the darkness. He eventually finds the key to the house in the shed and makes his way inside, beginning his search for Amy.
The house is eerily silent. In the master bedroom, the mirror shows a silhouette of Amy stalking him at all times. The door to the attic is locked. In the basement. strange blood markings have appeared on the floor of the exorcism site. Stepping into it, demonic symbols begin to manifest from nowhere, trailing their way towards John.
John wakes up in Amy's bed. Amy suddenly creeps up from the foot of the bed to make her presence known, but then disappears as quickly as she arrived. John knows she is still here.
As John goes looking for her, more trails of demonic symbols appear before him. He points his cross at them and apparitions of Amy appear around him, which he also repels with the cross. Eventually, the demon stops attacking him, and he hears the door to the attic open. He makes his way up the stairs to find Amy standing alone in that same old room. A white sheet has been placed over her head. In his surprise, John asks Amy what happened to her. The demon responds for her, asking John if he thinks her face looks pretty. John musters determination and says that he's here to finish what he started. Amy's demon booms, "SHE IS MINE, PRIEST!" and the fight begins.
As John holds his cross up at Amy, Gray Demons emerge from the corners of the arena and slowly creep up towards John, which he must avoid. After some exorcising, Amy slowly takes the white sheet off of her head, revealing the gaping bloody hole where her face should be.
Amy summons satanic symbols from thin air and splits into three fake illusions of herself to kill off John, but he continues the exorcism. Eventually, a blood red arm suddenly sprouts from the hole in her face, causing Amy to contort in pain. This arm appears to belong to the Antichrist; the cult has successfully made contact with it on the other side.
A large pentagram suddenly manifests on the floor of the arena. Amy begins throwing her own body across the room between the five points on this pentagram. Bursts of satanic symbols are released around her, and Gray Demons periodically blast out from her face. After a long battle, John prevails and the demon's arm recedes back into the hole. Heavily weakened by the cross, Amy seemingly goes limp and stumbles towards the attic window. As John gets closer to check on her, she suddenly flings herself out of the window.
John rushes downstairs and out of the foyer to check on her, but notices that a rifle has been placed on the ground nearby, and the words, "KILL HER" are written backwards in blood across the floor. John picks up the weapon and remarks that there's only one bullet left. John steps outside with the rifle in hand.
After a brief search in the woods, John finds Amy wounded and nearly bleeding to death not too far from the house. She is standing motionlessly in a pool of her own blood, no longer able to fight back or even react to John's presence. Although tempted by the lettering inside the house, John remembers that he came here to save Amy, not kill her. So, he shakes off the urge to pull the trigger, and simply heads back to his car.
Just as John is about to enter his car, the chupacabra named Michael leaps out at him from beyond the trees and tries to ambush him once again. John still has Bob's rifle in hand, so with no other choice, he shoots the creature in self-defense. Michael bleeds profusely and cries in pain as he staggers onto Snake Meadow Hill Road. Suddenly, a truck driver barrels down the road and runs him over, killing him instantly.
John hops into his car and speeds away from the area. He recites a prayer to calm his nerves and briefly pauses, contemplating on what he had just encountered. He monologues that although he can't explain what happened at the Martin House, he'll have to remain optimistic and hold faith that he did the right thing.
Sometime after surviving the horrors of the house, John now feels immense guilt for leaving Amy to die from her wounds instead of getting help. He felt capable of freeing Amy's possession, but now he feels like an utter failure. His faith in God and himself has lowered from this experience, where his golden cross now appears to him as having degraded into a silver color.
Unbeknownst to him, his appearance at the Martin House perfectly coincided with the cult's first successful attempt to summon the Antichrist. Gary was ultimately right about Amy being the perfect vessel for the Second Death before John came along and screwed it all up. Without him banishing the Antichrist back to Hell before it could fully emerge, the arrival of the Profane Sabbath would have been set in stone, and the Eternal Order of the Second Death would have essentially accomplished their primary goal then and there.
Murderer[]
John instead decides to listen to the blood writing's advice. He locates the severely battered Amy not too far from the house. He draws near, aims the rifle at her, and fires. The bullet hits Amy in the stomach and kills her.
He shambles back to his silver sedan and drives away, contemplating on what he had just done. As he drives, a state trooper signals their siren and pulls him over, having heard the gunshot and initially assuming it to be poachers.
John becomes nervous and uneasy as he's approached by the officer, muttering "I've killed her," and "there was a demon inside her." He is taken to Sterling Police headquarters, where he confesses to killing Amy. The police then locate her body in the woods and attribute all of her injuries (gunshot wound to the stomach, injuries from jumping out the attic window, and the hole carved out of her face) to John's own doing. Due to his priestly clothing, authorities ask the Catholic Church for comment, but they state that he is not an ordained minister. This arrest is published to the local newspaper the next day, where it reveals that Amy had been missing for nine days after escaping a mental institution. John's fate is not overtly stated, but it can be assumed that he is imprisoned for his crimes and won't be released anytime soon.
September 28th, 1987[]
In the time during or before the week leading up to this day, John is made aware of several peculiar events that happened in the Sterling area (either from reading their local news or through other means), including: threeyoungpeople found decapitated in the woods nearby a cemetery, three paranormal investigators at the old Snake Meadow Hill Church going missing, and several bodies being recovered from a drainage ditch below Snake Meadow Hill Road. As John sleeps in his bed that night, these locations and stories all appear in his worst nightmare yet, as he believes them to somehow be connected to whatever he encountered within the Martin House, or feeling that he could have made a difference if he were there[2]. Amy also makes appearances throughout this dream, as John is now haunted by his second failure to save her.
The dream begins with John standing in the woods outside Gallup Cemetery. Here, he can exorcise a misaligned headstone to obtain Bob and Cindy's obituary, which interestingly notes that they are survived by Amy, as well as the twin boys, Nate and Jason Martin. John is not yet aware that the twins are not real.
As he exits the cemetery, he happens upon Snake Meadow Hill Church. Walking inside, he finds a confessional booth. Feeling compelled to open up about what's been on his mind, he enters the booth. He introduces himself to the "Father", asking it to pray for him. John recounts his first exorcism with Amy last year, saying that by failing to exorcise her demon, he turned his back on the Catholic Church and broke his vows to God. He tells it that Amy reached out to him again a year later, but he still couldn't save her and left her in the woods to die. He asks to be forgiven for his current and past sins. The thing on the other side of the grille gives John his penance: "BRING THE CHILD TO ME", claiming John will be forgiven if he performs this action.
Some time later, John finds the Spindly Lady and defeats her, opening up a secret trapdoor to the church's basement. The basement is very dimly lit, but John still catches a glimpse of a silhouette of Amy floating away from him. He eventually escapes the darkness of the basement and exits out of a small shed in the middle of the woods. After meandering through the trees, he comes across the bodies of three thralls, decapitated and placed in a ritualistic circle.
In the middle of the circle lies the newspaper article about their deaths. A couple paragraphs in, the article attempts to gaslight John into believing that he had lured Amy into the woods to murder her last week, and that he had also stalked and brutally slaughtered these other three individuals. The article mocks John for chopping off the victims' heads because everybody knows its the only way to kill a snake. But he didn't kill the snake - he cannot kill what cannot be killed - he could not kill Amy. Even now she is at his door - her hand is at his throat - yet he cannot see it. The article devolves into madness before text appears from Amy: "I'M HERE, JOHN".
John looks up from the newspaper article. Amy's demon booms, "YOU ARE MINE, PRIEST!" The three decapitated thralls now stand upright surrounding John, ablaze with fire. Cultists surround the area, and Amy can be spotted watching it all from behind a tree.
John suddenly appears in the Unseen World as a Wretch. He escapes back to the land of the living and returns to normal, finding himself in a drainage ditch leading to the Candy Tunnel. He enters the sewer network and eventually happens upon a sanctum hidden deep within. In this sanctum, he is met face to face with Miriam Bell. Before she can do anything to John, a gray figure appears from behind her and repels her with his cross.
The man accompanies John deeper into the sanctum to face off against Miriam. As he does this, they walk past a ritual site that appears strangely similar to the one John saw in the Martin House's basement during the second exorcism attempt. The man assures John that there wasn't much he could have done to save Amy, and that he is no murderer. He tries to give him hope that maybe her soul is now at rest.
John and the strange man battle Miriam before she transforms into the UNSPEAKABLE. John is not able to withstand its presence and wakes up.
John gets out of bed and finds a letter from somebody named Father Garcia, telling him that the two of them together must save Amy's twin brothers from the same fate as her, by rescuing them from the clutches of a cult before they are used to summon Malphas to Earth. John drives off to an unknown destination, likely to clear his head. He monologues, trying to form closure with Amy, saying that his work with her is done. He gains the confidence to press on by finding the twins and stopping the summoning of Malphas. He notes that his upcoming journey will be his greatest test of faith yet, and prays for God's strength, knowing that whatever he will come across will be worse than his vivid dreams.
It is not known how exactly Father Garcia knows about Amy and what happened to her, or how he heard about her twin brothers who (also unbeknownst to him) do not really exist.
Initiation[]
In the nightmare, John instead decides to follow the advice of the note left outside the Save Family Tomb on receiving the UNSPEAKABLE's blessing.
After his reflection stabs itself in the eye, he uses his blood to draw a pentagram between some rocks.
After defeating the Spindly Lady, he heads back out to the cornfield and retrieves the child for the thing in the confessional booth.
While bringing the child over, a silhouette of Amy can be seen floating away from the booth.
After being transformed into a Wretch, John climbs out of the drainage ditch and murders a stranded couple on the underpass.
After John wakes up, there is no letter from Garcia. Instead, his backdoor is open. He walks outside and is initiated into the cult. The UNSPEAKABLE descends upon him to give him its blessing. John's eyes bleed from its presence.
October 28th, 1987[]
A month later, John experiences a nightmare where he relives his first exorcism. The Martin House looks about the same as his last visit, but there's a drawing of Snake Meadow Hill Church on the fridge signed by Amy. When John approaches Amy in the basement, the dream suddenly flashes forward to the arm emerging from her face last month, and John wakes up in a panic.
Now awake, John finds a new letter from Father Garcia at the door. In it, Garcia updates him that he could not find Nate or Jason in the foster care system, thinking that they must have gone to live with other family members after the incident. He instructs him to explore the clinic Amy used to work at to see if the cult is preparing to summon Malphas there.
John parks at the destination and explores the building. Nearby the entrance lies a fax by Gary to his secretary, telling her to inform him if she hears back from Amy.
All John is able to find in the building is a strange woman standing alone in a secret second floor to the basement. With no sign of Malphas or the twins, he heads back home and awaits his next assignment.
October 29th, 1987[]
John experiences the recurring nightmare again, picking up where he left off with meeting Amy. He sees Allred unconscious with Amy no longer in sight. He picks up his superior's cross and wakes up.
John finds a new letter from Father Garcia, instructing him to explore an apartment complex in New Haven since the cult might be preparing to summon Malphas there. He also reads letters left behind by his childhood friend, Lisa Pearson, who begs him to come help her escape from her creepy neighbors. John drives to the destination and heads inside.
Inside the building, John is able to find a couple of notes from one of Gary's most devoted followers, Tiffany Robinson. It is revealed that she became envious of Amy being chosen by Gary to be the next vessel for the Second Death before her. In the time leading up to now, she had been silently trying to sabotage these plans (the success of which is not certain). She was eventually found out, and Gary later announced to his followers that she can no longer be trusted, and that Lisa has been chosen to be the next vessel. In retaliation, Tiffany summoned a demon named Alu to seal Lisa's door and block the cult's access to her, then performed the Second Death ritual on herself and hid away in the Unseen World, waiting for Gary.
John is able to remove the seal, banish Alu from the apartment, and save Lisa. After doing this, he senses that another seal has broken "somewhere beyond." John finds his way into the Unseen World and meets Tiffany. She calls out for Gary, believing to sense him behind her. John confuses her for Amy, leaving her upset that "Gary's favorite" was brought up at all. After a long battle, John eventually defeats Tiffany and makes his way back to the land of the living. Without having found the twins or the summoning site of Malphas, he drives back home.
October 30th, 1987[]
John's recurring nightmare picks up from last time. He begins searching the house for Amy. If John tries to look for her outside the house, he can catch a glimpse of Amy staring down at him from the attic window, illuminated only by the flashes of lightning. He gets to the attic to finish the exorcism, and soon jolts awake.
John checks his front door and finds his next assignment from Father Garcia, telling him to investigate a daycare center where he had gotten reports of children exhibiting strange behavior. This time, he's adamant that if they can find the twins there, they'll find Malphas as well. John parks at the destination, sneaks past the police officers stationed at the front, and heads inside.
Inside the daycare, he finds a hidden entrance to a network of tunnels. As he explores the catacombs, he is eventually ambushed by Gary, who injects him in the neck with a mysterious substance. It takes effect almost immediately.
Under the drug's influence, John sees a montage of vivid imagery as he is unconsciously massacring a wave of thralls. Among this imagery, John is seen back in the Martin House attic exorcising Amy as she frantically crawls around on all fours. John is also seen to cover his face with his hands, before Amy's hands come down from above and do the same.
John is eventually told by Gary, "Now you are ready." He is thrust back into his recurring nightmare, now outside the attic with the entrance blocked by a barrier of mannequins. John sees Bob and Cindy's corpses and then tries to retrieve Father Allred from the basement. Amy appears and rushes at him before the nightmare abruptly ends. Alternatively, John may choose to exit through the front door. However, when he tries to do this, he senses something behind him. He slowly turns around and sees Amy peering back at him from around a corner. A hand of unknown origin emerges from her mouth and turns the lights off, leaving John in the dark and ending the nightmare all the same.
John wakes up slumped over in a deeper part of the catacombs. He gets up and walks among the thralls decimated by his own hands. After the Unholy Spirit comes walking right up to him, he defeats it and later opens a door in a statue of Moloch. Inside the statue is a stairwell leading to a series of dark hallways. At the bottom of these stairs lies a new note, cryptically explaining the key to defeating "the Mother who stayeth suspended beneath the Crucible".
As John ventures forth and explores the darkness, he finds a strange door covered by a gigantic seal. He breaks the seal and enters the door. He finds a gathering of thralls standing and staring at him from the sides of a long, dark hallway. A loud voice makes itself known to John, giving him a riddle: "How do you make a portal to Hell?" As John keeps walking down the hallway, the thralls on either side begin contorting and fusing together as the voice continues the riddle. At the end, John finds the Martin twins holding hands in the darkness.
As John approaches, he realizes something is wrong, and becomes winded. He stops briefly to catch his breath; his eyes and mouth are now bleeding. He feels somebody is looming right behind him. He stands upright and opens his eyes. He works up the nerve to turn around. He finds an old man in a dark red cloak gleefully smiling at him, Gary. Gary respectfully greets him with his name and remarks that it's nice to finally meet him in-person.
October 31st, 1987[]
It is the day of the Profane Sabbath. John finds himself in front of Gary Miller, who crosses his hands and introduces himself. John realizes that he's the one who's behind all of his torment. Rightfully pissed off, he demands to know what's going on. Gary chuckles and removes his hood. He supposes that John has earned the privilege of receiving answers after coming all this way. He offers John the chance to ask three questions, but no more.
Among the six questions in total that John can ask, he decides to ask about Amy. Gary's body mutates greatly and says that she was the perfect vessel for the Second Death. However, he sulkily remarks that John came and screwed up everything. He ends with the affirmation that once John completes his journey, Amy will be his again.
With all questions out of the way, Gary tells John that he will make a fine sacrifice for the UNSPEAKABLE, and the two engage in battle. During this fight, Gary may summon apparitions of past foes, including one of Amy.
John prevails, and as Gary tries to grab him in a last-ditch effort, Father Garcia appears and shoots Gary in the face with a shotgun. He flees into the next room, and the two follow him. Garcia explains to John that the entrance to the Crucible is open, and that John must jump in and defeat Gary once and for all, by himself. He does so.
John jumps into the Crucible and finds himself in a dark, dilapidated version of the Martin House. Entering the attic, he finds a grotesque monster kneeling before a skeleton suspended upside down. The monster speaks and reveals itself to be Gary, in his true form. He explains to John that the remains are that of his mother, and that she was too old to become the Unholy Trinity. After so many years, he had found Amy to be the perfect vessel to take up the honor, but sourly mentions that the two of them both know how that turned out. Gary tells John that he has pursued him as far as he'll go, and only one of them can exit the Crucible alive. The two engage in a penultimate showdown.
As John and Gary fight, Malphas eventually materializes into the arena, aiding Gary in the fight. Still, John prevails. After both are thoroughly weakened by the cross, the two dematerialize and become phantoms, who both possess the body of Miriam as a last resort to kill John. Miriam howls in pain as the three of them together become Super Miriam. John fights the amalgamation, gaining the strength to withstand numerous blows. Eventually, John weakens the beast to the point that Gary and Malphas momentarily separate from Miriam. Suddenly, John remembers the note he found earlier, stating that "The cross hath the power to weaken the Mother, But only someone who is ablaze with purifying fire canst truly destroy Her." John runs to a brazier in the corner of the arena, and lights himself on fire. He quickly transfers the flame to Miriam. As she burns, Gary reverts to his human form and Malphas slowly vanishes into thin air. Miriam explodes into a gory mess, and her blood trickles down from the ceiling of the Crucible like rain.
Suddenly, Amy appears from the darkness and descends before John and Gary. Gary staggers his way towards her, muttering in Latin to convince her he is still fit to complete his Profane Trinity. As Gary opens his arms to embrace Amy's presence, the arm of the Antichrist erupts from Amy and grabs him by the face. Gary's eyes widen in shock as her demon says unto him, "FAILURE". The arm pulls Gary into Hell, destroying him.
Amy floats closer to John. The portal closes up and her face returns. John tries to apologize to Amy for not being able to save her. The true Amy responds. She forgives John, saying it's over now, and that the cult cannot hurt her anymore. She applauds John for his newfound bravery, and allows him to finally finish what he started.
John takes out his cross and recites the final line of the prayer of exorcism, which had been interrupted by Amy's parents one year ago. The demon is finally exorcised from Amy. Her skeletal remains appear on the ground, allowing her spirit to finally move on to the afterlife. John closes the prayer with an "Amen."
A New Purpose (Good Variant)[]
Should John have not banished allthreedemons that serve as triggers to neutralize the seal blocking entrance to the Crucible, John will have no choice but to purify the large slab hovering over the entrance to at least temporarily block it.
John and Garcia exit the daycare center and rest at Garcia's car. John solemnly sits down to collect his thoughts while Garcia lights a cigarette to decompress. Garcia assures John that while Gary and his Unholy Trinity were not destroyed, that the Profane Sabbath had at least been delayed. He asks John to join him in his mission of destroying the UNSPEAKABLE.
John recounts to Garcia that when he first met Amy last year, he saw the devil, who had tricked him. He doesn't believe he will ever be free of Amy, or that his faith will ever be as strong as before. Garcia assures him that since he knows the devil is real, the Lord must also be real. Garcia gears up and says that John's journey is just beginning, and that he will be his teacher. The two shake hands and drive off to an unknown destination.
A New Vessel[]
If John had let his fears get the better of him the day before, he will have driven away from the daycare center. The next morning, he wakes up in a panic and notices the atmosphere of his house is off. The cross above his bed has been inverted. Thunder rolls outside, illuminating a silhouette of Amy floating past the window. John realizes that the Profane Sabbath has found him at his home. Before it consumes him, he wishes to enter his forbidden room one last time. He dodges thralls and a giant centipede demon to retrieve the key from the basement.
Amy stands motionless in the back of the forbidden room among the filing cabinets. Her face is intact. The window of the Martin House attic is drawn onto the wall behind her. John doesn't know how she got here. He kneels before her. He asks what she wants from him - why she is tormenting him like this. He pleads with her that he only wishes for this nightmare to end. But before he can even finish that thought, a hand quickly reaches out of Amy's mouth and grabs John by the face. She says unto him, "UNFORGIVABLE."
John now appears in a stretch of forest leading to the Martin House. Entering the house, the inside now looks as dilapidated as the outside. John wanders through the house feeling sorry for himself, remarking that Amy didn't deserve any of what happened to her - that he should have saved her, and that she could have lived a normal life if he had just taken action.
He enters the twins' room. It's desolate, containing only two effigies of the twins overlooking graffiti of an eye on the floor. Seeing them, he is now completely emotionally defeated. He steps into the marking and falls to his knees. He raises his hands up in submission. Amy and Michael appear on either side of him to hold his arms steady.
Everything around John begins to fade away until he is left in total blackness. The hand of the Antichrist appears. It grabs John and takes his soul away into Hell.
John, along with the entire house, cease to exist, erased from memory.
Father Allred: "It's going to be alright, Father Ward."
"It's going to be alright, Father Ward."
Chapter III: Ending II
Gary is defeated
"FAILURE."
John: "Amy. I'm so sorry."
John: "I couldn't save you."
"John..." "It's okay."
"It's over now. They can't hurt me anymore."
"You've been so brave. But now... It's time to finish what you started."
Trivia[]
In general, Amy's circumstances and appearance is a nod to Regan from The Exorcist(1973)[3]. FAITH and this movie demonstrate common possession traits like suddenly speaking Latin (or a different language that they've never used before), crawling on all fours, screaming obscenities, insanely strong, etc., the typical "young girl possessed by demon" trope.
The dialogue where Amy mocks about John's mother being there with them is a reference to a scene in The Exorcist where Regan brings up Father Karass' dead mother before an exorcism begins.
The scene where Amy creeps up from behind her bed is a possible reference to Sadako Yamamura's appearance in Ring (1998)[4], where her hair entirely covers her face.
In the Martin Twin's bedroom, there's toys scattered throughout the house that share similar colors to the main characters of FAITH: Chapter I.
A small purple figurine is seen standing next to a larger reddish one with horns, possibly representing Amy and the cult's control over her.
The lone blue figurine below them may represent John on his quest to save Amy.
The gray and white figurines off to the side may represent Father Garcia and Michael, who just happen to be in the area as this is happening.
Many of Amy's lines in Chapter I are likely references to the Bible and other media.
"I'M THE ICON OF SIN." could be a reference to DOOM II's final boss, The Icon of Sin[5].
"ABANDON ALL HOPE!" is a portion of a phrase from Dante's Inferno which is written on the gates of Hell: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."[6]
"AND HELL FOLLOWED." could have a few meanings. It could be referencing a level of the same name in The Ultimate Doom[7], or could be a reference to Revelations 6:8 from the Bible[8], where a man named John witnesses the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Hell specifically follows the rider, Death.
"CROWN OF THORNS." of course refers to the crown of thorns that was placed upon Jesus's head when he was crucified.
"THE VEIL IS LIFTING." can literally refer to the white sheet on Amy's head that's covering her mutilated face. It could also be a reference to Exodus 34:30 - Exodus 34:35 from the Bible[9], detailing Moses placing a veil over his head whenever he was talking to the people of Israel and lifting it whenever he speaks to the Lord. Anytime he would communicate with the Lord, his face would appear shiny, which made the Israelites uncomfortable. In order to put them at ease while telling them what the Lord has commanded, he placed a veil over his head to conceal his shiny face.
"BABYLON." is most likely referencing Revelations 18:2 - Revelations 18:3 from the Bible[10]. Babylon, particularly in this verse because in other verses (and mostly in pop culture) it's an allegory for an evil city/country or governmental system, was a physical city that was corrupt with the teachings of false gods. The political system rebelled the ways of God and was the location where the Tower of Babel was built, a spiraling tower crafted in an attempt for people to communicate with God. The Lord condemned the city and burnt it to the ground for its wrongdoings. Demons and wicked beasts lurk in its remains. It's speculated that every demon on Earth originates from Babylon, which would tie back to where Amy's Demon came from (and why Amy would randomly scream it).
An excerpt from an email by Airdorf reveals some details about the symbols Amy uses in her fight (Shoutout to somebody named Pierrot for asking the question)[11]:
"While the satanic symbols are mostly made up, they are based on symbols found in the Candelabra, Candomble, Umbanda, and Quimbamda folk religions. Some of them have significance, though - the two connected arrows pointing up and down represent the paradigm of 'As Above, So Below', the circle with a trident representing the 'Second Death' ritual performed on Amy, the spiral being a reference to Junji Ito's 'Uzumaki'[12], and the dot with a half circle over it representing the concept of an 'All-Seeing Eye'."
There's a discrepancy with Gary's Letter in Chapter I. Gary states that Amy is seventeen years old. With context clues, this letter was supposed to be made around September of 1986 because it predates when Amy got possessed and her parents recently forbid her to work at the clinic. We don't know what date Amy was born but judging by the Murder Report in Chapter I she's seventeen years old. We could clamor it up as Gary not really knowing who she is and objectifies her since her only purpose is to be a vessel, but it seems like a genuine mistake on Airdorf's part. It would've been accurate in Gary's Letter to say that she's sixteen years old.
Most of Amy's rotoscope appearances in Chapter III were acted out by Airdorf's wife[13].
Airdorf himself acted out Amy's cutscenes for Chapter I, hence why Amy looks slightly masculine and has broad shoulders, which was mentioned in the interview with Wendigoon.
While her voice is produced with a text-to-speech voice engine called SAM, a real female human voice can be heard whispering along with the line, "SHE IS MINE, PRIEST."
According to Airdorf, Amy's purple color is a reference to Ancient Domains of Mystery, a roguelike RPG released in 1994 that primarily uses ASCII graphics. Apparently, all the "chaos/corrupted beings" from the game are rendered purple[14][15].
This establishes that every purple-colored entity in the FAITH series is abnormal or corrupted, so that includes Amy, her twin brothers, the doomed children, and the Daycare Center.
Click here for footage of Amy's boss battle, with no notes collected, and an integer showcasing how much HP she has. Big shoutout goes to eughstein for finding out the hidden features of how dynamic Amy's boss battle is, and modding the game to show how much HP she has.
