Ophelia Album

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The Ophelia Album is a book of photographs in Fatal Frame: A Curse Affecting Only Girls. Originally, it was a gift from Mio Takaishi to her lover. She wrote a love poem inside it, and placed their photos side by side on the first page. By offering up the photographs in the nearby shrine, they were joined in a ghost marriage, which ensured that they would be together forever in the afterlife.

However, when Mio's lover betrayed her, the album became the focal point of the curse Mio visited on her as revenge. The girl she had loved, who would grow up to become the Headmistress of Saint Loudun's Academy for Girls, was forced to place more photos beside Mio's in the album, and the girls thus selected were spirited away to join Mio in the water, unable to truly die. The Headmistress herself would live forever, cursing a girl every three years.

The last picture the Headmistress placed in the album was that of Maya Tsukimori, the twin of Aya. After that, the Headmistress was troubled by guilt and refused to curse any more girls. She and Taruho Saginomiya destroyed the ghost marriage shrine and built a new one, but all the old photos reappeared in an underground worship hall beneath the Headmistress's office, and the Ophelia Album appeared in the basement of the new shrine. A few local people knew of it, and would occasionally use it to curse one another.

The album eventually fell into the hands of Taruho, who encouraged her little brother Takashi to enter a ghost marriage with one of the girls inside. Takashi chose Maya, and as a result, she was called forth from under the water. Takashi called her Ophelia, and placed her in a water tank in the forest so that he could visit her. When the girls at Saint Loudun's began to use Maya's photograph in the love-charm practised at the school, Takashi made sure the photos were all placed in the Ophelia Album, so that the girls would be spirited away to Maya's side.

While investigating the curse, Aya and Michi find the album in the basement of the shrine and learn the truth about the Headmistress. At last, Taruho gets it back, and she and Takashi place their photos in it, side by side, before committing suicide together. It is not clear what happens to the album after that, but the ending suggests that the curse is not over.

Characters
Major Characters
Aya Tsukimori - Headmistress - Kasumi - Mary - Maya Tsukimori - Michi - Risa - Susumu Kusakabe - Takashi Saginomiya - Taruho Saginomiya
Minor Characters
Itsuki - Keiko Makino - Kuro Karatsu - Mio Takaishi - Nagi - Ritsuko - Waka
Terms
Ophelia Album - Ophelia's Song - The Girls' Curse - Yuukon
Locations
Saint Loudun's Academy for Girls
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