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Riba is the tritagonist turned overarching antagonist in (Mario) The Music Box. He is also the main antagonist of the Sane route, and a minor protagonist of the Insane route in (Mario) The Music Box -ARC-. His last name is hinted to be Aduraice from a diary page written about Alice, meaning his full name is Riba Aduraice. He is first encountered as an NPC and then a playable character for a short time.
Appearance[]
Riba is a man who looks to be in his mid 20's. He has dirty blonde hair, light skin, gray eyes, wears a pair of glasses, and a brown business-like suit with a red tie.
Personality[]
Riba can be described as a calm and serious individual compared to Mario and Luigi. He doesn't show too much fear despite the situation. For example, he is capable of navigating through the halls without a need for a light source, even though it leaves him vulnerable. In some cases, he also seems to be somewhat afraid of Alice, which hints about the nature of his relationship with her.
When being pursued by her, he will try his best to avoid any contact with Alice, such as locking doors or hiding, even though he can overpower the body she's possessing. Riba seems to greatly dislike human beings, which hints that he is not human himself. The reasons are currently unknown, but it could be because he either simply can't relate to one or he had a negative experience in his past involving them.
Riba's personality varies depending on the route chosen. In the True/Normal ending route, he is shown to be sadistic. His sadist side has mostly been shone towards Alice during the time she was going through an incurable disease. He offered her a chance at immortality in exchange for her entire family being sacrificed. This, however, was a lie, as he watched Alice murder her family members one-by-one in amusement.
History[]
It is confirmed that Riba's caring side was the result of memory loss due to his many deaths at the mansion. It is also revealed that Riba had been in a relationship with Alice in the past, which explains why she had some sort of connection with him throughout the course of the game.
When his true personality is revealed, he is a cruel and cold-hearted person who loved to see people suffer. In fact, Riba never even loved Alice to begin with, which explains why he was her sole target throughout the game. When Mario and Luigi discover an old family photo, Riba was in the picture. The house had been abandoned for decades, which meant that Riba wasn't human, due to looking the same throughout the timeline. When Riba met Alice in the past, the two had fallen in love and Riba had become a part of her family. Alice loved Riba dearly, but he didn't in return. He had a child named Serina, with Alice. Later at some point, she had an unknown disease that drastically shortened her lifespan (said disease is unknown). Alice was driven to insanity because she did not want to die at such a young age. When Riba discovered this, he used this as an advantage to make a deal with her. Alice was to sacrifice her whole family and anyone else that lived in her mansion so she could obtain immortality and live forever with Riba.
Much to his amusement, Riba had enjoyed watching as Alice slaughtered her entire family one-by-one. When the ritual was believed to be close to completion, with Serina supposedly being the final sacrifice, she was murdered by his daughter, Anna during that same time due to Anna's jealousy towards her taking its toll on her sanity, and buried her body near the abandoned mine shaft. When Alice found out, she became furious and killed Anna in cold blood. With Serina's corpse missing and Anna not being a suitable sacrifice due to her being an outsider to the family, Alice's ritual was incomplete.
Her skull was then bashed in with a crowbar at the hands of her lifelong lover as soon as she discovered Riba's true intentions. This led to her spirit haunting the halls of the mansion, waiting to get her revenge on him someday. However, she had already cursed the mansion before her death, trapping Riba within the mansion. He had seemingly forgotten Alice's true intentions by the time Mario and Luigi had came by to investigate.
When Mario was possessed by Alice's spirit, Riba used this as an advantage to make him into a sacrificial host for her. When Mario read Anna's note, he was close to uncovering the mystery behind the mansion, before Riba snatches the note and tears it to shreds. To gain Alice's trust again, he continued on with her wishes by trying to complete the ritual so she could be with him forever before possibly turning against her once again. However, Alice ends up betraying Riba during the ritual and slits his throat. Though, she literally stabs him in the back in the remastered version.
Trivia[]
- Riba is the only playable character to die in most routes. His fate in the ending of "Missing" is unknown due to the player not progressing towards any route where he is shown being killed.
- It is revealed in the extension of (Mario) The Music Box, (Mario) The Music Box -ARC-'s public demo that Riba was still alive inside the mansion's basement as he appears and asks Mario if he missed him.
- Riba is the only playable character out of the 3 to not have an actual CG death scene. All his deaths will always switch to the game over screen the moment he's killed.
- Despite being someone who understands the dangerous situation he gets himself into, Riba can also be quite clumsy. This can be shown when Alice chases him down the hall and he has to find a place to hide in a room. Riba can choose to pose as a Lamp to hide rather than hiding in a much more obvious place when Alice enters the room, causing her to be ashamed of the man she once loved before killing him.
- In (Mario) The Music Box -ARC-, Mario says that Riba's jacket smells like fish. This refers to how his name actually means fish in Slovenian.
- Riba loves apples. In (Mario) The Music Box -ARC-, Riba's personality is completely changed to good, when Mario gives him an apple.
- If you give Riba the unknown liquid, he will feel a burning pain and it's revealed that the unknown liquid was holy water (because he's a demon) and will take the knife from Mario and stab himself to death. Mario then apologizes to Riba about what he did.
- Despite being enemies with Marchionne, Riba shares a lot of similarities with him. Both of them have tried to kill Mario in Arc while the other man acted as an ally and helped him (in the sane route, Riba was trying to kill Mario and Luigi while Marchionne was helping out Mario. In the insane route, Marchionne was trying to kill Mario while Riba was acting as an ally), they both hate Alice since she was responsible for the death of their loved ones (Luciano and Marchionne's parents and Elizabeth and Anna respectively), and they both were former humans that were turned into supernatural entities (Riba becoming a demon while Marchionne had turned into a witch). They both typically keep the appearance of a normal human but on rare occasions reveal their true forms (the only difference here is Marchionne shows his witch form in the final phase of his boss fight, while Riba reveals his demonic form only in the Missing End B ending). Additionally they are both skilled manipulators that have tried to take advantage of Mario as well (Riba throughout the entire series just uses Mario as a means to finally escape, while Marchionne in the insane route tries to take advantage of Mario's guilt and misery).
- Interestingly, Riba is one of the two bosses that can't be beaten by being fought and depleting his health (the other being Len). It's unknown if this was unintentional, or if this was done purposefully to show how much of a threat Riba is.
External Links[]
- Riba Aduraice on the Near Pure Evil Wiki.
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