He takes in Jennifer after her parents died in an accident, before Jennifer is admitted to the local orphanage.
We discover at the end of the game that Gregory is the storybook maker, a man who has gone mad with grief over his dead son. Rule of Rose is structured through a set of storybooks which act as chapters, each one exploring a “princess”, one of the orphans who torment Jennifer. The writer of the Wikia page suggests that it is Wendy who is to blame for these events, but there are several holes in this story: why did Gregory kill Wendy and not Jennifer? And is it plausible that Wendy would be able to “train” a man to act like a dog? It also ignores that this is primarily a story about the fantasy world that is built between female friends. IMO, the Wikia’s account is overly literal – it does not take into account the fact that this game is told from Jennifer’s unreliable perspective. This is different to the account on the Wikia page, which places the blame squarely on Jennifer’s best friend, Wendy. Jennifer is the one who convinces Gregory to kill the children. This post has a rather radical assertion to make about what really happened at the orphanage… In reading the plot of the game on the Rule of Rose Wikia, I realised that my interpretation of events was rather different…*heavy spoilers up ahead*
I decided to write this post because of an analysis I read which I didn’t find totally satisfying. Rule of Rose is all about the unreliability of memory and the differing perspectives one has as a child and as an adult. You might ask “what do you mean, what happened? Can’t you tell?”, but horror often relies on ambiguity to create tension and mystery, and Rule of Rose is no exception. To ask “what really happened?” after playing a fifteen hour game may seem strange.
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