Keiko masashige

As of right now, she is the only monster that replaces another monster (in Nightmare Mode). She is one of the characters to have her lore change, with that being her becoming the new protagonist in The Witch Trials. In Nightmare IV, when Yasu enters the school, her soundtrack is a different pitch than Daku's. Keiko is one of the few characters who has written notes. In her case, she wrote two notes. Keiko bears a resemblance to Sadako Yamamura, the main antagonist of Ring, a series of horror novels written by Koji Suzuki. Sadako also appears in different various movies and pieces of media, including the 1998 Ring (リング, Ringu), and the American 2002 remake, The Ring. The name Keiko is written in various kinds of kanji—however, a common meaning of Keiko means "Happy" (Kei/慶) and "Child" (ko/子). When Yasu is noticed and her chase theme starts playing, Keiko's animation changes. Instead of her arms down at her sides, they are slightly faced backward. An interesting fact, if she sees you trying to run out of the hall to go to the front of the school, she will still follow you, just like Kusonoki Masashige in his maze. She can even follow you into places where she's not supposed to go, such as the school canteen. Her former soundtrack is Midori no Chiheisen (緑みどりの地ち平へい線せん).[1] In English, the term translates to Green Horizon. Her new soundtrack is the recreation of it titled Green Horizon.[2] Keiko's now removed favorite song happens to be Midori no Chiheisen 緑の地平線 as mentioned before facing Kusonoki in the third part of Chapter IV.[1]Keiko has the most jumpscares in The Mimic as of the moment, with a total of six jumpscares (including Nightmare IV). She is one of the few monsters in The Mimic that is seen to be floating. A fanart of Keiko makes a cameo in The Mimic Wiki's "Upcoming" template, showing her looking in a certain direction. Keiko and her husband both have barbed wires wrapped around their upper bodies and faces. Keiko and Daku both have the same chase theme.

She will scream at Yasu while bowing down a little bit, with her hand behind her back, and will also shake her head uncontrollably.

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Decently fast and aggressive: Despite still being one of the fastest monsters, she's a bit slower than your sprinting, therefore making it possible to outrun her to go into some safe spots. It's harder to tell which floor she is on due to her audio cues being louder than before, and her AI path being different. However, if you know the timing and her AI path well, then you can tell when she is on the same floor as you or not.

Previous

Fast and aggressive: Keiko is extremely fast, about as fast as Futao. Most of the time, she is faster than the player, and when chasing, she may be as fast as (or even faster) than the player when sprinting. Her audio cues are loud breathing. If she is on the opposite floor from you, then it will sound muffled, but if she is on the same floor as you, it is "vice versa".

Control's Book

Chapter IV

Keiko is first seen in our house upstairs, in our bedroom, seemingly floating. Only the lower portion of her body is seen in the doorway, though. As the player approaches, the door automatically closes, and Keiko vanishes when it opens back on its own.

She can be spotted in the other room of the basement staring at us while reading her note about her husband suddenly being missing and her being stuck in the basement for thirty days with no clue at all. She disappears, just like earlier, when she vanished in our bedroom.

Keiko can also be seen in the barricaded room found in the basement, lying on a stone pedestal surrounded by crates, where she is mistaken for a "Halloween prop" by her son, Yasu. Upon leaving the barricaded room, Keiko will proceed to jumpscare you.

She makes another appearance, unexpectedly passing by Yasu at the end of the stairs leading down to The Bloody Swamp.

Keiko jumpscares the player for a few moments after they get the key from the safe room. In the third part of Chapter IV, before encountering Kusonoki in the Cursed Forest, Yasu sees a radio, noticing that it has not been placed there before, then having the jumpscare of Keiko. Note that the devs didn't change the jumpscare after the revamp, so the jumpscare still uses her previous model.Nightmare Mode

Keiko appears in the same place as Daku in Normal Mode. However, Keiko is seen roaming the school, replacing him in the school of Chapter IV, and will chase you if you are detected by her. She has a different sound cue than the rest of the monsters when you encounter her, as well as a different AI path.

Bad Ending

Keiko can be seen trapped on Saigomo's web along with her husband and her son as Kintoru taunts Yasu by stating that humans are so easy to deceive.

Keiko is a kind and caring mother who tries her hardest to protect her son by writing him a warning about Kintoru. She dearly loved her son and did not want him to suffer the same fate as her husband and herself. She is a caring and defending mother. She has very similar traits to Futaba. The biggest difference, though, is that she doesn't have any form of impulsive disorder.

At some point in her life, Keiko met a man named Daku, whom she soon married. Together, they had a son they named Yasu. Keiko is a very kind and loving mother and wife, as she sang Yasu a lullaby every night when he was younger and read him bedtime stories. She also loved her husband, Daku, as she showed concern when he started to have trouble walking and caught a cold and later looked for him when he disappeared from school.

Keiko's Curse

After the sudden disappearance of her husband, Daku, Keiko crossed paths with Kintoru at Yasu's school. Shortly thereafter, she was imprisoned in her own house's basement for at least 30 days and was under Kintoru's curse.

She haunts the family house, taking the player by astonishment as they explore it. Keiko can be encountered in Yasu's school.

The Lifting Of The Curse

After Yasu destroys Kintoru's three hearts, defeats her in battle, and seeing through Kintoru's deceptive deal, everything seems to turn back to normal, but neither Keiko nor Daku retains the memory of the previous incidents of them being cursed by Kintoru. Still, Keiko and Daku have been freed from the curse while the other ancestors of the Masashige Family have finally passed away.

The gamemode describes itself as both taking placed in the Edo period and taking place thousands of years before the game's story. Unless the later Books take place in the far future, this is incorrect, as the Edo period occurred in the 16-1800s, which is centuries ago, not millennia ago. The poem in the Nightmare Mode ending is actually Kintoru, as her lines were red while Futaba's lines are pale yellow in the Normal Mode. It's revealed that despite being helpful to the player, the Butterfly Spirits are in fact harmful as well. This is evident on the scene where Futaba consumed a Spirit that resulted her soul getting divided into two and becoming a puppet of Kintoru. Then again, devouring a sapient being probably warrants that. The Witch Trials may be the only gamemode of The Mimic that uses two different ending cutscenes. The cutscenes differ from each other in Normal Mode and Nightmare Mode. The monsters in The Witch Trials don’t instantly kill the player, instead the player takes a big amount of damage when first hit by them. The Witch Trials used to have limited lives in Normal Mode just like Nightmare Circus when it released, but later it was removed. Juno Masashige was the former protagonist of The Witch Trials.[1] She was replaced by Keiko Masashige because of Juno's inconsistent characterization determined her irrelevance to the lore of The Mimic, including her disconnection from most characters. Keiko Masashige was seen as the most suitable protagonist by 73% of the fans in a vote held on March 20 2023, in The Mimic's discord server. The Witch Trials is the most outdated Gamemode in The Mimic. It has been confirmed that it will be revamped after Jealousy's Book: Chapter IV.

Part 1: The Chambers of The Lost Souls Part 2: The Forest Part 3: Kyoto Town

Keiko Masashige (Protagonist) Kintoru (Easter Egg; Cutscene) Enzukai (Easter Egg; Cutscene) Netamo (Easter Egg; Cutscene) Yuma (Easter Egg; Cutscene) Kusonoki Masashige (Past version; cutscene) Fleshbags (Minor antagonist) Kazeko (Minor antagonist) Hanzu (Minor antagonist) Futaba (Major antagonists) Futao Mote Hiachi (Cutscene) Shaku (Cutscene)

Part III

A cinematic plays, showing Futaba, Hiachi's mother. Futaba was an abusive mother due to her impulsive disorder in which she described herself as "unnatural." She and her daughter were shunned by their neighbors as a result. Futaba then made a pact with the "demon" one day to end her burden. The demon told her that if she ate a Butterfly Spirit, her desires would be fulfilled and would become normal. Futaba, however, fell into Kintoru's trap after consuming the Spirit, believing that her wish would actually come true. Kintoru split her soul in half, dividing the two figures and personalities, and turned her into her own pawn.

Keiko is tasked to solve two skull puzzles in the neighborhood with Futao and Mote mindlessly roaming the area. She must also obtain the two various Butterfly Spirits, which are inside them. Futao bears the normal spirit, while Mote carries the corrupted one. After taking the spirits from them, Keiko must burn the spirits to two fire pits in a cave near the exit in order to escape.

Ending

Normal

If the player completes the Normal Mode of The Witch Trials, they will get this ending where Futaba claims that she is not a bad mother and realizes she is under control:

"I'm not sick."

"I'm not a bad mother."

"She did this, she planned it from the start."

"She kept CONTROLLING me."

"She made me this way..." Nightmare

If in Nightmare Mode, the player will get a different dialogue where Kintoru recites a poem in a red text:

"Control was sent to the East, where she cannot feast."

"Jealousy was sent to the bottom of the sea, part of a forgotten legacy."

"Rage was trapped in His strongest cage, seething with wrath and counting his days."

"Rebirth was sent deep in the Earth, watching the world in reverse."

"4 shall stand, all shall fall."

The timeline where it all began, thousands of years before. Japan's Edo Period. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WITCH TRIALS.

Part I

The Witch Trials starts with an unknown voice that explains an exaggerated story about The Four Beasts:

"Four beasts rampaged across the earth, Control, Jealousy, Rage, and Rebirth,"

"For ten days, they raged against their glided cage,"

"And for ten nights He fought against our people's plight,"

"The earth shook and our oceans burned, as He fought for weeks, his back unturned."

"He overcame these creatures, escaped unhurt, and sealed these monsters, all around our earth,"

"And so you, my child, who comes from Him, our people's future, decided by your whims."

Keiko starts off at a small village in a forest, looking perplexed. She then travels across a bridge that leads to a chamber where she must offer the scrolls of Control, Jealousy, Rage, and Rebirth to their respective statues. However, it will not be easy to attain them. She must grab the scrolls from the Fleshbags in order to continue her journey. After offering all of the scrolls to their perspective stones, a secret door in the maze opens, and Keiko escapes. Part II

Keiko enters in a meager, quiet setting with a minka across her. She passes into the empty house, which has an interior splattered in maroon blood and groups of skulls as she is taunted by some entity. The house then precedes a forest beyond. While looking for a way out of the forest, Keiko must hide in the bushes to avoid being attacked by Kazeko and Hanzu. Her task is to offer a white blade and a black blade on an altar in order to break through the chained cave. However, she needed to acquire a key to unlock the first blade, with another key and a blue butterfly being needed for the second.

Keiko was a young adult woman with pale skin and long, black hair. She donned a green button-up shirt with purple floral patterns and denim blue bell-bottom jeans and boots.

Keiko looks similar to her previous model. She is an unnaturally tall woman with long black hair that reaches to her shoulders. She has hollow eyes with a neutral expression and high eyebrows. Her face is stained with dirt and grime and perhaps blood. She wears a long dirtied white dress that falls just above her bare feet and is splattered with large bloodstains, especially around her chest area. Barbed wires cover her eyes, mouth, shoulders, and chest, similar to her husband, Daku. She has greyish-white skin.

Part 1

"I keep getting these strange visions." "Why do I keep hallucinating things?" "What does she want from me...?" "A butterfly spirit I can use this for a door." "I might need to do some sort of puzzle for this door." Part 2

"What was that?" "My eyes must be deceiving me." "I recognize this place." "I saw this exact spot earlier walking down that bridge." "I didn't want to use another spirit but I needed to escape somehow." "What do you want from me?" "Please... just let me live." "I need to do something first." "I need a key." "Looks like I have to use a blue spirit for this one." "I need a key." Part 3

"This is the exit."

Notably, Keiko Masashige was part of the Masashige Family while Daku Masashige was not. Since she was the surname holder of the family, The Masashige Family would've gone extinct if Keiko changed her surname to Daku's bachelor name. Despite having a biological aunt and niece relationship, Megumi does not know Kuriko was her niece and vice versa. Megumi's adoption of Kuriko was purely coincidental and they tended to have more of an adoptive mother-daughter relationship rather than an aunt and niece relationship [1]. Juno was a former member of the Masashige family. She is no longer related to them due to how disconnected she is from the rest of the Control's Book characters presented in the game.[2] The surname "Masashige" (正成) means "To become justice" composed of the characters for "Correct, justice, righteous" (正) and "To become, turn into" (成). This may be a reference to Kusonoki Masashige's works for justice as he was the one who put an end to The Four Beasts' rampages and exterminated the havoc they brought to Earth.

The members of the bloodline were cursed due to the fact that Kusonoki made a deal with Kintoru. However, some of them weren't affected (e.g. Yasu). After the death of Kintoru, the curse dematerialized, meaning the bloodline wasn’t cursed anymore. Yasu's ancestors are no longer attached to this world and are currently living happily in the afterlife. The first monster Yasu ever encounters in Control's Book is Hiachi Masashige. Anyone who marries the Masashige family, regardless of gender, will have their last name as Masashige. This is because Kusonoki was very respected in his time. This is still relevant in modern day as Daku changed his last name to Masashige after he married Keiko. A Lore Writer has informed that twenty years after being cursed as a pawn of Kintoru, the victims (including the Masashige Family) will automatically go to the afterlife once they are freed from the curse; or more simply, they are automatically dead. However, this does not apply to Yasu's friends as they were sacrificed and are now forever trapped in limbo.This also does not apply to Daku and Keiko, as they were cursed for only two to three years. Therefore, they turned back to their human forms with no recollection of the incident. Daku is a part of the Masashige bloodline by-law because he married Keiko. He is not part of the genealogy by blood at all. The same case may apply to Niko, as it is very unlikely that the family would promote inbreeding. Her marriage with Kaito was likely arranged by their families. This resulted Niko changing her maiden name to Masashige after her marriage with Kaito.Keiko and Yasu are the only descendants that survived Kintoru's curse. Although Daku and Keiko were briefly deceived and cursed by Kintoru, they were eventually freed from the curse and returned back to human. It is possible that the male line of The Masashige Family died out since there are no direct male descendants of Kusonoki Masashige after Kaito Masashige's generation.

One day, she decides to make a deal with a demon.

The demon promised her that if she devoured a butterfly spirit she would become normal. Contrarily, it turned her into something far worse. The butterfly spirit then splits her soul into two to resemble her two identities. One that represents her motherly side and one that represents her impulsive side. She was cursed by the demon and became one of her puppets.

Keiko needs to collect two spirits from Futaomote while trying not to get killed by them as they are extremely apace. Futao possesses the normal spirit, while Mote boasts the corrupted one. After this, the player will obtain the badge for completing TWT. In Nightmare/Hardcore mode, the cutscene at the end will be different, with a poem about the four beasts and hints about the locations of their seals.

Save his parents (Bad Ending): Kintoru has deceived Yasu and he is now under her control, seen on her web along with his parents. This gives the Bad Ending badge. Kill Sama (Good Ending): Yasu decided to kill Kintoru, and her body is carried away by several arms. This gives the Good Ending badge, after which all the ancestors are freed along with Yasu's parents, who seem to have no remembrance whatsoever of the past incidents. The Witch Trials

The Witch Trials is not a chapter, but rather a gamemode. It is also important to note that The Witch Trials is a prequel, meaning it took place long before the events of Control's Book, but this does not mean that it is irrelevant to the current lore. The MC this time is not Yasu, but Keiko Masashige, his mother.

It starts with a cutscene about the story of the four beasts who roamed the earth, cursing human beings. Kusonoki was the samurai who defeated and sealed these beasts. Keiko needs to go across a bridge and obtain a butterfly spirit that can be found amidst the trees, with which she will unlock the entrance to the Chamber of Lost Souls. Then, after collecting four scrolls from The Fleshbags and offering them to the respective statues, she can exit the chamber.

After escaping the chambers, Keiko passed through a Minka with several doors and went into a forest. She needs to collect two blades, one of dark and one of light, and offer them to a hilt inside of a pagoda while avoiding Hanzu and Kazeko who are roaming around The Forest. After escaping The Forest, she wakes up in a town where she meets Futaomote, the mother of Hiachi. She then told Keiko about her past, through the story, she found out Futaomote had a disorder. In her impulsive identity, she would abuse her daughter. In her motherly identity, she was a truly kind and loving mother who wanted her daughter to have the best life possible. The whole town shunned her and her daughter owing to her disease, she just wanted to be normal.

Chapter IV

As Yasu enters his house, he is required to find two keys and unlock doors in the house, to open a door inside his basement to obtain the final key. Yasu's mother, Keiko is also seen in the basement. He thinks of her as a "Halloween prop". She disappears after giving him a jumpscare. Near her is a crate with a key on top of it, which Yasu collects. He then unlocks the door and goes down a staircase where he encounters several mannequins or wooden dolls that move while not being looked at, known as Tokito. After walking past the bloody swamp, Yasu goes through a door and is teleported back to his school. He has to collect butterfly spirits (the number ranging from 10-15) around the school while hiding in lockers and classrooms to avoid being caught by his father, Daku, who was deceived by Kintoru. In Nightmare Mode, he is replaced by Keiko.After leaving the school, he enters a building where he has to open a door with a spirit, enter a code to obtain a key, and go to the next part, which is Kusonoki's maze. After burning six cursed pieces of Kusonoki's armor in a white flame, he is freed from the curse. It is then revealed to Yasu by Kusonoki, who is his great x10 grandfather, that he had made a deal with Kintoru to sacrifice himself in order to free his daughter which cursed the entire bloodline. He then proceeds to give Yasu his blessed blade, with which he is supposed to vanquish Kintoru, also known as Sama in her Saigomo form, by destroying all her hearts but also gave a warning beforehand. Yasu then destroys Saigomo's three hearts, to which he's transported elsewhere to fight Kintoru herself.

Chapter III

After Yasu escapes the witch, he walks across the shallow water which leads him to an enormous building. Inside the building, he finds a crowbar and solves code-based puzzles to open doors where the place starts to flood. He escapes, and encounters a swamp with blooming pinkish-red Sakura trees with Kaito lurking around. He finds a small house and solves a puzzle to align the spirits, which opens a small cabinet door that holds a sacred katana for him to offer in some sort of shrine to open the sealed exit. After escaping Kaito, hands burst out of the walls at intervals, and Yasu has to time himself to avoid these hands and make it to the end. Here is a commonly seen thing throughout the game, another Sakura tree with a long centipede hatching from an egg. Yasu collects a butterfly spirit from the tree and sacrifices it to proceed, as Kintoru laughs on at him. He is then teleported into a Minka, where he needs to offer a rose, a blade, and a corrupted spirit to unlock a door.As he reaches Mihari's maze where he needs to find bells to ring in order to unlock Mihari's Butterfly Spirit, which he then burns, subsequently burning Mihari to death. Afterwards, Yasu once again is in the same Minka as before. In the area where he had to sacrifice the rose, the spirit, and the blade, is the corpse of Kaito with a key next to him on a table. He travels through a passage filled with paintings and then reaches a lake area with massive stone pillars, where he solves skeleton puzzles while being chased by Kintoru again, but in her Omukade form. After Yasu solves the puzzles, the exit opens, and walks through a hall with the monsters he encountered in his journey in webs with Kintoru revealing to him that these are his ancestors and her puppets. In the end, he reaches back home but contemplates it. Omukade is seen holding Biwaki, Kuriko, Hiachi, Kaito, Mihari, Megumi, Kusonoki, Shizu and Shaku by puppet strings, signifying that she has control over them.

He then enters back to the school where it slowly transitions to the hotel and finally into a hospital with multiple clones of dolls. He goes ahead and bumps into two mazes, only to encounter the doll from earlier named Shaku. However, unlike the duplicates from earlier, this one is actually hostile and will chase you in the maze. Yasu has to find a key and unlock a door, then he has to find a butterfly spirit in the second maze for the gleaming door beside it. However, the second maze still has Shaku in it, but now it's a big, mutated monster that chases him inside. Once Yasu gets the butterfly spirit and uses it to unlock the door, he finally escapes the hospital.

He enters a relinquished village. This is where he finally meets the voice in his head named Kintoru, who tells him that he will never escape his curse. While being chased around the town by Kintoru at an insanely apace speed, Yasu uses the safe houses to hide and avoid her at all costs. Eventually, he finds one out of three gardens that holds a butterfly spirit and uses it to open a spirit door to finally escape.

while being chased by a handicapped lady named Kuriko. As Yasu escapes the hotel, he embarks in a different area and was notified by a peculiar voice that he is in the Imperial Palace.

Chapter II

Yasu walks through a path as the gates of the palace automatically open and finds a servant that can stretch her neck to an extent. He managed to evade her and goes up a staircase, which leads him into a hallway where the monster cannot catch him. He goes to the room to the right of the hallway and finds a key and goes back down the staircase. Here, he finds a door that he unlocks and finds a lever inside the small room. Yasu pulls the lever which opened the door for him to pass through. After he goes through the door, he finds himself in a protracted hallway with turns.As he reached the end, he passes through an area with several planks on which he has to walk across, finding another lever to flick. It opens a large gate, where he meets a figure named "Friend" by the voice. After escaping him, Yasu discovers through the place which he finds a butterfly spirit for the vivid door that leads him to the "Realm of The Forgotten."

Yasu explores the place full of pink and red Sakura Trees until he came upon a river with a "friend" he encountered earlier, glaring down at him before moving on. He walks across a bridge, seeing a vast Sakura Tree with chains and papers about an accursed witch and groups of vibrant butterflies leading him to another butterfly spirit and a door for the butterfly to be used on.

Chapter I

Years after the Edo Period, Kusonoki's descendant, Yasu decides to go back to his old high school (La Quinta) in search of his lost friends. He follows a trail of bloody footprints which lead to the gym, passes outside and around the swimming pool, and ends in a room with a key in it. The room also appeared to have some kind of ritual arranged in it. He unlocks a door and walks by a Sakura Tree to another classroom where he finds another key but sees a tall white girl twitching her head and suddenly vanishes. Yasu proceeds to unlock the door using the key. He entered the basement, where he sees the same girl from earlier. The girl can be heard weeping but vanishes from thin air as he goes closer. He then enters a small city in his home country. He realizes that this town was not normal. He makes his way across a broad bridge leading to a maze where he escapes a monster named "Hiachi" who chases him around the maze.Yasu managed to escape and arrives in a village. He walks and finds himself near a hut where a farmer talks about his (the farmer's) brother who is missing. The farmer also told Yasu that if he had seen a lady playing the biwa, it was already "too late". Yasu stumbles upon a cave with two paths, each infested with statues. Some of the statues can move. Once he escapes the statues, he pulls a lever, opens a gate, and quickly makes his way along a path lined with the same statues who do not inflict any harm. After entering a cave beneath a minka, Yasu reaches a hotel which made him discombobulated and question how did he end up there.On the first floor, he first meets a comical penguin lady who talks about a woman who mimics people and tells Yasu she can't escape. As he reaches the next floor, he starts hearing someone playing an instrument which seems to be the biwa the farmer told him about. Yasu meets Biwaki trying to chase him down but easily evades her. After going into the next elevator, he is on the final floor where he escapes a maze-

Early History

Kusonoki Masashige was born in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and was a famous and skilled samurai. He later met a woman and the two got married years later, giving life to a daughter they named Hirosa Masashige. One day, he found out that four beasts were rampaging across the earth. He set on a journey to seal all four beasts, leaving his beloved family behind.

For ten days the beasts raged against their gilded cage, and for ten nights he fought against our people's plight. The earth shook and the oceans burned, as he fought for weeks his back unturned. He sealed Control to the east, where she was trapped in a cage, unable to feast. Jealousy was sent to the bottom of the sea, part of a forgotten legacy. Rage was trapped in his strongest cage, seething with wrath and counting his days. And Rebirth was forced deep into the Earth, endlessly watching the world in reverse.

Kintoru, the beast of Control, later kidnaps Kusonoki's daughter. Kusonoki makes a deal with Kintoru in order to set his daughter free, but he was tricked by Kintoru's illusion, bringing him under her control along with the entire Masashige lineage, including his daughter who was also cursed by Kintoru.

This also brought the whole family under her curse, resulting in many unexpected twists and dark endings for nearly every single family member, except for Yasu. Yasu eventually slays Kintoru and frees Kusonoki, along with everyone else that was affected by The Beast of Control's unduly harsh curse.

-of Kaito. She divorced Kaito and left the family in debt. She is an unknown/unseen and irrelevant character.

Hirosa (Shaku) Masashige

Hirosa Masashige is the daughter of Kusonoki who was also deceived by Kintoru, a few years after her father was cursed. She was ill and was turned into a doll by Kintoru near the hospital where she was treated. Futaomote then found the doll and gave it to Hiachi who named the doll, Shaku. The doll was Hiachi's only friend and she stayed by Hiachi's side until Kintoru took control of them after Hiachi took off her seal. She was freed in the end along with the others.

Shizu Masashige

Shizu Masashige was a sculptor who made her living out of making statues and had anger issues. She became a puppet of Kintoru, but was freed in the end.

Yasu Masashige

Yasu Masashige is the son of Keiko and Daku and is the main character and protagonist of Control's Book. He started the journey to find his lost friends and defeat Kintoru. He is the main character seen in all four chapters of the first book. He is also the youngest member of the family who was not cursed by Kintoru

-Hanzu who is seen in the forest alongside her grandmother. Most of her backstory is unknown, but it has been confirmed that she was the first owner of Tokito and she may have died through some sort of food poisoning.

Keiko Masashige

Keiko Masashige is the mother of Yasu and the wife of Daku. She is also the protagonist of The Witch Trials. She became a puppet of Kintoru when she and Daku went to a parent-teacher conference, which was just a setup to trick them. She has been freed from Kintoru’s control and can live happily with her family.

Kuriko Masashige

Kuriko Masashige is a handicapped girl who was the friend and cousin of "Hana," and the adoptive daughter/biological niece of Megumi. She became a puppet of Kintoru due to her desperation to meet her missing friend again, but was tricked regardless. She was freed in the end along with her cousin/friend and her adoptive mother.

Kusonoki Masashige

Kusonoki Masashige is the father of Hirosa Masashige. He is also the main ancestor of Yasu, Keiko, and the rest of the Masashige family. He was the sealer of the four beasts, and was a samurai who was very skilled and respected, until he was deceived by Kintoru, which led to the curse of the whole bloodline. He was freed by Yasu who he then gave his blessed blade to, for him to slay The Witch and lift the curse. Due to Kintoru's death, he is now living happily in the afterlife.

Megumi Masashige

Megumi Masashige is a servant at the Imperial Palace who can stretch her neck to extreme lengths. She became a puppet of Kintoru, however she was freed later on. She is the adoptive mother/aunt of Kuriko.

Mihari Masashige

Mihari Masashige is a slit-mouthed girl, who is the elder sister of Hana, also known as Biwaki, and the daughter of Kaito who she called “Pa”. She was also the cousin of Kuriko. She became a puppet of Kintoru due to the cursed biwa and like the others, she was freed in the end.

Niko Masashige

Niko Masashige is the mother of Biwaki & Mihari and the-

Biwaki Masashige

Biwaki Masashige or Hana (In Mimic: Origins) was a young girl who lived with her father, Kaito, and her sister, Mihari. She was also the friend and cousin of Kuriko. She and her sister were brought under the control of Kintoru because of a cursed biwa that her father brought home. However, they were freed in the end after Kintoru's death.

Daku Masashige

Daku Masashige is the father of Yasu and the husband of Keiko. He was cursed due to a parent-teacher conference in Yasu's old high school, which was just a setup of her plan. He has been freed from Kintoru’s control and can live happily with his family. He became a part of the family after marrying Keiko Masashige.

Futaba Masashige

Futaba Masashige is the mother of Hiachi, who had an impulsive disorder. She became a puppet of Kintoru due to a deal that Kintoru made for Futaomote to become normal. However, it was a trick and she was instead turned into a monster. She was freed later on and lived happily with her daughter in the afterlife.

Hanzu Masashige

Hanzu Masashige is the grandmother of Kazeko, and is seen in the forest alongside her granddaughter. She is a fleshbag, and it is currently unknown as to what happened to her.

Hiachi Masashige

Hiachi Masashige is a young girl, the first monster Yasu encountered in The Mimic, and the daughter of Futaba. She became a puppet of Kintoru as the witch befriended Hiachi, then asked her to take off her paper seal in order to trick her, making her a puppet shortly after. She was freed in the end and can live happily with her mother in the afterlife.

Kaito Masashige

Kaito Masashige is the father of Biwaki and Mihari, and was cursed by helping Kintoru. She gave him a reward for helping her, which was a biwa. He played this biwa with both of his daughters, but was then cursed by Kintoru and he fell under her control. He was then freed along with his daughters in the end.

Kazeko Masashige

Kazeko Masashige is a young girl and the granddaughter of-

ROMANIZED Masashige Kazoku Masashige Ichizoku

KANJI 正成家族 正成一族

KANA まさしげかぞく まさしげいちぞく

ENGLISH The Masashige Family The Masashige Clan

ALIASES & TITLES ALIASES My Puppets (by Kintoru) My Collection (by Kintoru) Cursed Family My ancestors (by Yasu) Monsters Puppets The Dead Puppets Family Dead Family The Cursed Bloodline BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SPECIES Human (Normal family members) Monsters (Cursed family members; formerly) DATE OF BIRTH Started around the Azuchi-Momoyama period, has continued throughout the 2000s in the present STATUS Deceased (Majority) Alive (Yasu, Keiko, Daku) CAUSE OF DEATH Cursed by Kintoru RELATIONSHIPS RELATIVES Biwaki Masashige † Daku Masashige Futaba (Futaomote) Masashige † Hanzu Masashige † Hiachi Masashige † Kaito Masashige † Kazeko Masashige † Keiko Masashige Kuriko Masashige † Kusonoki Masashige † Megumi Masashige † Mihari Masashige † Niko Masashige † Hirosa (Shaku) Masashige † Shizu Masashige † Yasu Masashige CULTURE LANGUAGES English Japanese COUNTRY Japan NATIONALITY Japanese RELIGION Shinto/Buddhism. The Masashige Family (正まさ成まさ家か族ぞく, Masashige Kazoku; 正まさ成まさ一いち族ぞく, Masashige Ichizoku) is a clan comprising of members who are the main characters of Control's Book, descending from Kusonoki Masashige and other family members throughout the ancestral bloodline. Members of The Masashige Family are burdened with a curse due to Kusonoki making a deal with Kintoru to set his daughter free. However, one of the family members turned out unaffected by the curse yet and started a journey to find his lost group of friends, in which he encounters his accursed ancestors who were controlled by Kintoru, and was trapped in her twisted dimension. Yasu eventually had to fight against the beast itself.

Yasu Masashige

Yasu is Keiko's son. She is shown to be a very loving mother to him, an example would be when she would sing him a lullaby every night when he was little. Even while being cursed by Kintoru, she made sure to warn him about her, showing that she never forgot about him. She also never tried to attack him, showing that she had enough willpower as to not hurt him.

Status: Positive

Daku Masashige

Daku is Keiko's husband. At some point in time, they met, got married and had a son named Yasu. They are shown to be loving and caring for one another.

Status: Positive

Kusonoki Masashige

Kusonoki is Keiko's direct descendant. Though they never interacted with each other, they could be on good terms spiritually.

Status: Neutral

Enemies Kintoru

Keiko thought that Kintoru was a normal lady when they first interacted until she realized that she was cursed by her. She didn't knew that Kintoru was a dangerous being, especially once Daku was taken and Yasu was pursued.

Status: Negative

ROMANIZED Masashige Keiko KANJI 正成慶子 KANA まさしげけいこ ENGLISH Keiko Masashige ALIASES & TITLES ALIASES Mom/Mother (by Yasu) Halloween prop (by Yasu) Mrs. Masashige Daku's wife BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION GENDER Female AGE Accursed: 2 y.o (2019-2021) (Freed) Chronological: 59 y.o. (2024) The Witch Trials: 25 y.o. (1990) DATE OF BIRTH 1965 [Shōwa Period] STATUS Alive (Good/Canonical ending) Cursed (Bad ending) RELATIONSHIPS RELATIVES Kusonoki Masashige (Main ancestor) Daku Masashige (Husband) Yasu Masashige (Son) Other puppets (Ancestors/Relatives) RELATIONSHIP/MARITAL STATUS Married (to Daku) CULTURE LANGUAGES English Japanese COUNTRY Japan NATIONALITY Japanese RELIGION Shinto/Buddhism