Alrena Rouche is a ghost and the main antagonist of The House 2. She was the daughter of rich couple Mille & Mary Rouche.
Prior to The House 2[]
Alrena was born in October 08, 1947 and was the daughter of Mille and Mary Rouche. She had been born physically deformed and mentally disabled, though the parents decided they would be unable to raise her. In what they considered an act of mercy, the parents killed their child by feeding her poison. Her body was locked away inside a safe and was to never be opened, the parents deciding on her year of birth as the code.
In 1964, a year after her parents adopted a new daughter, she began haunting the house as a spirit. Though she was vengeful towards her parents for killing and replacing her, she was friendly towards Nicole and would regularly interact with her. She would watch over Nicole and play games like Hide-and-Seek with her, while Nicole enjoyed her company and was completely indifferent to Alrena being a ghost.
The family started noticing Nicole interacting with Alrena and Alrena began showing up in Nicole's pictures. The Housemaid mentions hearing sounds of laughter, crying and footsteps around the house and considers resigning.
The household became plagued with nightmares until in 1965, the Rouche family went insane and killed both Nicole and the Housemaid. They later committed suicide, Mille hanging himself in The Bathroom and Mary hanging herself in The Working Room. Unfortunately, their spirits also became trapped in the house with Alrena, and the house was eventually left and abandoned due to rumors of it being haunted.
In The House 2[]
Alrena does not make a physical appearance for a majority of the game, as she is only seen in pictures and mentioned in notes. In The Bedroom, a pair of silhouettes can be seen together, likely belonging to Nicole and Alrena in reference to their friendship. When the player opens the safe in The Safe Room, Alrena will crawl out as an adult woman in a white dress with black hair. She holds her hands in front of her face before suddenly screaming hysterically, implying she may have killed the player.
Trivia[]
- Alrena has a fake Facebook profile, which ends with a screamer just like the other games in the House series.
- Although she was murdered as an infant and was born deformed, her ghost in the final scene is mature and lacks any previous deformities.
- This implies that she has aged as a spirit into what she may have grown up to look like while alive. This adds a level of tragedy to her death as she may have grown out of her flaws, thus negating the reason for her murder.
- This form may also have been used simply to interact with Nicole, as it may have been more appealing than her original appearance.
- At the end of the game, if the player were to be wearing headphones during the final cut-scene where Alrena crawls out of the safe and disappears, one can hear footsteps that will move in surround sound audio, giving the illusion that Alrena is slowly circling around the player and is now behind them.
- This also explains why there are bloody hand-prints on the wall leading off-screen to the right.