While rich in legend and hearsay, my knowledge is lack for the insight I crave."
- This article is about the character from Amnesia: Justine. For the character from Amnesia: Rebirth, see Sergeant Fournier. For the character from Amnesia: The Bunker, see M. Fournier.
“Whoever you are, if you can help me, I would be much obliged.
”Victor Fournier
Doctor Victor Fournier is the first hostage encountered in the Cabinet of Perturbation in Amnesia: Justine. He is voiced by American voice actor Jon St. John.[2]
Information[]
History[]
Dr. Victor Fournier was French psychiatric doctor, otherwise known as an alienist, he was considered an expert of the human psyche.[1] Fournier was a friend to Monsieur Florbelle, a fellow psychiatrist and colleague.[3] The doctor was familiar to the Monsieur's daughter Justine, who saw him as a friendly gentleman, however one who has become "frail of mind" and puts on an impressive act to distract people from the fact that he's now old and absentminded.[3]
Fournier is mentioned in a note found one cell over to the left, in a letter written by Mssr. Aloïs Racine's father, Lucien Racine, to Inspector Felix Marot.[1] The letter states that the doctor will visit Marot and that he has the authority to legally declare Justine as "mentally unstable" so that she can be locked up.[1] This is the most probable reason Justine captured him.
Gameplay[]
Fournier is seen when player enters the first main room of the game, a large prison block. Fournier is in one of the cells in the block. Justine can choose to either kill him or let him live. If Justine kills Fournier by pulling the lever next to his cell multiple times, a spike will lower into Fournier's midsection, killing him, but will lower a ladder down from the ceiling that's needed to progress through the tests.
If Justine chooses to let Fournier live, she will have to stack boxes and use a part of a broken ladder to reach the aforementioned area in the ceiling, requiring more effort. The test here, is to see if the player has enough patience to stack objects and boxes to reach the trapdoor in the ceiling without ending Victor's life. Victor is "saved" if he is left where he is without pulling the lever that can potentially kill him, given the choice the player makes.
Should Fournier have been saved, he begs Justine to let him and hs fellow hostages out to no avail.
Quotes[]
- Main article: Victor Fournier/Dialogue
- "Whoever you are, if you could help me, I would be much obliged."
- "Please! Please, be reasonable. You don't have to do this."
- "Justine, I know it is you! I promise I'll get you help, if you just open the door!"
Trivia[]
- Victor shares the model used by a torture victim in Daniel's "paint the man, cut the lines" flashback.
- "Fournier" is a common French surname, more or less meaning "baker."
- The last name of Fournier maybe inspired by Dr Jean Alfred Fournier who described "Fournier's Gangrene, a gruesome and deadly affliction that rots away the patient's genitalia.
- Victor has two special lines that are spoken if he alone is alive (Father David & Inspector Marot are dead), the second line indicates he somehow knows it is Justine because she chose to not save the latter two prisoners. David is also the only one to have an extra line if only he is alive.
- An unremoved glitch in the game means the lever to the impaler can be pulled multiple times resulting in Fournier being killed over and over again.
- A character with the same surname, Sergeant Fournier, is mentioned in graffiti found in the The Desert Path, in the second chapter of Amnesia: Rebirth. The graffiti states that "Sgt. Fournier is a fornicator." Sgt. Fournier was noted for despising his captain and the Berber locals, the Kel Hanan. The man was killed later by a ballista bolt when Al-Mamaru Fort was overrun during 1929.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A New Plan (Justine)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Amnesia: Justine – English credits: "Jon St. John as Victor"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dr. Fournier (Justine)
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