Abusive Parents/Visual Novels

• Ah, Tsukihime, what form of angst don't you have. One of the characters is the seemingly cheerful and carefree maid Kohaku. Spending her childhood locked in a room and being raped daily by her master, Shiki's adoptive father Makihisa Tohno, and doing so to protect her twin sister Hisui from being raped as well, made her a literal Emotionless Girl: she put on on a horrible cheery mask to hide her (lack of) feelings (while Hisui became a melancholic Shrinking Violet who feigned emotionlessnessas a consequence), and in some routes of the game, she plots to kill every member of the Tohno Family as revenge.
  • Some? Just because you never see the effects in the other routes doesn't mean she wasn't doing it. As a VN, it makes the most sense to assume that everything's exactly the same in all the routes except for those things which are changed by the player's choices.
    • Things aren't exactly the same in all the routes, though. The Near Side and Far Side routes seem to be almost completely separate, as shown by the differences displayed by SHIKI. In the Near Side routes he is the vampire Roa reincarnated and does not seem to have a psychic link with Shiki, where in the Far Side routes he is evil/crazy because of the Tohno inversion impulse and has a mind link with Shiki. Not to mention he looks completely different in the two scenarios.
• Also, Fate Stay Night has Sakura Matou, who has a very similar backstory to Kohaku. While Zouken subjects her "only" to Training From Hell and the Matou crest worms, her stepbrother Shinji rapes her repeteadly and Zouken does nothing to stop him.
  • Her adoptive uncle Kariya Matou was a victim of the same sort of Training From Hell via the crest worms, partially because the VERY evil patriarch of the Matou family Zouken liked to watch him suffer.
• Jigoro Hakamichi, Shizune and Hideaki's father, of Katawa Shoujo. He not only frequently insults his children, Shizune's friends and the student council, but also has refused to learn sign language to speak with his deaf daughter, and has tried for 12 years to get Shizune to learn how to speak, unwilling to accept that she is unable to do so.
• Fate:Grand Order has Olga Marie Animusphere being so neglected by her father, Maisbury, that it goes into this.
  • Ophelia Phramsole's Magus parents didn't beat her, as far as one knows, but they pushed their high standards on her so much that the poor woman developed an extremely indecisive personality and hated Sundays because she'd have to spend them with her family.
  • Kirschtaria Wodime's father was incredibly jealous of his son's talents, and ultimately tried to get him killed. And almost succeeded at it.
• Kara no Shoujo had Shinji's parents and Yaginuma's father.
• While really more of an Abusive Uncle, Teppei Hojo from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni definitely fits this trope. He beats Satoko and forces her to do chores for him, threatening to burn down her beloved brother's room if she doesn't comply. It's revealed later on that he's also a pimp, and is engaged in a fraud scheme with one of his working girls (Rina Mamiya) to scam half a million yen out of Rena's father. Teppei's fate changes in each of the three arcs he appears in, and none of them are pretty. He is murdered by Keiichi in Tatarigoroshi-hen; murdered by Rena in Tsumihoroboshi-hen; murdered by Rena, Keiichi, and Shion (all together) in Tsukiotoshi-hen; and arrested by Child Services in Minagoroshi-hen.
  • Though she is rarely mentioned, Satoko's aunt Tamae behaved in a similar manner. It didn't end well for her.
  • Also Onryu Sonozaki was an abusive mother to her daughter Akane (though they made amends in private eventually) and now is an abusive grandmother to Akane's twin girls, especially to Shion. Planned on strangling Shion before her first bath because twins are considered a bad omen in the clan, discarded her by shipping her off to boarding school, and later decides to torture her just for being being with a boy from a family she hates and friendly to other two outsiders through forcing her to rip her finger nails off like she once did to Akane. (And both Akane and her husband cannot do anything about it: they're Yakuza, and Oryu's authority is absolute.). It comes as no surprise that Shion hates her (anything that reminds her of Onryu is a Berserk Button as seen in the cancelled Reality Breaking chapter). When Shion snaps in the Cotton Drifting and Eye Opening chapters, Onryu becomes her first victim. Best Grandmom ever.
• Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow
  • Cyril aka Cerberus's parents pressured and verbally abused their son, who was gifted with Psychic Powers, into using said skills for their benefit even when the boy clearly didn't want to and only desired her love.
  • Mashiro's Parental Substitute and first sword instructor, was a Yandere for the guy's Missing Mom and raised him as a sort-of Replacement Goldfish. The guy did not know that, and when he found out as a teenager he understandably ran away as soon as he could.