Josephine

Overview

Enemy

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Josephine
Title	Wuthering Heights Butler
Other Names
Korean	조세핀
General Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Butler
Affiliations	Wuthering Heights
Relations	Mr. Earnshaw (Former master) Mrs. Earnshaw (Former master, "Mistress") Hindley (Former Master)
First Appearance	Canto VI: The Heartbreaking
Status	Deceased

“	Ooh... Mistress... I, Josephine, knew that you would one day return to our side.	”
–Josephine, Canto VI: The Heartbreaking

Josephine is the Chief Butler of Wuthering Heights and is a minor antagonist in Canto VI: The Heartbreaking. She is contracted to the mansion itself, rather than any particular person.

Appearance

Josephine has the appearance of an old woman with long, knotted black graying hair pushed out of her face. She wears a monocle on her right eye, and dons a brown suit customary of Wuthering Heights Butlers, with a ribbon around her neck and the cameo of a woman's face (presumably Mrs. Earnshaw) on her left lapel. On her left arm, she carries a white cloth.

Personality

Josephine is an erratic woman who frequently falls into fits of what seems to be madness, ranting about the late mistress of the house as if she were still present. Despite this, she is fiercely loyal and looks down upon those around her, talking down to Nelly and frequently outwardly disagreeing with the current state of the manor, seeing it as a former shadow of itself.

Story

Prior to Limbus Company

At some point in her life, Josephine was hired by Mrs. Earnshaw to work as her primary Butler. Following the mistress' death, she would remain in service to the estate, though consistently believing herself to be hearing the voice of the late lady.

Through Catherine's journal, it would be known that Josephine knew of the fact of Wuthering Heights being built upon an ancient river- something that the contractors believed should not have been done. Because of this, both Cathy and Josephine believed to see the deceased lady's ghost wandering the halls.

Canto VI: The Heartbreaking

Josephine was present for the reading of Catherine's will, lamenting the state of the manor to the late mistress, Catherine's mother. Nelly would tell the Sinners that she is not worth paying any mind, and after a short refutation from the Chief Butler, she would idly stand by during the will reading.

Following the first strike of lightning, she was transported along with several butlers to a corridor within the manor, the same that Hindley, Dead Rabbits Syndicate members, and the Sinners were sent to. Blaming the situation on Hindley, she began to plan his death, which is interrupted by the Sinners fighting Josephine and her Butlers. Following their defeat, the Butlers then retreated into the manor.

Later, during the confrontation with Erlking Heathcliff in the heart of the manor's basement, Josephine would arrive in the midst of the situation, panicking. During her stressing, she would be impaled by Erlking Heathcliff, who would bring her into his Wild Hunt.

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Trivia

• Josephine is based on Joseph from Wuthering Heights.
  • Similarly to Josephine, Joseph is a insufferably zealous man who has served Wuthering Heights his entire life, remaining tied to the house even after Hindley Earnshaw's death.
  • Josephine's dialogue uses the older English pronoun "ye" and truncates "of" as "o'"; this is presumably intended to reflect Joseph's Yorkshire dialect in Wuthering Heights.
• The Echoes of the Manor Echoes of the Manor- 50% chance to gain +1 Sinking Count when gaining Sinking Potency or Count from Skill or Coin effects
  - Units with SP: Change Panic Type to Echoes of the Manor. When this unit Panics, inflict 2 Echoes of the Manor to 2 random other allies of this unit
  - Units without SP: -10% chance to flip Heads
  - Reduce by 1 at Turn End
  - This effect is not cumulative; inflicting it will replace the current value with the inflicted value
  ※ Apply the 'Units without SP' conditional to certain enemies that have SP but can't change their Panic Types. debuff inflicted by Wuthering Heights Chief Butler Outis and Wuthering Heights Butler Faust references Josephine's supposed ability to hear the voice of the former mistress of the house, Mrs. Earnshaw.
• The "ancient river" mentioned to have been known by Josephine may be a reference to the river first mentioned in Lobotomy Corporation, one of the supposed sources of Abnormalities. Both are said to be buried within the world and are considered dangerous due to their possible supernatural effects.