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Blood-Stained Letter
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is when you have a letter or note that for some reason has gotten blood on it. Letters and notes tell much about the person who wrote them, but when there's one that has splotches or splatters of blood, you know there's another story being told as well. Since most paper is white, the presence of blood stands out on it, and people, when they see blood in unusual places, have a tendency to start assuming the worst. In Mystery Fiction settings, these often become clues, sometimes a Dying Clue, for the Great Detective who finds them. Journals and books can also count, as well as newspapers and documents. In some cases, the blood makes it difficult or impossible to make out what the letter actually says. In tales centering on espionage, captured documents being stained with blood presents the audience with a grisly clue as to how the documents were acquired. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Couldn't Find a Pen for situations when a message is actually written in blood, which may overlap with this, as well as Apocalyptic Log and That Was the Last Entry. Examples |
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Dropped link to ApocalypticLog: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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The Monuments Men. Stoltz looking at the blood-splattered letter Jeffries is narrating in voiceover cues the audience to his death just before we see it happen. | |
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World of Warcraft. In one of the questlines around Darkshire, pre-Cataclsym, you find a torn journal page that is described as being barely legible through thick blood. The updated version yields a book called "The Legend of Stalvan", noting the final blood-stained page has been added. | |
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FBI: Most Wanted: In "Caesar", the team recovers a murdered stool pigeon's phone. The last photo he took shows a hand drawn map. On seeing the map is bloodstained, Jesse realises that this map was on the table when the gang was massacred and was taken when by the killer when they left: creating the void on the table. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: A letter smeared with blood is found near the corpse of a woman whose family was captured and killed by Falmer, and who chose to die by her own hand rather than be taken by them. Another one is found in the Dragonborn add-on near the body of a man who was killed in his lover's house. |
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This trope is warped in ways not thought possible in Paper Mario: Color Splash. Apparently someone came up with the very macabre idea to mail a colorless Toad to Princess Peach, which she proceeds to show Mario. For those of you who don't get it, the "letter" is the folded-up, colorless paper Toad, who is essentially treated as dead. And Mario reacts to the letter the same way the regular person would react to a mailed corpse. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In A Civil Campaign, Ekaterin notices that the seal of Miles' letter of apology to her was marked with the most old-fashioned and traditional smear of red-brown. The color of blood. Then she realizes that it is his blood. In Cryoburn, Miles seals his letter of instruction to the Barrayaran Consulate with a thumbprint in his own blood, knowing that the Consulate will test it and so confirm that the letter really is from him. |
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Overwatch: The Hanamura map has in its shrine a wall scroll with a sword slice in one corner with specks of blood around it, left over from the brothers' confrontation. | |
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The Stargate SG-1 episode "2010" has an Ominous Message from the Future appear through the gate, written in Jack O'Neill's handwriting, and stained with blood, warning them not to go to a certain planet. They're smart enough to do as it says, especially after they tested the blood and determined it was O'Neill's, thus proving the letter to be a Note to Self. | |
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Presentable Liberty: As you sit in a jail cell reading letters from various people, a woman named Charlotte starts sending some telling a grim tale of what's happening beyond those walls, her final one a splotched with blood, with only the words, "I'm sorry". | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The account of the failed attempt to recolonise Khazad-Dum, discovered by Gandalf and the Fellowship when navigating through Moria, is explicitly described as hacked, chopped, partially burnt, and smeared with long-spilt dried blood. Especially on the final page, carrying only the scrawled runes They Are Coming! | |
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Exoptable Money: You receive one after Madame Sinclaire kills your cat. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption, a side quest involves a man telling you to get a deed to a house in the middle of nowhere from another guy. If you kill the guy and get the deed, the first guy will notice the blood on the deed, gets angry because he didn't want that guy dead, and pays you only $5 (as opposed to $200 if you paid the man). | |
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The entirety of the narration of Innocence Lost is in the form of a letter from Sarah Kinney wrote to her daughter and creation, X-23, in the event she was unable to tell her about her origins herself. Unfortunately, that's exactly what ended up happening. Even worse, because the letter was so badly fouled by Sarah's blood, Laura was never able to read it herself until she was given the copy Sarah had the foresight to also send to Wolverine just in case. | |
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Rune Factory 4: In Obsidian Manor there's a blood-stained diary that simply says, "It hurts", over and over again. | |
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In the second book of the Ology Series, Emily Sands has just discovered the tomb of Osiris when she is approached by a priestess of Isis who warns her not to enter the tomb. She does not heed the priestess' warning, and this is the last entry in Egyptology written by Sands. The publisher's note at the end states that the remaining pages were covered in weird stains. | |
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There is one that drops from mobs in the Dead Hills in EverQuest which urges you to leave the country and never come back. | |
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Saving Private Ryan: Caparzo tries to give Fish a letter to his father after he's shot, but he wants it recopied so his family won't see the bloodstains on the original. | |
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Bring Me the Horizon's "It Was Written in Blood", namely a suicide note. | |
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Unsounded: When Elka writes the capitol for reinforcements the message responding to her gets cut off with a splatter, when the woman responding gets killed. Then her killer claims it was an ink spill and tells Elka to retreat. | |
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One of the Team Fortress 2 hidden pages shows a blood-stained newspaper article about Mann Co. inventing 'Ro-Bots'. In standard in-universe Australian behaviour, the 'Ro-Bots' are designed for violent purposes only, implying the origin of the bloodstain. | |
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The Avengers: After Coulson is killed, Nick Fury presents his beloved collection of Captain America collector's cards to the team, still wet with his blood. After the team has gone to face Loki, Agent Hill says the cards were in his locker, at which point Fury admits he needed something to motivate them. | |
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In the lower levels of Bastion Keep in Diablo III you can find the body of a soldier with a bloody letter from his wife telling about their son growing up and how she's praying for his safety. | |
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Ace Attorney: Ace Attorney Investigations. A directive card has a bloodstain on it, showing that the order was carried out. Gyakuten Kenji 2. Case 4 features a bloody letter due to it being on the body when it was impaled. |
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In Gravity Falls, the page in a mystical journal on how to summon the demon Bill Cipher is covered in blood, with the words "Do not summon at all costs" written directly in blood. | |
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