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"I've never paid much notice to what the living call me. But there's one name the fallen ones use when I speak to them. I find it most accurate... the Queen of Maggots."
— The Queen of Maggots, Chapter 1
"The Queen of Maggots"
Queen
Sex Female
Residence "House in the Woods"
Appears in Chapter(s) 1, 4 (cameo), and 7
More info
Voiced by Margaret Cowen


The Queen of Maggots is the first character that Susan encounters in The Cat Lady. The old woman returns her to life with the gift of immortality, and instructs her to find and kill five "Parasites".

Appearance[]

The Queen of Maggots appears as an old woman with a German or Austrian accent. She holds a dead rose in one of her hands. She has white hair, tied in a bun and wrinkled skin, denoting an advanced age. In the first encounter, she appears on the porch of a house in the alternate dimension Susan enters after Susan's induced death after taking an overdose of sleeping medication.

Character[]

The Queen of Maggots has some amount of power where she grants Susan resurrection and immortality in order for Susan to destroy the Parasites. Susan has the option to ask the Queen of Maggots if she is Death, God or the Devil, which eventually prompts the name "Queen of Maggots." The Queen of Maggots appears to be either allied with an entity called the Crow (which Susan also encounters in the course of her journey through the post-death alternate dimension) or to be the Crow herself - they both have baritone voices and similar accents.

Later on in the game, it is revealed that the Queen of Maggots is "the sickness that has been with [Susan] for so long," suggesting that she is a representation of Susan's depression. However, the Queen's ability to essentially force immortality on Susan and her desire to cleanse the Parasites suggests that she is a rather more powerful entity - perhaps a representation of Thanatos or death drive that Sigmund Freud proposed was present in every human being. However, she said that "We are both dead. I'm not death" to Susan, possible she was once alive.

Trivia[]

  • The Queen of Maggots is technically an artifact character from Downfall—the first game ever produced by Harvester Games—as a character of the same name, The Queen of Maggots. While the character has several similarities, The Queen of Maggots takes a much more prominent role in the Devil Came Through Here trilogy (The Cat Lady, Downfall (2016), Lorelai) than in the original Downfall, and is much more human and natural in appearance than her Downfall counterpart. The Queen of Maggots from Downfall is also, much like the rest of Downfall, not canon to the Devil Came Through Here trilogy.
  • She seems to like, or comprehend, women more than men.
  • According to Michalski, he didn't know who she really was, but according to him it was clear as the story went on that she was Susan's illness.
  • In Downfall Remake, she claims to Agnes that her real name was "Lorelai". It is unknown whether she was telling the truth.
    • In Lorelai, Jimmy The Traveller tells Lorelai that her name is one of many used by The Queen of Maggots. Later, The Queen of Maggots does confirm this information to Lorelai.
  • Rem said once that "if depression were to take on a human form, as in The Cat Lady, it would become both your best friend and your worst enemy." in reference to The Queen of Maggots.
  • The Queen of Maggots was possibly inspired by the Greek goddess Persephone. Persephone is a goddess with a lot of opposing sides. She wasn't always a Cthonic deity, she became one when she gone to the underworld. In the myth of Demeter and Persephone, Demeter actually says Persephone had died when she entered the underworld (hence Queen of Maggot's saying "we are both dead"). Persephone had her own kingdom in realm of the dead which was covered with plants (just like Queen of Maggots). Unlike many other gods of death, she had power to revive the dead and send them back to the earth. She had strong connections with immortality, reincarnation, and resurrection. (just like Queen of Maggots). All cthonic gods, including Persephone were gloomy and depressive. (Game portrayed Queen of Maggots as an embodiment of depression).

Quotes[]

"Welcome to my house, Susan Ashworth"
— Queen of Maggots, welcoming Susan. Chapter 1
"I come when there's something to take... but I never give anything back."
— Queen of Maggots, explaining her name. Chapter 1
"YOU FOOL!!! YOU DAMNED ARROGANT FOOL!"
— Queen of Maggots, upset at Susan for taking her own route. Chapter 1
"I brushed your hair every night you cried yourself to sleep."
— Queen of Maggots, revealing her true nature. Chapter 7

Gallery[]

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List of chapters
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Prologue Chapter 1
"House in the Woods"
Chapter 2
"Second First Breath"
Chapter 3
"River"
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Chapter 4
"Bullet for Susan"
Chapter 5
"Some Flowers Never Bend Towards the Sun"
Chapter 6
"The Legend of Cat Widow"
Chapter 7
"Don't Feed the Troll"
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