Madeline

(Madeline) Age 19+ (Chapter 6) Aliases Ms. Madeline (Chapter 3) Strawberry (Chapter 9) Status Alive Family Mother (unnamed) Father (unnamed) Sibling (unnamed) Friends Theo Badeline (Chapter 6) Old Woman (Chapter 6) Mr. Oshiro (Epilogue, presumed) Alex (Theo's sister), girlfriend (Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain) Other Green-haired person (Ex, presumed) (Chapter 2) Celeste Information Relationship Family Mother (unnamed) Father (unnamed) Sibling (unnamed) Friends Theo Badeline (Chapter 6) Old Woman (Chapter 6) Mr. Oshiro (Epilogue, presumed) Alex (Theo's sister), girlfriend (Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain) Other Green-haired person (Ex, presumed) (Chapter 2) Appearances First Appearance Other Appearances 100M (Celeste Classic) Prologue (Celeste)

Towerfall (Crossover) See all characters Madeline is the main protagonist of Celeste, Celeste Classic, and Celeste 64.

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Madeline is a short, young Canadian woman with pale skin, brown eyes, and long thick burnt orange hair with one wayward curl. Throughout the events of the game, she wears an aqua snow jacket, dark grey pants, black and dark grey walking boots, and her brown climbing backpack equipped with a red sleeping mat and plastic water bottle. In her official art, she is shown reaching for a strawberry with wings. According to Celeste's developers, Madeline is transgender.[1]

In Celeste Classic, Madeline appears considerably shorter, as well as having more cartoony proportions. In this version, she also has long red hair, pale skin, dark blue eyes, what is presumably a green snow jacket based on her design in the remake, and white boots.

Personality Madeline is shown to be strong-willed and determined yet heavily conflicted, climbing the mountain to spite herself. Her courage is noted by other characters, some even berating her and calling her foolish, warning her to turn back before she gets herself hurt. Still, she presses on, determined to drive out unwanted thoughts from her own mind and take control of her life even when it's pointless and harmful.

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Advertisement Trivia Madeline does have voice lines in the game, albeit hidden ones. These occur in the track "In the Mirror" and are performed by the game's composer, Lena Raine. If the lines are reversed, they reveal a spoken lament about Madeline's condition and how she is scared by the thought processes resulting from her anxiety. Then you hear the sound of sobbing after she finishes speaking. It is neither confirmed nor denied that this is actually Madeline herself. Similarly, there is a hidden audio file within the game's code titled 'wow_so_secret.wav' which, if accessed, plays a rendition of Never Gonna Give You Up using Madeline's voice filter. Madeline's mother has blue hair and her father has white hair. Madeline's hair actually turns these colors once she has depleted and as she regains her dash respectively. As revealed in Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, Madeline and Alex (Theo's sister) are dating, after being hooked up by Theo. In the game files, Madeline is sometimes referred to 'Maddy'. The Community also sometimes uses 'Maddy' instead of Madeline (an Example of this is MaddyCrown, a Celeste mod)

(Badeline) Age Unknown[1] Aliases Badeline Part of You (to Madeline) Part of Me (by Madeline) Part of Madeline (as a generalization of these nicknames) Demon Doppelgänger (by Theo) Ms. Positivity (by Madeline) Madelevil (Old Name)[2] Sex Female Status Unknown

Badeline

Badeline looks just like Madeline, but has long purple hair, pale skin, and red eyes. She wears a purple jacket with black pants and boots. In Theo's eyes, she's a "goth version of Madeline". In game, she generally appears levitating in the air surrounded by a purple aura. In her official art she has no aura, but is still depicted levitating in the air.

Personality In Chapter 2, Badeline describes herself as Madeline's "pragmatic" side. Madeline states in Chapter 6 that she is paranoid, controlling, and cruel. Badeline is sarcastic and her anger is often provoked during the storyline before she and Madeline make amends. This is seen at the beginning of Chapter 6, when Madeline is nearing the top of the mountain.

Badeline seems to be the insecure part of Madeline, embodying, among other things, her fears: loneliness, inadequacy, failure, hopelessness, etc. She thinks in a more logical way rather than following her heart like Madeline is seen to do throughout the story. Badeline hates being incriminated, and this provokes her anger in the Mirror temple. She believes in dealing with her problems beforehand rather than making mistakes and sorting them out later. Badeline is a powerful magical entity, capable of breaking through multiple feet of hard rock when in an excited or depressed state.