#🤔|theories
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He is superb old
I like to think he was born sometime around before Paradise as a parrot, then was made into a hybrid by Mr Owl
I see 👀 I was starting to think harvey is somewhat immortal
wouldn't surprise me.
Lol you're probably right, birds don't live that long
parrots live quite the long lives, however.
the lifespan of an african grey (currently the best bet we have on Harvey as a species) is 60 years!
but harvey is called the "messenger" of the lake aren't they.
I assume there's more to them then we currently know,
as there is with so many things.
LMAO
and longest living parrot is Kakapo, tho they're endangered species now
poor kakapos:(
they live Over 95 years
"you're not a hero, you're just a messenger"
sad Harvey noises
Yeah this makes a lot of sense. Don't want to overthink it though cos harvey is just a messenger and that's all he can be in the Rusty lake universe
I'm no longer curious:) thanks for answering my Q
For now we only k ow he is messenger
Maybe ij future games we gonna see more about it
Harvey appears during the third plague in paradise (1796) and in the las level of season (1981), so harvey its at least 185 years old , as laura said , it all started with harveys egg
Is Harvey now dead? Because that's what I saw in the wiki page of RL.
I think he was transformed? So the forms don't exist seperately
ye true
Didn't know there was a human form harvey?
Male in hotel and female in other games could probably mean that original harvey procreated and had a baby bird that became another harvey and so on. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe that's the true purpose of a harvey - to always have a messenger for the lake
But who knows 😊😊 harvey is my favourite character hehe
Harvey is simply
trans.
Like
I think it's a really bad take to call harvey male bc of their suit.
Then why would someone state that harvey is male and/ female?
How does that person know for sure ?
Doesn't this information need to be looked at by the developers to be published on wiki?
No
the wiki is public domain
I could go on and edit it right now if I so desired.
Thats dangerous 👀
That's why you're not allowed to source wikipedia when writing academic papers 😉
@covert wyvern yeah I just go straight to the journal haha, cos sometimes wiki doesn't have references so you can't expect everything to be true
Exactly.
Wikipedia, or any wiki is editable by the public which is fine especially the regular wikipedia is heavily monitored
But we need to find the source of this information lol, what were they thinking about male and female harvey 😅
Oh. Weird. But oh well...
Harvey is probs just chilling in this lake :)
That is something we can all agree on.
William has also reincarnated as a woman & no one has any problem here
William has also reincarnated as a woman & no one has any problem here
@azure bay AHAHAH I LOVE YOU DUDE
dale's grandpa somehow had the receipe of the gin tonic
what do u guys think about this?
he must have been related to theatre somehow
so is it another proof that he is mr. crow?
yeah but dale didn't seem to realize him in theatre and case 23 and a lot of games
so wtf
The grandpa is not mr crow
May I point you to the fact that they had a theatre poster in their living room
It's highly likely the family just liked visiting that theatre
but why did he have the gin tonic receipe
^
whyyy
but they look so familiar and the voices are almost the same
Yes, because these games were made in flash player and the assets were reused
lmao
The grandpa is not mr crow
My bad then. Apologise
yeah we really don't know anything
in the mill?
The old woman in the mill is clearly related to the mr crow
Surely she wouldn't be locked away for her grandsons birthday party!
we don't know anything lol
You're right! We don't.
That's why this channel is called theories and not facts ;)
I always thought that grandpa is crow
I just don't think we don't have enough definitive evidence to make that conclusion.
they keep teasing us lol
but the only reason mr rabbit killed their family that makes sense is mr crow is grandpa
if not why
but again mr owl knows about the death of his family
if it was mr crow why did he left him dead?
sry english is not my mother tongue
It is fine.
My theory is that Mr owl wanted dale to become a detective
So he had a hybrid murder his family
why Dale is the chosen one is simply impossible to know
He just was.
Maybe it's the name
Vandermeer > from the lake.
that makes sense
but mr owl killed mr rabbit
why did mr rabbit listen to him then?
Im still curious about note that rabbit leaves
Mr Rabbit has always been the odd Eilander
The question if Mr. Crow is grandpa Vandermeer is not that simple. Despite me not supporting this connection I admit that I can see a way around it. Yeah, they both have similar facial features. This is a fundamental point. There are 2 ways to percieve it: either they are indeed the same person or it's just a reused sprite.
Let me review all pros & cons from every side:
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RL have released whole 9 games during 1 year: Seasons, The Lake, Arles, Harvey's Box, Case 23, The Mill, Hotel, Birthday & Theatre have all come out in 2015 (later their pace will slow down). This could be the main reason to reuse an asset...
BUT!!!
I don't really know for how long RL team was working on these games before 2015 + they can be known for their attantion to details (if you have examples of this kind of attention, plz add them). -
Mr Crow & grandpa share not only the face but also the eyes (brown on black) as well as younger Aldous from Roots...
BUT!!!
Aldous in The Cave has blue on white eyes. That could mean something or just be an example of RL team's inconsistency (e.g. not so much attention to details). -
If grandpa is Crow, his wounds would not be lethal. He would stay alife & Dale would not be an orphan...
BUT!!!
If Dale was the chosen one long before he was born Crow could fake his own death to make Dale become who he was ment to be, even though this plan might be too difficult to work. -
Even though Crow & grandpa share the face, they have also some small differences: grandpa has a brighter skin tone & a bit more hair than Aldous has in any other game (even in a younger form), plus he wears glasses...
BUT!!!
All of that could be to mask himself because of BUT #3.
-
Grandpa somehow possessed the very same pistol from Hotel. That pistol was Rabbit's original goal in Birthday. It would be way easier for grandpa to get it if he were Mr. Crow...
BUT!!!
He could also obtain the pistol in some different way, even though it's less probable. He could buy it somewhere or it could the real Crow & Owl to give him that because of, once-again, the long-working plan to prepare Dale. -
The gintonic recipe could be a connection between grandpa & the bartender...
BUT!!!
As we can see on the poster, RL Theatre is not open yet it's just "coming soon" (& that message could be just a teaser of the new game back in 2015). Plus the recipe was not there originally. -
If Crow lives after a headshot the scar could have been left. In Case 23 we see a cube picture on Crow's forhead. It could be that scar...
BUT!!!
Do the azura even have scars? Plus, the cube is more likely to be a tatoo connected to the lake cult. -
Dale does not recognise Aldous as his grandpa & refers to him as an old crow...
BUT!!!
He could supress his traumatic memories & just not remember his own grandpa. Or we could have a retcon here. -
The reused & slightly changed asset could really mean a different person...
BUT!!!
I remember myself not believing that Mr. Rabbits from Hotel & Birthday were the all same untill Paradox. It also looked for me just like an asset reuse, but here we go.
damn... I'm posting that on Reddit
I dont think grandpa is mr crow or aldous
Aldous=Mr. Crow
Yeah I know forgot to use the "/"
But yeah I don't think grandpa is aldous
I think grandpa is just a normal bartender for RL theatre which could explain why he had the gin & tonic recipe
me neiser, but honestly, we don't have anything better than opinions or couterable evidences
We have very low info bout this
There is no evidence that links grandpa with aldous. The gun is probably just reused. I mean they reuse the match box all the time
They reuse a lot of objects to keep everything simple and to the point
There is no evidence that links grandpa with aldous. The gun is probably just reused. I mean they reuse the match box all the time
@vague imp there are, but we don't have STRONG evidence
Yup
Exactly
The only games I haven't played is paradox chapter 2 and the white door
So I need to play those, maybe I missed some information there if there is any
But hopefully they will make more games that show connections between characters
For sure they will
concerning birthday, ch2 confirms Mr. Rabbit being all the same
nothing new on grandpa+Aldous in TWD even though there is a theatre scene
I'm still gonna play it though. I hope its good :)
TWD is good as a story
some did not like the gameplay
personally, i'm ok with this game
This isnt really about theories anymore but I'd like to mention that like, RL is a point and click game, TWD was that too but it played way smoother thanmost CE games imo lmao
I very liked that 2 screen gameplay in TWD
best ambience out of all games
True
ambience is shaped by many factors, including but not limited to the music, the split-screen, minimalistic design (especially in the clock) and sound effects.
Now I really wanna play TWD 😍😍
The question if Mr. Crow is grandpa Vandermeer is not that simple. Despite me not supporting this connection I admit that I can see a way around it. Yeah, they both have similar facial features. This is a fundamental point. There are 2 ways to percieve it: either they are indeed the same person or it's just a reused sprite.
Let me review all pros & cons from every side:
RL have released whole 9 games during 1 year: Seasons, The Lake, Arles, Harvey's Box, Case 23, The Mill, Hotel, Birthday & Theatre have all come out in 2015 (later their pace will slow down). This could be the main reason to reuse an asset...
BUT!!!
I don't really know for how long RL team was working on these games before 2015 + they can be known for their attantion to details (if you have examples of this kind of attention, plz add them).Mr Crow & grandpa share not only the face but also the eyes (brown on black) as well as younger Aldous from Roots...
BUT!!!
Aldous in The Cave has blue on white eyes. That could mean something or just be an example of RL team's inconsistency (e.g. not so much attention to details).If grandpa is Crow, his wounds would not be lethal. He would stay alife & Dale would not be an orphan...
BUT!!!
If Dale was the chosen one long before he was born Crow could fake his own death to make Dale become who he was ment to be, even though this plan might be too difficult to work.Even though Crow & grandpa share the face, they have also some small differences: grandpa has a brighter skin tone & a bit more hair than Aldous has in any other game (even in a younger form), plus he wears glasses...
BUT!!!
All of that could be to mask himself because of BUT #3.
@azure bay A little point I want to add to this list. Birthday is one of Dale's memories, extracted and floating around the Lake. We have enough evidences to say the Lake/ Mr Owl crew can modify those memories (for example Seasons, Theatre).
So: probably Dale's parents were really killed, but Mr Crow could not be his grandpa
What we see in the memories doesn't totally match with the reality
I also agree about the inconsistence of the devs: there are points on many games which prove they weren't so careful about links between games
They also contradictes themselves in the same game (Roots)
Some dates didn't match(they fixed them with an update), but in the "Graves" level (where you take bones from the graveyards of the Vanderbooms), their deaths' dates don't match with the corresponding levels' ones
So, my advice about theorising is: don't focus too much on some details which could mislead you
@astral frost the very thing that's changed in birthday is presence of Mr. Owl's present
And, the possibility to change the past
New evidences to convince @azure bay that Robert Hill was arrested by Dale because of Laura's death 🙂
In TWD and Paradox we see a book called "Robert Hill: false accusation"
So Bob was really suspected of Laura's murder
Answer 1 question. What makes you think that Dale was one to accuse? Cause it's the only point I disagree on Bob's relations with a law.
The only detective in the PD?
The only detective in the PD?
@azure bay Nope
But Dale was working on that case
No mention to other police men
There could probably be someone else to work in that
he was literally in the Theatre with Bob
We do see Theatre only in someone's memories
yeah, twice, in two different people's memories
Dale's memories are altered. Bob may or may not remember Dale there
But they both remember the same scene, even if in an altered way
this is enough to consider them real I think
Let me collect my thoughts
Dale did not show any interest to clues concerning Bob during Case 23 . He was literally talking & probably thinking only about the lake.
Bob could be arrested for interrogation either by the normal procedures or another detective who was working with that version or even by Mr. Owl's will to give Dale a challenge that would bring him to them.
Theatre itself is too surreal for us to be sure on it from Dale's perspective.
In TWD game the event seems to be hyped enough to attract Dale & Bob separately.
& remember that Bob is also under Owl's control. TWD could also alter the memories to make Dale appear/disappear/appear in a different way. Or the different versions of that dream could belong to different timelines. We can't really know what's real there.
I disagree
"Case 23" itself is a title which refers to Dale's investigation
I'm not saying Dale wasn't interested in searching infos about RL
I only think he started to study Laura's death case, and then he gradually became interested in the Lake
I think Bob was in the PD because he was suspected
Only for this reason
We can't really know what's real there.
You can literally apply that idea to anything, not just Rusty Lake.
If theories are to go anywhere, we have to establish first principles
Mr Owl was intersted in Bob for his memories about Laura(it is confirmed in TWD)
So I disagree with the "challenge for Dale" theory
Ch1 ended with Dale finding all the info to start searching the lake: the contest, the weird phone call, the archive. In ch2 opening he said that could not think about anything else byt the lake. In Dale's mind in Paradox is Bob's book that could mean that Dale understands Bob's innocence on sub-concsious level.
You can literally apply that idea to anything, not just Rusty Lake.
If theories are to go anywhere, we have to establish first principles
@hollow comet the case with Theatre is probably the vaguest. There is no reason to completely believe it.
So how would you justify Bob's memories about Dale?
Which ones?
In those memories Dale is clearly following Bob all around
I don't remember the names
Ok
The Lost Soul I think
The police car was following him
And Dale and the policeman were in the club too
The Lady: a friendly random guy who asks for the light, but seems to be aware of Bob's loss
Lost Soul: policeman may or may not follow Bob in the car, but Dale-the-deer is always there & seems to belong the place. (I believe that it's Dale's future god form)
PD: a random guy he does not recognise watches him though the window. After Bob's corruption he directly asks his memories
Like he knows that he directly needs them
Mr Owl was intersted in Bob for his memories about Laura(it is confirmed in TWD)
@astral frost I don't understand what should it counter
I've updated 1st scene
@astral frost I don't understand what should it counter
@azure bay I mean, Bob's role in Mr Owl's plan is using(maybe extracting) his memories about Laura
There's no mention about challenges for Dale
And we would have had them
Mr Owl talked with Mr Crow about Dale
But without talking about any challenge
I think you're complicating the thing man
"If Dale finds cubes" is in fact a challenge. It just may or may not be organised by Owl
Otherwise it would be "when he finds cubes"
@azure bay I mean, Bob's role in Mr Owl's plan is using(maybe extracting) his memories about Laura
@astral frost Bob was involved since Sarah's arrival to his appartment. It was a matter of time how soon he'd get to the institute so I don't really see a problem with using him for other schemes if there is no risk to really lose him
The question if Mr. Crow is grandpa Vandermeer is not that simple. Despite me not supporting this connection I admit that I can see a way around it. Yeah, they both have similar facial features. This is a fundamental point. There are 2 ways to percieve it: either they are indeed the same person or it's just a reused sprite.
Let me review all pros & cons from every side:
RL have released whole 9 games during 1 year: Seasons, The Lake, Arles, Harvey's Box, Case 23, The Mill, Hotel, Birthday & Theatre have all come out in 2015 (later their pace will slow down). This could be the main reason to reuse an asset...
BUT!!!
I don't really know for how long RL team was working on these games before 2015 + they can be known for their attantion to details (if you have examples of this kind of attention, plz add them).Mr Crow & grandpa share not only the face but also the eyes (brown on black) as well as younger Aldous from Roots...
BUT!!!
Aldous in The Cave has blue on white eyes. That could mean something or just be an example of RL team's inconsistency (e.g. not so much attention to details).If grandpa is Crow, his wounds would not be lethal. He would stay alife & Dale would not be an orphan...
BUT!!!
If Dale was the chosen one long before he was born Crow could fake his own death to make Dale become who he was ment to be, even though this plan might be too difficult to work.Even though Crow & grandpa share the face, they have also some small differences: grandpa has a brighter skin tone & a bit more hair than Aldous has in any other game (even in a younger form), plus he wears glasses...
BUT!!!
All of that could be to mask himself because of BUT #3.
@azure bay i think this is the reason why when grandpa died, he was still rocking the chair lol
and another thing in the mind of the past in paradox we didn't see grandpa probably because he is mr. crow and in the present mind :)
@ivory girder you can read my thoughts on this one on reddit
Which ending in Paradox is likely canon? The one where Dale sacrifices to the lake or the secret ending where he gets a golden cube and takes the elevator?
Likely all of them? lmao.
I mean most of things are happening over and over again but like I think maybe the secret ending can be continued to other game...
I think for all we know Dales story is over.
@spice rampart What 🌝??????
he either dies or becomes enlightened.
I think it's up to fan's interpretation to which ending is more canon
The one where Mr Crow give him the cube in the Cave game
I feel like I'm an idiot playing these games. I never know about the secret things 😑😑😑😑
that totally depends
I think all endings to paradox are different timelines
but that's me.
Or we lost Dale forever. The Lake consumed him and Laura survives with good memories
The ending to cave just happens to align with the one where dale enlightens
F in chat for Dale in this case
Then we would never get to know about the golden cube if he is dead or he would become a hybrid animal like Mr Owl
does it even matter? All of Paradox happened in his mind, and he got the golden cube anyway
I'm more interested in how long he was stuck inside the loop
pretty much like Groundhog Day
Maybe for 50 years😂
O right ye that's a different ball game
And about Mr Owl wasn't he supposed to be immortal then how he is like on the verge of dying.
The elixir probably wasn't perfect.
Oh
the elixir gives longevity, not immortality
Well then Mr Crow is also gonna die after some decades I guess
yes, eventually.
he did need the elixir in Cave
or not,
likely unless he keeps drinking the potion lol?
who knows!
and he has also significantly aged in his human form
but then again the dog's still alive, it didn't get the potion for years, centuries even
And what about the dog of James?
and it's still in it's poop
maybe
ig it depends on how much 'hybrid powers' someone uses?
Presumably, Harvey was originally a parrot
parrots are way more intelligent than dogs so I like to think James's dog can't use his abilities in the same way Harvey can
I mean is Harvey still alive now?
I would hope so
but with multiple timelines it gets confusing
Paradox, though it technically shows the latest events in the timeline, isn't much credible
I mean I didn't even understand which ending was true because literally every ending is happening over and over again😂
lmao
if Laura killed Harvey in Fall 1971, then how does she show up in the Mill next year
I'm talking about Harvey
Oh you are talking about Harvey
bird shit on the window
Maybe she escaped
on one side the timeline is self consistent, Harvey still isn't dead after being killed; but on the other side, Laura reverses her corruption in Seasons but is still dead in the other games
there's gotta be multiple timelines
I mean it is also theorised that the one who called her in the seasons telling her that a CS is gonna kill her is Laura's future self
I thought that was Mr Crow?
He'd been calling Laura because he knew she was ||William|| and that's why she ||killed herself||
I don't know. It's just a theory.
Maybe Laura changing her past is the same way Dale changed his, only in memories but noy for real
He'd been calling Laura because he knew she was ||William|| and that's why she ||killed herself||
Wasn't she murdered that's why Dale came to investigate?
I don't think she was murdered
Maybe Laura changing her past is the same way Dale changed his, only in memories but noy for real
Yeah, maybe
It's known that she was mentally ill and on one post-it she wrote "I'm afraid I'll do something horrible"
I mean then why did even an investigation took place?🤔
she died and the body disappeared right in front of the detective
I think an investigation was natural

And they blamed Robert for making the body disappear.
it seems the accusation was for murder
Or maybe her Corrupted Soul kill her.Most likely that happened
very plausible
it's shown in the cave that laura commited suicide
oh right!
Oh yes I forgot.
Hey, if you consider the family tree, Laura is not only Rose's daughter, but also Frank's and Leonard's....
and everybody elses
and everybody elses
@polar warren Yeah, but if you look at the family tree, she is connected directly only to the three of them.
yea ig
And they were also the ones that were "sacrificed" still alive
Maybe Laura changing her past is the same way Dale changed his, only in memories but noy for real
@zenith meteor definitely
and wrapped in the roots
but there's black line that only connects to Rose, and not Leo and Frank
Everyone else gave dead parts, but those three gave sacrifices while still alive
the tree might look like that, to sorta present that she is not only last one, but also made from "entire" family in a sense?
I think Frank and Leonard were just catalysts, since the broader objective was to "bring the branches together".
^^^
Do you think Frank and Leo died there?
then there's also the time pieces
no, I don't think they died
that's a quite interesting question
but there's not even a tint of evidence as to what happened to them
because some people say that they died
and some say, they didn't
If the next game will really be about Laura's childhood, I hope we'll discover it
Cause they were like "uncles" for Laura
interestingly, when Rose appears in the secret ending of Samsara Room, she's still wearing her golden timepiece
then there's also the time pieces
@polar warren yeah, that confuses me. I mean, Rose dug up hers (probably from William's grave) but how didi Emma got one? Maybe Mr. Crow put it there and pretended that it was Emma?
maybe all three timepieces and their wearers are essential still?
Hey, I know it sounds crazy but, what if Laura grew really fast? Rose looks the same as when Laura was a baby
Totally unrelated: I was thinking about the "Everything you touch, you change". Does anyone has a theory aboute Bob and Dale becoming corrupted because they were "touched" by Laura?
Because the phrase gives the impression that is not only aboute seasons
I mean, like Damy said, it looks like the point of Arles was to show that anyone can become corrupted. If corruption really spreads through contact, then that just defeats the purpose of the Van Gogh arc.
Cool theory though
Cryptical sentence that one ahahah. Right know I can assume it refers to the fact that you can face your demons by reliving your memories, in order to escape from CS stage
Totally unrelated: I was thinking about the "Everything you touch, you change". Does anyone has a theory aboute Bob and Dale becoming corrupted because they were "touched" by Laura?
@zenith meteor I was talking about this
I think what "all that you touch you change" refers to the self-consistency principle not holding in the RL universe. If you go back in time and you mess with things, you also change your future, like Laura did.
But everything could be
I mean, like Damy said, it looks like the point of Arles was to show that anyone can become corrupted. If corruption really spreads through contact, then that just defeats the purpose of the Van Gogh arc.
@hollow comet I didnt mean only by contact. But because they got involved in her story in some way. Her existence affected thei lives. Maybe the Lake does the same, and Van Gogh got "touched" by the Lake instead of Laura
interesting
Reposting what I said in #🩸|general-chat
it remains an unexplained arc. There wasn't even a connection except a corrupted soul, until now, when the achievements were added. Entering Van Gogh's birth year in the door makes the Hotel appear in the window, indicating a more significant connection. I won't go further into theorizing here (wrong channel) but this can be a good topic of discussion.
Van Gogh does appear to have deeper connections with Lake
i dont know a lot of lore but isnt corruption caused by an imbalance in your brain?
Van Gogh does appear to have deeper connections with Lake
@hollow comet well, they did use his paintings for puzzles
Mr Owl said it happens when you extract the bad memories
that also happened with Bob
well, they did use his paintings for puzzles
@zenith meteor haha, I meant more of an in-universe connection
yeah if you take out your bad memories theres an imbalance
well, they did use his paintings for puzzles
I remember one in Case 23, in the chapel
like, first you take the good memories out, that doesn't have an effect. But they turn corrupted if you also remove the bad memories
there's two instances of this
or having too many?
Gotta drive my sister to the doctos, bbl
hope all goes well
Yeah, it just phisiotherapy
"Balance the substance of your past lives"(from Theatre)
"This substance of one of my past lives etc."(said by Mr Rabbit in Birthday)
"Face your demons"(from Cave)
"Balance the substance of your past lives"(from Theatre)
"This substance of one of my past lives etc."(said by Mr Rabbit in Birthday)
"Face your demons"(from Cave)
@astral frost this is probably related to the same point
Which is
Deal with your past and try to fix it, where it's necessary
Deal with your past and try to fix it, where it's necessary
@astral frost Just remembered Mr Owl said it to Dale lol
We've seen many CS faced their memories(aka, their past) in order to find a new balancing
That's my interpretation of CS stage
And I think it's almost correct
whats CS?
Corrupted Soul
thank you :)
😄
that makes sense, like with seasons
That's what happens also to Dale, Bob, Van Gogh, William
And what probably David Eilander/Mr Rabbit tried to do
Without success
Maybe Mr Rabbit is the first one we've never seen in the Naraka stage
When he was defeated he became a tree
like the fish (r.i.p.)
Ahahahahaa
Is there a place of the collected lore to read up on?
most events that happen in the games are well recorded in the wikia
Some of the fact are wrong tho, or filled with facts that may not be cannon so be carefull
Wiki is wrong and inaccurate in many points
I'm yet to come across major flaws, tbh
Actually Rusty Lake wiki simply contains walktroughs of the games and descriptions of their scenes in a way every player can see by playing them. There aren't many interesting theories/ threads over there, the few ones aren't well argued. So I think playing games and discussing with other people is more useful right now.
most events that happen in the games are well recorded in the wikia
that is why I said that; theorising can only happen in discussion.
maybe rose bought a whole kilometer of the cube fabric and now she had to use it all up
Yes^
hence a ton of cube dresses in all sizes and cube curtains
Has anyone ever tracked when the first cube like pattern was introduced to like the market lmao
Shoot, then I guess I gotta make tons of dresses for my future child
It is now your duty.
as someone who owns the original dress from paradox movie...
... sadly yeah 😔
I have a cube like shirt similar to Laura's dress pattern. Weird. Didn't think of it till now
I'm convinced it's the only clothing she owns
I'm convinced it's the only clothing she owns
not really
Has anyone ever tracked when the first cube like pattern was introduced to like the market lmao
Case 23 is the first time the cube pattern is clearly visible. The dress also shows up in Seasons but it's hard to make out if it's the same pattern.
So ig it's OG
In The White Door she wears something different
I think it was blue button up collar shirt, with brown skirt?
or was it beige?
Never existed
People in that universe don't have a lower lip
Lower lip be like:
The first time the dress appears is en roots in one of the last chapters , Rose wears it and according to young laura´s photo it was wore by her early on
In the order of release it appears in seasons
*release :)
doesnt she wear it in the white door
She doesn't wear the dress in the breakup
at the club when shes upside down
im not really sure what were talking about but thats the most recent time its shown up
She died in the dress*
Bobs last memory of laura, presumably, is what he saw on tv
Laura, in her dress, in a pool of blood
So it would make sense for her to show up like that in his memory
Either way; laura does in fact have one more clothing option! That's what we were discussing right.
O to answer your question: yes she wears it in twd
But she also wears another outfit.
Is the dress pattern that important?
We don't know! 😄
Colleagues! What do you think is connected with a certain magic, the power of the lake?
As we know, the Eilander family was obsessed with the lake, celebrated "lake day" and made sacrifices to him. Where do they get such motivation?
could be anything, the lake could have willed them into doing it, it could've been a family tradition for many many generations
The version with a family tradition is more believed
but that doesn't mean it's right 😉
Why, in the end, the lake enlightened the character who is on my ava, and not the Eilander family.
?
but that doesn't mean it's right 😉
@covert wyvern But this chat was also created for crazy theories)
Exactly.
We don't know why mr owl
maybe it was just luck, maybe it was coincidence maybe it was meant to be
although you could argue the entire eilander family was enlightened when you compare it to hotel.
Not luck for sure. Caroline described her son as the chosen one in her books.
although you could argue the entire eilander family was enlightened when you compare it to hotel.
@covert wyvern Based on this, we can assume that the lake reborn the Eilander family into anthropomorphic animals, preparing them to take into account the deaths at the hands of Harvey.
We will most likely be told about the appearance and essence of the lake in "CE: 20 000 ago"
How awkward it is to write theories when you're not a native English speaker😅
that is the only place we see her. There is a painting of a Lady of the Lake in Case 23, but that Lady is Caroline Eilander
But the hat is the one used by Miss Pheaseant to portray the Lady of the Lake in Hotel
Her dress also looks like a black version of Miss Pheasant
Aha
But i think Mary Vanderboom hat is green
Let me check
Yes, Mary's first hat is a similar color but not the design. The second hat has a bow but its different and the hat is green
OK So it's not Mary
that is the only place we see her. There is a painting of a Lady of the Lake in Case 23, but that Lady is Caroline Eilander
@zenith meteor can you show it?
The left one is the painting of the Lady of the Lake in Case 23, the right one is a portrait of Caroline in RL Paradise
Hum... Going by this logic what would the other things mean?
The hat is Mrs Pheasant
@honest osprey have in mind that there is strong evidence that Miss Pheasant is Caroline's daughter
Yes Ik
Strange
Why did the devs make this random character that makes the biggest headache I had about this series.
Strange
@honest osprey its actually not. RL is purposefully confusing and mysterious
I understood most other things
Why did the devs make this random character that makes the biggest headache I had about this series.
@honest osprey hahaha thats your personnal experience. For some people she is just there to make a puzzle
But we can theorize to our hearts content
Nothing is just there in this franchise
OK what if its Mary
But they have different hats because game development
Nothing is just there in this franchise
@honest osprey more or less. Keep in mind the way the games were made, sometimes a character is there just to make it interisting or eerie, and later they expand on it so not always their first appearance doesnt make much sense
But they have different hats because game development
@honest osprey could be, but then is a theory without evidence
I don't think the lady in Theatre is Caroline to begin with
If I remember right, Theater was released after Hotel, what makes that hat a clear reference to Miss Pheasant. And Roots came after Theater so they could have made the hat the same if they wanted to link them
her soul was fused with Jakob's
I don't think the lady in Theatre is Caroline to begin with
@hollow comet i dont think it too
She gets it in Lake, has in Case 23,in Paradise makes the Libra Corrupted Soul shadow(balance) show up, the shell in Samsara Room changes the Soul
I didnt understant, could you explain?
her soul was fused with Jakob's
@hollow comet a still think she could be reincarnated as Rose, bu alas, I have no evidence besides their very similar faces
Laura gets the shell in Lake, has it in Case 23 in her fish bowl, in Paradise a shell powder makes a Libra shadow appear, which shows balance, and in SR is one of the items that changes William before he becomes Laura
Laura gets the shell in Lake, has it in Case 23 in her fish bowl, in Paradise a shell powder makes a Libra shadow appear, which shows balance, and in SR is one of the items that changes William before he becomes Laura
@honest osprey shells and shrimps are RL mark, i dont think we ahould read too much in them

Shells appear in every game, with other charcters too
Shrimps yes, but shells????????
Yeah
@zenith meteor quite interesting. I think if that's true, Mr Crow and Mr Owl would've shown more interest in her rather than Laura, because presumably, making more elixir is the #1 priority
Also, they were in the original SR, (thats is not RL universe) they kept all the elements of the original, changing just enough to connecr to RL
For example in original SR, the body in the clock was a bald man, that looked nothing like William
@zenith meteor quite interesting. I think if that's true, Mr Crow and Mr Owl would've shown more interest in her rather than Laura, because presumably, making more elixir is the #1 priority
@hollow comet if she reincarnated by the normal process of the Samsara wheel they might not know
Bye
@honest osprey dont go, i like theorising xD
oh, they left
I think the lady of the lake IS somehow important, but her being Laura or Mary... Doesnt look like it is
Well, everyone has an unpopular theory they believe in, I just didnt want Poni to be sad/mad about it
Agree to disagree and all that jazz
if she reincarnated by the normal process of the Samsara wheel they might not know
I think I agree. However William also went through the Samsara cycle and the only reason (presumably) Mr Crow knew Laura was William is because he basically oversaw his rebirth, albeit without getting actively involved. But is there a way they can keep track of every rebirth? I don't think so
I think I agree. However William also went through the Samsara cycle and the only reason (presumably) Mr Crow knew Laura was William is because he basically oversaw his rebirth, albeit without getting actively involved. But is there a way they can keep track of every rebirth? I don't think so
@hollow comet especially if they dont know its happening 😆
true lol
About the Lake's powers: I think making sacrifices was needed in order to stop natural "disasters". In fact Caroline was burned alive and this prevented her memories sinking in the Lake (as it would have happened with a cage sacrifice, like the Jakob's one). So, without memories, the Lake revolts and causes disorders, such as the Plagues. In favour of this theory, when Jakob bring a memory to the Lake, a Plague disappears.
That's what I said.
Didn't see it
Srry
Oh you were talking about some days ago
Didn't remembere ahahah sorry
Nah nah is fine.
So I don't know if this belongs here, but I'd Harvey a girl or a boy or maybe both, but like we see them lay eggs in several games, I'm pretty sure male birds don't lay eggs. This could just be another weird thing, but does anyone have any thoughts
*is
Maybe Harvey can change genders as he/she wishes its a magic bird lmao
About the Lake's powers: I think making sacrifices was needed in order to stop natural "disasters". In fact Caroline was burned alive and this prevented her memories sinking in the Lake (as it would have happened with a cage sacrifice, like the Jakob's one). So, without memories, the Lake revolts and causes disorders, such as the Plagues. In favour of this theory, when Jakob bring a memory to the Lake, a Plague disappears.
@astral frost great theory
Maybe Harvey can change genders as he/she wishes its a magic bird lmao
@vague imp It seems to me everything is the same as with Mr. Owl. Conventionally, he is a man and wears men's clothes, but in fact he is a mixture of Carolina Eilander and Jacob Eilander. That is, proceeding from the fact that he is enlightened, he has no gender at all, since he has become higher than the human division into gendars. It's the same with Harvey. He is enlightened and freed from such a natural "condition" as the genors. That would explain a lot.
I wish i could do that lol..
Clothing literally says nothing about someones gender uwu owo
😆
no i mean..XD i wish i could shapeshift..
Clothing literally says nothing about someones gender uwu owo
@covert wyvern Now yes. But not in the 19th or 20th century.
I suppose there's a point there 
ye someone did mention harvey may have switched genders when they became a parrot again
could be something in there, who knows.
I suppose there's a point there :grubthink:
@covert wyvern I agree
who knows but i see it as metaphor for you know
I really like the idea of Harvey being more powerful than we currently know but there's no base for that lol
||being trans|| maybe that's my personal view tho
in this server we support trans parrots.
haha that's good do hear
I really like the idea of Harvey being more powerful than we currently know but there's no base for that lol
@covert wyvern One is there. At first, it was believed that the most senior character is Jacob Eilander. But in pzhradays we can also see Harvey if we bring a flower to the lake in one of the executions. We can assume that Harvey is some kind of entity, created by the lake itself. He is the "eyes" and "hands" of the lake, because he can see what is happening on the lake or outside the lake (for example, in Laura's house), as well as do some important actions (for example, save Emma's note for Frank).
Sorry for my English. I'm not a native speaker of this language)
that's fair, it's coherent enough, and if anything this is practice right 😉
your English seems fine to me ngl?
I suppose you're right. I just really like birds so im very biased towards Harvey, hahaha.
but ye! I do really like the idea that Harvey is just playing along with owls schemes for the lakes sake.
In my opinion the lake is likely just playing a grand chess game and even owl is but a small pawn.
your English seems fine to me ngl?
@vague imp Translator to help. I know English and study it, but I don't speak it fluently.
In my opinion the lake is likely just playing a grand chess game and even owl is but a small pawn.
@covert wyvern An owl is a queen in the hands of a chess master. The lake itself.
ahaha mayhaps owl is the queen on the chessboard, I have to admit we don't really have any evidence, maybe the eilanders figured out the lake had magical properties and settled there to study them, maybe the lake willed the eilanders to its will
ahaha mayhaps owl is the queen on the chessboard, I have to admit we don't really have any evidence, maybe the eilanders figured out the lake had magical properties and settled there to study them, maybe the lake willed the eilanders to its will
@covert wyvern As someone wrote above, Eilander is covered by a lake. Apparently a long time ago the first of the Eilander arrived on the island and faced the fact that if the lake was not sacrificed, it would curse him. So the day of the lake and the cult of 6 animals began.
I'm a huge fan of the lake. I love it for its amazing storyline. This can be understood by my ava and nickname. (Translated from Russian: Jacob Eilander)
Okay my dear lovers of rust in water. It's time for me to go, after that we'll write off and build even more country and brain-bearing theories about a rusty lake.
Has anyone watched Twin Peaks?
I'm watching it and I'm finding some similarities with RL
@astral frost I wanted to watch it too but I wasn't sure if it was good or not
Well, the games were originally inspired by twin peaks
The developers were inspired by twin peaks yeah
I haven't see it either but I know they have a detective named Dale and a dead woman named Laura
Laura Palmer I think? I know Bastille has a song by that name and apparently both Bastille and RL like the show
I kinda know the plot of twin peaks but I dont want to spoil it for edd
Its a bit hectic
i watched some of twin peaks but i got bored, i heard it turns supernatural? weird
Yeah I'm not willing to watch a TV series from the 90's :)
It becomes a bit dark. ||Has to do with drugs etc||
How much have they deviated from the series?
@sudden kraken At least the angry Albert was there. There was Detective Dale and the victim Laura.
There was a certain emphasis on owls
Well, and some spirit of mysticism and something incomprehensible.
please avoid pinging people offline // not part of the conversation
Sorry😅
Who do you think is the third founder of the Vanderboom clan? We know that William and Aldous had a brother, whose son, James, they forced to leave descendants and plant a seed.
I've always thought Mr Crow was James' father, though there's little evidence.
I agree, but I saw one theory
There are three symbols in the game. Raven, Tree and Deer. In the files of the game you can find an unused model called "Oscar", translated from Kelian "Loving deer"
If the raven and the tree represent Aldus and William, then the deer is possibly the third brother.
I do not argue. But I am only giving a theory. I am not suggesting that this can be true.
You decide
😉
By the way, some say that Aldus is Dale's grandfather.
As proof, they notice that he is the only one who remembers what happened before rewinding time. He looks a lot like Aldous from the mill in appearance and his voice is the same. But I think that this is not enough to make such hasty conclusions.
By the way, although there is no evidence, I think Jacob knew the father of Aldous and William. In theory, they were modern.
I know the proof, but ask yourself this;
if dale was related to the vanderbooms, Roots would be a very different game 😉
Grandpa could be not remembering what happened before time rollback but just the only one believing Dale
The fact we don't hear protagonists' voice does not necessarily signify that he is silent
TWD PD secret scene is a great example
Solidarity
It's just that I myself don't know why, in the community of my country on a rusty lake, everyone is already openly declaring that the crow is Dale's grandfather, and it seems to me that this is not right.
Many people of RL fandom often jump to conclusion
Don't worry ahahah
Btw I'm really convinced we've never obtain certain answer we're looking for, RL narration is obscure on purpose
This is for the best. We think it over ourselves.
Anyhow I agree with you, the fact Dale's grandpa and Mr Crow shared the same aspect isn't enough
👍
Btw TWD elaborated on Bob's story, who was an apparently flat character, an appearance
So maybe we'll get more infos also about Dale life
(or maybe not)
I am more interested in the lives of Aldous and William before enlightenment. After all, all we know before the enlightenment of Alduos is his birth date.
It's just that I myself don't know why, in the community of my country on a rusty lake, everyone is already openly declaring that the crow is Dale's grandfather, and it seems to me that this is not right.
@glossy isle I'm also a part of that community but I read the opposite opinion
Hmmm
At least in VK chat that was separated from the main one
I beg you) But for the future, you cannot ping those who are not online)
Sry. A bad habit
No problems. It's just that modders can scold for this
If it's not a problem particularly for you, you can mention that in your profile notes
As I did
(only you can see your notes)
Damn
yes
& how to mark then?
you can add notes to other people
like im allowed to ping this person
stuff like that.
We need a way to mark permission for others by default
That's not what I mean
I'd like to express that I'm ok with everyone pinging me once & for all
there's no way to do that, and that's okay.
I simply don't scold people pinging you.
just add 'ping me whenever' to your nick 
that would also work, lmao.
Nah, not sure if I want the same for other chats
But
Yeah, I think It's the only way
@covert wyvern how many people who also doesn't mind being pinged do you know ?
On this server
A few? I dont see how that is relevant what so ever.
Sometimes I just can't help myself continuing some older discussions
It would be great for me to know who is ready to answer such a call
make sure to keep notes, then.
I think most of the regulars in theories don't mind a ping/
May I say something? More like ask something.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed but...
Is there any proof or reason why Dale was considered a "chosen one" in being Mr Owl's successor?
Yes. Mister Owl is counting on Dale to deal with the dark souls at the bottom of the lake. Moreover, Dale will take the elevator to the hotel, where he seems to have the most important dialogue in his life, a dialogue with Mr. Owl.
i thought mr crow was james' uncle, because of the level in roots
May I say something? More like ask something.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed but...
Is there any proof or reason why Dale was considered a "chosen one" in being Mr Owl's successor?
Particularly Mr Owl's dialogues in Paradox Ch 2 ("The Lake needs a new ruler")
and also in the snow globe in Birthday
"only then can you become what you're meant to be"
The prophecy in the Hotel ending also shows Dale reaching the hotel
i thought mr crow was james' uncle, because of the level in roots
@alpine atlas I agree here. James has more reasons to arrive from far away & to have no questions about Aldous' disappearance if they are not that realated
my reasoning was that the level is called "the uncle"
which lever are you talking about?
no it was about William
really?
i had assumed it was about aldous because the instructions given to james clearly couldnt be from william
that's right but 'the uncle' level has nothing to do with the instructions to James
these sacrifice formula are presumably written by the alchemists
& the one who is profiting from them is William himself
everyone else seems ignorant about all of these until William directly talks to Rose
they could both be "the uncle" i guess
honsense. It would be plural then
Cool, ummm. So Mr Owl put Dale through trauma in order for his bad memories to be extracted and thus fed to the lake?
I'm not sure whether Dale was formed by Owl from a scratch
It seems more realistic to pick up a traumatised fela & to fix him
what about what happened in birthday though
what are you interested in?
mr owl sent mr rabbit to kill his family
I think no
I think Rabbit has his own Dale-like journey
to fix his past & become something bigger
what connection does mr rabbit have to dale other than mr owl
tbh i havent played hotel in a while, you might be right idk
the sprite is the same
the letter lying near the empty chest tells "this substance of my past life"
after the rollback the pistol is inside
so it's highly probable to be taken by Rabbit
@azure bay thanks for clearing it up
you're welcome
but remember to question everything you see here. Including mine
I encourage you to do a research of your own
Yes. Mister Owl is counting on Dale to deal with the dark souls at the bottom of the lake. Moreover, Dale will take the elevator to the hotel, where he seems to have the most important dialogue in his life, a dialogue with Mr. Owl.
Notice that even Jakob made this journey a long time ago. In 10th plague, he descended into the Lake (we also see the Room under the Lake, which is the one in Cave) and went back to the surface: only then he became Mr Owl.
And Dale has made the same journey
Down and then up
Excellent observation. This room is also the basement of the hotel, so yes. Dale is likely to become the new "ruler of the lake"
Wonder what animal Dale will be, hopefully a chicken 🐔
I thought deer was already taken by the father eilander?
Mhm, right, you'd say that.
Why would they recycle animals? That's going to confuse a lot of people if they dont show the process right
I thought deer was already taken by the father eilander?
@vague imp there is no reason for only 1 deer to exist
/tiryogni/ is one of the stages of the wheel so they all gonna turn into animals at some point
as we can see in Paradox.
@covert wyvern right
only if you amass enough bad karma right 😉
I don't think it's got to do with karma, tbh
I don't think it's got to do with karma, tbh
@hollow comet not literally I think
I mean if it's really based on the concept of karma, then in that mythology, karma only decides how long someone spends in a stage, they go through all of them regardless
wack.
@hollow comet it seems that the elixir is somehow enough to boost your karma & a mistake while memory extraction to ruin it
So bad memories feed the lake?
Taken back where? To the person that gave the memories?
you just need to replay everything & mark all these details
I dont have the time rn :( or for the next year or so.
Also, these games give me some serious nightmares
sympathize with you
If anyone has the time to write these theories down (everything we discussed here) I'd hiiiighly appreciate it 🙌
I'm afraid it's not possible. Chat is not a good place for publishing. Reddit is a bit better but still everything tends to be lost & forgotten
I'm planning to make a virtual mind map
but idk when exactly
& not sure which service to choose
If you do plan on making this mind map that can really break things down and add possible theories - will you let me know. It will help a lot to keep up
@vague imp please avoid using retarded, thank you.
Oh yes, I am so sorry
It slipped my tongue
Apologies everyone - I hope I didn't offend anybody
I think karma is not involved right now. If so, characters should do something "good" to accumulate great karma and reborn. But, for example, Mr Rabbit tries to "balance the substance of one of his past lives" with homicides (that's definitely not a good action ahahaha).
Btw, we know some processes in the transformations between the stages
For example, we know how those work:
-Human->CS
-CS->Human
-Human->DemiGod
-Human->God
-DemiGod-CS
We still don't know, for example, how the transformation DemiGod->Animal works (that's what happened to Harvey)
he summoned a beam of light
he summoned a beam of light
Also Dale summoned a beam when he was teleported to the Chapel
But this isn't enough to understand how it worked
This is the magic of the lake)
Also Dale summoned a beam when he was teleported to the Chapel
He did use the cubes for that. Maybe thats why he could do it, even being human?
i think dales animal could be a fish
Dale is more likely to be a deer, as we can already see
@astral frost (he is ok with me pinging him) 'Demi-god -> animal' was performed by Mr. Owl. Then in Paradox ch2 he also teases his own future form - a fish.
I assume, by default azura tend to be reborn as a lesser form. Maybe exclusively as an animal, maybe as a human as well. To be reborn as a CS they usually need some anti-help, I assume
Anti help?
Help but towards something detrimental I suppose.
Right
@astral frost (he is ok with me pinging him) 'Demi-god -> animal' was performed by Mr. Owl. Then in Paradox ch2 he also teases his own future form - a fish.
I assume, by default azura tend to be reborn as a lesser form. Maybe exclusively as an animal, maybe as a human as well. To be reborn as a CS they usually need some anti-help, I assume
@azure bay That's very likely right now
I've just realised all deaths we see in the games are not natural
So maybe dying in a natural way let you reborn into a different stage than a CS
Another point: Laura doesn't istantly reborn into a CS. She remains a Human (even if dead), until Mr Crow extracts her memories
What do you think about that? Isn't death enough to transform you in a CS?
im gonna use "anti help" now when some doesn't help that's been my TED talk
@astral frost death is not enough for some cases. Actually, it's neither necessary, if we take Bob's example.
Talking about Laura, I admit being confused. If I'd try to explain it I'd have talked either about a plot hole or some yet unknown rule concerning rebirths
I want to insert a word. Let's think logically this: the existence of a hotel on the lake itself and the area itself near the lake. we all saw a picture that clearly depicts a plan of the lake, a mill hotel House of Vanderboom and the like, but this This territory cannot be isolated after all, technically, where should the settlement be? we use the data, we clearly know that there is a cigar factory on the lake and that there probably is some newspaper production, remember the roots? So this is relatively proof of the fact that there was a production means there were workers and they had a settlement. Now let's expand the frames. Dale is probably from this settlement, and his father or grandfather The workers of those industries, and through the window in idleness we see houses. These strings are connected, probably the Vanderboom house and the hotel To be relatively not far away, after all, let's think about it, Mr. Rabbit was somewhere before December 1939? Probably hiding from phyllin in the forests. And then, upon learning of his plans, he intervened and came and killed Dale's family It is not a fact that he was shot by a crow, which may be Dale's grandfather, but in idle time he is killed like a crow. So he achieved enlightenment. Nevertheless, if there is a town or even the village of Dale, then there must be a second major city. Now I will explain and prove. During the First World War, volunteers were taken to Front by train. Leonard fought and rode a motorcycle. We draw a conclusion Either they lived not far from the front line, or he was traveling to a distant city, where there is a train, most likely there was a white door and there Bob was born and lived. Indeed, in those dachas where Dale lived did not It looks like there were trains. That means we are childing the map in our head. Not far from the lake there is a small town, let's call it by the first letter of the name of Dale town D.
And then, far enough away there is a city B, Named by the same logic after Bob. There is most likely a connection between them, because it was in city B that there was a police academy Dale and there he lived. The lake is located in a deep and dense forest, where you just can't get there, not everyone gets there, but there is one snag in the newspaper from the roots they wrote about the lake and there is even Photo of the well. So the reporter got there because the Vanderbooms couldn't just print the newspaper. And again, it is possible for a person to get there, hence a bad question, and not who has ever thought, and what Is this a house on the lake? Whose hut is this? Maybe a man's foot has stepped there since the Eilenders died?
I think I proved the existence of cities near the lake and gave the probability that on Could get a random chebovek
Questions?
I hope it was not some kind of porridge and you will understand me
I will read this after I finish my classes 🙌🏼
My colleague. He has already deduced many theories about the rusty lake.
It's actually a good idea. It is not clear where these missing buildings are.
In addition to this, in Paradox we see 2 maps of a possible layout of the RL world (with various names and buildings we already know). Idk if they are objective representations or just part of a puzzle.
Probably it's a more metaphoric representation
Would love to go for a dip in the corrupted sea though
Mood.
I would very much like to go myself to a rusty lake
I belive that aint rusty lake but a map of Dale's mind
Dale's
Lmao
Lev, sorry but I struggle to understand your flow of thoughts. Too much information for my perception. Could you please repeat everything but devided into smaller parts?
Just asking,are all the hybrid animals in Rusty Lake Hotel the members of the Eilender who by chance were enlighten?
yep, all the guests (5 of them) and Mr Owl were Eilanders. Hotel also featured other hybrids (Mr Crow, Mr Bat, Mr Toad) who weren't.
the Eilanders' enlightenment was by no means a thing of chance
they did it through ||ritual sacrifice||
I think you meant the 5 guests and Mr. Owl
yeah, sorry
I guess, Mr. Owl is different nevertheless
It seems that he'd die without Caroline's intervention
I find it strange how Mr. Toad is only found in Hotel, when all the other characters have at least some connection to the other games. (The guests being the Eilanders, Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl being main characters, and Mr. Bat being in The Cave and in a secret ending of ||Paradox||, and Harvey being in basically every game.) I feel like he might show up again in a later game, it just feels so weird how he is exclusive to this game and barely gets mentioned. In such an interconnected series where everything is connected to something else, there's just this one character who isn't.
I'm not sure that Mr. Bat & the animal bat inside The Cave are connected
But still I think I could explain Mr. Toad's exclusiveness
He is just a hotel employee. Probably even less trusted than Mr. Bat.
& Mr. Bat in Paradox indicates that Dale is going to the hotel as it was forecasted in the Hotel game
I assumed they are connected, just because they have the same face, and often the animal people have distinct faces when their animal counterparts are in game unless it's supposed to be them (Think the owls in Paradise not looking like Mr. Owl, but the boar being confirmed as Mr. Boar and looking like him)
So do you think that pigeon in Harvey's box is connected to Mrs. Pigeon (who should be a CS under yhe lake) & the easter egg boar is Mr. Boar (while Gerard is still a human)?
But I see what you're getting at. It just struck me the wrong way how even characters like the old lady in Mill have other connections and he doesn't. And he plays a much larger role than other background characters like the police officer that ||Bob kills|| in Case 23 or the party guests in White Door
Doesn't the achievement that you get say that it is Mr Boar? Or am I mistaken
But for the pigeon I'm not sure about, good point
Lev, sorry but I struggle to understand your flow of thoughts. Too much information for my perception. Could you please repeat everything but devided into smaller parts?
@azure bay without proof i can
Silly idea, but Mr Toad would've had the least chance of surviving the outbreak of 1896. The other 3 could fly and have shown up in later games. 
And for what I was saying, even if they aren't there their animal species play important roles in Paradise
@hollow comet That actually makes a ton of sense
I'll try to explain it more simply.
Toad could just swim away :з
weren't there toads in paradise? 👀 (/joking i dont have serious theories)
They were frogs I think @raven spindle
aha
@grave stratus I think boar & rabbit in Paradise are hints that the main characters of the plague are specific future guests in the hotel
What do you mean? @azure bay
The boar appears in the chapter where Gerard either dies or gets revived. The rabbit in the chapter when David goes killing everything as a fly
Yeah
So it could be just hinting their connection to the certaint guests
So maybe they're the spirits of them? Being brought out?
@grave stratus are you familiar with the samsara concept?
Yeah
In general, if it's easier, I wanted to say this. Cities sprang up around industries. We know there was a cigar production on the lake And apparently newspapers. So there was a town around the corner, probably the town where Dale lived, but it was also the second town where the white door events took place and a bob was born. Also, apparently anyone can get to the lake, Despite the fact that it is surrounded by forest. In that long message I prove that there is a city of Dale (D) and a city of Bob's city (B). This is what I prove there. @azure bay
I'm trying to think where else the deer appears. I think in the woods in Paradox and during Locusts, right?
There was no deer in Paradise
I think the forest near the lake, a kind of protective barrier from random and unnecessary travelers.
Huh, could've sworn there was... Oh well
So, samsara. The original samsara implies that the sequence of rebirths is linear. There cannot be 2 minds in 1 body
So spirits are questionable to exist
Hmm...
I think the forest near the lake, a kind of protective barrier from random and unnecessary travelers.
@tight geyser which games are you refering to?
This is my version. Is it possible to get to the lakes by chance?
Well, you could argue that the uncle is dying/dead in that chapter until he gets the ||clockwork heart||, and that the brother is kind of dead from being a fly?
I'm convinced that Gerard was still alive during boar appearance
This is my version. Is it possible to get to the lakes by chance?
@tight geyser probably not. But the forest may or may not be that bareer of yours
I ask you for the examples
This is my version. Is it possible to get to the lakes by chance?
there's that guy fishing in The Cave
He does not seem being random.
He definetely helps with a deed he could not know about
I think that's just a puzzle mechanic
Never the less it's not right to use him as an evidense if we can't agree on his role
both showed up out of nowhere
(a good place for my nickname pun)
Ida just happened to carry a pipe
those are merely puzzle mechanics
so is the fishing guy making letters
Ida was there not only for a pipe
She seems to be a traveling future teller
& knowing that her wedding with Sam was 5 years later with Leo already born
She gave him birth on the road
& returned to settle down with his biological father
So we have here at least 2 cases of her entering the lake region
@tight geyser 1) what examples do you have of the forest being a bareer on the way to the Lake
2) why do you think that Dale & Bob are living in different cities? & what reasons do you have to believe that they are situated near the lake?
Dales view from birthday is a small town, isn't it?
it's likely he moved after his parents died and he became a detective, of course.
That's my point
@azure bay About cities. See two snags. Firstly, those summer cottages that we see in idleness, whether vryat could be rebuilt in the city that is in the white door. Second, we know Leonard fought. During WWI troops were taken to the front by train. Or The lake was not far from the front line, or Leonard drove to some large city where the train was, since the latter were small
A friend of mine has 2 separate theories.
- The Lake is in Canada
- Dale & Bob live in NYC
Here's why
What NYC?
New York City
Well, first of all, are they not? Leonard was in English uniform, which means at least a house and a lake in England. As for Bob, I think he is American but the white door and that city is not far from the lake
The lake probably has multiple access points around the globe
and could very well exist in a pocket dimension
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- Rusty Lake is a common name in Canada.
- Daily Herald is present in Canada.
- Canadian used british gear during WWI
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- Dale's profession in that very form, according to my friend, is US exclusive
- His car is Chrysler widely used by different US police departments.
- Not only Bob's cube was found in NYC this year, but also Hoorn's body. That could mean that TWD is also there.
But what evidence do you have of TWD being near the lake?
Well, the lake can at least be in the pocket dimension, but other objects can be nearby and the lake can change its position
Plus "my daughter will return to Rusty Lake" probably implies that Laura's moved far away from her mother's home
you know, I thought, maybe the lake and the world of the asuras are one reality, but our world is different and the area from the junction is the lake, there the film between the changes is so thin that you can easily get there and from there.this place affects behavior and psyche, for example, Albert. that's why there is a hotel, it is a transition point for asuras from one world to another, and that's why phillin is sitting there. he follows events. possibly lakes can move in space
This explains the paranormality of the lake, it is located at the junction of two worlds.
I tend to believe more in the lake being accessible from different points
While Hotel can be seen in Arles
The hotel and the lake can be seen in both worlds!
We don't know anything about Azura's world
Wow
We know that Mr. Pig was an ambassador. Ambassador of what? How did you rule as an ambassador for something? Perhaps the asuras?
technically, the surface of the Lake is the interface between the mortal realm and the underwater forest, the home of the corrupted souls 
Yes.
Lakes and purgatory of damned souls. I don't deny it
Maybe there just at the junction of the worlds, they are sent. The deer soul escaped from the lake and attacked
How did the cow in the mill got to where it was?
the window.

How did the cow in the mill got to where it was?
@undone sun Mr. Owl has powers to teleport Dale. A cow should not be a problem :з
I need @azure bay to answer my questions but I have no idea where he is so I'll wait :) please ping me when you see this
One question I have: How does Arles tie into any of this? Other than having common elements to the other games, I mean.
He's red-haired
Ah. You know, I didn’t think about that. Thank you.
You're welcome

Btw Arles revisits Van Gogh's death
Adding his transformation into a CS and his "sanitation" by facing it
Well, nothing so important for the main lore😛
Wait I don't get it, what does red hair have anything to do with the link between other games? For Van gogh

But if you're working for rusty lake developers, I'm sure you know something we don't 😌
I think you're mistaken. The only people associated with RL have the Rusty Lake role. I am not a dev.
@vague imp you wanted to see me?
Yeah I liked your joke
Made me laugh very hard
But my question: how come they use memories of the people but not the livestock in rusty lake 😕 don't cows have memories? @azure bay
I don't really get your point@vague imp
Mr owl only targets people, not animals
😂
Yes
Yes, the white. Though we don't know what the exact sort is.
white flowers normally represent death
We are playing as Frank this time,yay
but also purity and innocence
it might be frank rose or leo
The flower makes me think of Emma thought.
although i wouldn't call Albert "pure and innocent"
but okay let's say for the sake of this theory it's for a memorial
I thought that too. But because of the flower and the casket, I think the flower is for memorial.
I suggest it would be chrysanthemum....?
Yup
well it could be Rose
It's most likely Chrysanthemum
Yep, that flower.
oh lmao i thought it was a fancy word sorry im not a native English speaker..XD
but it really looked like that cris something flower
also im not really a botanic so idk my flowers
same
I think they're worldwide if it comes to meaning of "death" and "memorial?
imma call it chris flower, cause the actual name is tedious
It's fine😁I can simply add more explanations.
thats why I said I think
oh mdfklbndfbd
just looked at it
Yeah in Korea we use that flower for memorial. But I have no idea what flower is used for memorial in other countries.
sorry my brain blocked that part out omg
There are many flowers, but there are some that are well... Mostly used
the flower could as well be lily
im so sorry..XD
Chrysanthemum are more likely because they are mourn flowers.
Chrysanthemum are more likely because they are mourn flowers.
Quite possibly it can Chrysanthemum👀
maybe idk but anyways i think we are likely playing as either:
*Albert
*Rose
*Leonard
i doubt Frank would bury the man he killed/hated so..XD
uhhh
graciously?
why would you hold a fancy funeral for someone you hated
Rose is most likely then.
In America and Europe, the meanings focus on sympathy and honor. The color plays a role in the meaning as well. Red symbolizes love, while white symbolizes innocence.
maybe but im curious do see where it goes?
yeah but what country exactly..XD
Maybe western europe
we at least know the continent
maybe..XD
Or British Ilses.
if only the Netherlands had mountains
russia?
no..
France Italie or Switzerland ?

