#My Idea for a rewrite of HN2's Intro

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lucid inlet
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So originally this was going to be a bigger rewrite for the main story of HN2 as a whole, but I ran out of room and I decided to make them separate threads. This thread is mainly covering the Intro and how I think it could be rewritten.

The game would start off with a flashback/dream and we see Quentin in the back of his van with a board on his wall. He puts up a missing poster of five different kids who have gone missing, including Aaron and Mya Peterson. Quentin then starts up his car and we get the whole cutscene from the main game, except instead of seeing Aaron and Theodor Peterson, we see The Guest climbing the roof of 910 Friendly Court, stalking Quentin. Quentin is about to take a picture, and when he pans his camera back at The Guest, he is gone. Quentin looks around before he hears footsteps on the top of his van. Then, we see "him" Mr. Peterson. He walks out with a shovel and attacks Quentin's van. Quentin is quick to step on it and drive away, but the Guest jumps down and causes Quentin to drive off the road and into the barn. Now the whole tutorial level isn't really changed, but the ending of it is. Quentin walks out of the Barn and is attack by The Guest. The Guest leaves him on the ground, and quickly runs away as Mr. Peterson appears and takes Quentin's camera in fear he may have taken photo graphic evidence of his actions. (This would show how stressed Mr. Peterson is.)

We then cut back to Quentin in his bedroom waking up and he looks at the TV screens and finds recorded camera footage of Mr. Peterson driving away from his house. We cut to see Mr. Peterson with his son Aaron in the car, when Aaron tries to speak, Mr. Peterson shushes him. The two drive to the Museum and we see Mr. Peterson bring Aaron into the attic and locking the door. He sighs regretfully and leaves, which causes Aaron to start crying.

potent cradle
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Ehh I dont agree with Aaron being in here

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If you consider hnvr he can no longer be with his dad

lucid inlet
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Well, it doesn't retcon the events of HNVR, but remember that Aaron is still missing even after you beat the game. So Mr. Peterson got time to grab Aaron after the events of HNVR, and Aaron is scared to speak or yell because he doesn't know what his father will do to him. To also keep Aaron a mystery for the game instead of the main objective, you would need to find clues on where missing kids are around Raven Brooks instead of just Aaron as he would be revealed near the end of the game when you get into Mr. Peterson's attic in the Museum.

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Also for my events for it, Mr. Peterson would see Aaron's muddy footprints that lead to the Museum because back he and Mya would go to the abandoned Museum with Nicky to just mess around and check out some of the cool stuff there. So Mr. Peterson would track him down and would see the Museum. So in the start of the game, Mr. Peterson had managed to catch his son trying to escape and caught him trying to get to the police while his house is under an investigation, that's why he drove off so quickly when the police were getting near his house. It would also give a hint that the police force in Raven Brooks is somewhat bad as they don't pursue Mr. Peterson and instead investigate his house. This is because the Mayor is going to play a bigger part in this short story. But I'll talk about him some other time. I know you don't agree with Aaron, and it's totally fine regardless because we could just make it to be Mr. Peterson being investigated when Aaron and Nicky escaped and told the police about what happened, with Officers Lessie and Keith taking what they said serious because the Mayor had managed to corrupt most of the police force in HN2 because he is the leader of the Forest Protectors and is trying to bring them back, but he first needed to somehow get the police off his back. To new players, it would be a mystery for why the police aren't taking things too seriously, and why Lessie and Keith are the only honest officers wanting to help people because that is what they want to do.

potent cradle
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Anyway im in favor of removing Aaron

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because having to save him AGAIN is lame and is just uncreative

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In the older builds of hn2 its implied the guest was manipulating ted into doing something