#watcher answers

[pocket-watcher]

prompt uwu

Guy hears about hypno villain, seeks him out and is like “I know what you’re doing” and the villain is like “oh shit oh fuck he knows” but the guy is like “hypnotize me next pls 👉👈” much to the villain’s confusion but he complies and it’s sexy and hot and awesome

Okay, so I am SO sure I’ve read this fanfic before, but I couldn’t find it so if anyone knows the one I mean please send it so I can tag it!!

I hope you enjoy!!

It was always so easy.

Once he’d realised he could simply make any hero forget that they’d ever seen him, scrub his power from all records, get that one nice lady who worked at YouTube to copystrike all the videos of him…

Well, now he was a ghost. A shadow. No one panicked when he walked in. He could whisper in their ear easily, sending them spiralling down deeper under his control, melting into trance as he calmly and collectedly robbed a bank. Or two. Or ten.

Or how about that time he convinced that security guard to simply hand over the Mona Lisa only for it to end up on top of the Empire State Building. Everyone had seen him take it. No one would remember they had, though.

The joys of a hypnotic superpower.

He couldn’t be the only one, though. Mystery crimes popped up every month. No, there were others like him. Ghosts. Pulling the strings without anyone realising.

But, if no one remembered him then how the fuck was the third most well-known hero in the country currently trying to break into his base?!

He could see him, right there, waving his arms about staring right into the well-hidden camera mouthing the words HEY and HELLO over and over again. He also threatened to punch through the wall, and that just wouldn’t do. How did this hero know how to push the villain’s buttons so damn well?!

Against his better judgement, he opened a hidden door in the wall (note to self, remove this entrance) and allowed the man inside.

Stashing a gun into his pocket, just in case, the villain sat in his chair, fingers intertwined, waiting for the hero to approach.

“Ah, and do what do I owe the house visit?” He said, keeping his anxieties under wraps.

The hero stood sternly, silently.

“I do appreciate you giving me the opportunity to save my wall, but, then again, I don’t quite understand what you’re doing here.” The villain continued. He cocked his head, studying the broad spandex-cladded figure in front of him. Why hadn’t he attacked yet?

“I know what you’re doing.” The hero finally spoke.

Shit. Fuck. Motherfucker. No he absolutely did not. That was fucking impossible!

“Oh?” A slight tremble may or may not have made its way into the villain’s voice.

“Yes. You had a run in with a member of my team - she didn’t remember a thing, security footage showed a man who spoke to her and walked right past. She couldn’t even describe what you sounded like.” The hero continued.

The fucking security footage. He’d been on a time crunch, duties in the personal life getting in the way. Typically his commands involved telling the heroes not to bother with security footage - but external factors were… annoying.

The villain grit his teeth.

“Do you really think I couldn’t wipe your mind in an instant? Use you as a footstool for the afternoon, or make you beg like a dog, or maybe just forget you were a hero altogether.” A smug smile and lit up eyes didn’t seem to intimidate the hero.

“…Please.”

What.

“Excuse me?”

“P-please. That’s why I’m here.” The hero stepped closer, a manic laughter bursting from his chest. “What the fuck am I doing?” He shook his head.

The villain blinked, rising from the chair.

“You’re here for me to…”

“Use your powers on me.” The villain didn’t utter a word, and so the hero continued, pacing now. “It’s stupid! I didn’t even know that someone could do something like that, control someone like that - the footage unlocked some - some need in me. She said she’d never felt so wonderful, I had to find you. I had to.”

This guy was crazy, the villain thought. Of course he’d dreamt about using his powers to control the heroes, fully taking over the world with these symbols of peace and justice doing his bidding, but the smaller things interested him more. Leave the high stakes to the high profile villains, he was a shadow after all. But this? A hero asking him to? It was deliciously tempting…

“And how do I know this isn’t a trap?” The villain pondered, getting even closer to the hero now.

“I - this was taken from you.” The hero reached behind him and pulled out - oh, he pulled out a prototype - an amplifier. It could put everyone in a stadium under his power in mere seconds.

This hero was stupid, or reckless, or both. The villain took it back tentatively.

“You’re serious!” The villain cackled. “Oh, this is glorious. You - the only person in the world who knows my powers walked willingly into my lair in the hopes I’d toy with you?”

Deliciously tempting.

He let a small percentage of power seep into his voice. It became more melodic, persuasive, hypnotic.

“Well, that wasn’t very smart now, was it? Because now you’re here, with me, and there’s no one who’s coming to save you.”

The hero’s knees went weak, attention locked on the villain’s eyes. He was even biting his lip.

“Is this what you wanted? Are you falling so easily under my control? That eager for me to bend you to my every whim?”

The hero fell to his knees, a dumb smile forming on his face as the villain stopped reining in his power. The sound of his voice surrounded the hero, seeping deep into his mind until he could barely register where he was.

“I don’t often do kindnesses for humanity. I like to leave that up to you guys, but, I’m feeling rather… charitable today. Caught me in a good mood.” He studied the device - the gift, placing it on the side.

“Just relax. I’ll take very good care of you.”

[tillydouspart]

the shadow people

[wearewatcher]

In honour of the Ghost Files season 3 premiere, we’re doing a Tumblr Answer Time! 

Ryan and Shane be answering all your Ghost Files questions on Wed, October 9th (12pm PT / 3pm ET). Submit all your q’s here so we can answer them! 

[temeyes]

with a comically large 'stache, comes with a comically smol size

[oldmanpusspuss]

shane: ryan, what was your favorite memory from the set of the rookie [...] ryan: i would say that my favorite memory, other than spending the day with you, ✨ *laugh* shane: oh my gosh ryan: you know what i mean? *bergiggle* shane: *laughing* oh my gosh

[chromieclipse]

Vess reuniting with Slug Cat (since they played Rain World)

I know you proooobably meant Survivor specifically, but I couldn't pass up the chance to draw my favorite scug, The Watcher.... they're just so fun <3

[corpsezinthecloset]

Redid some designs because i wasnt happy with the old ones :3 also pls tell me who you wanna see me design next, I've ran out of ideas i fear

[gene-and-the-riskyfixins]

Are you going to give him a call?

[sergle]

Can you post your waist nakey

Can you dwown in a wiver

[pocket-watcher]

A yandere fic where someone has a secret hypnokink and the yandere learns this?

Oh anon, I hope you enjoy!

I’d been watching you…

I knew the routes you walked, the food you liked, the way you liked to do your hair. Everything about you was perfect.

Did you know your lip twitches a little when you’re nervous?

It started small. I would be where you were. I’d watch what you did with my own two eyes.

Putting my whole body into it.

But it wasn’t enough.

Hacking your phone was easy. Your search history was definitely interesting.

It was about a week after I first got ahold of your phone activity that I saw the spike in… searches.

Spirals. GIFs. Inductions. Hypnosis.

You were awful curious, weren’t you?

Made a whole new account just to scroll and watch and touch yourself to?

It was like unlocking a whole new side of you. And I wanted more.

So, I made an account. And I liked and reblogged everything you did.

After a while, you even followed me back!

That was when I started posting for myself…

Subtle triggers, burrowing in your brain, taking hold of you. I kept pushing you to message me. Message me.

After about a week or two you did just that.

I sent you spiral after spiral. Words to send you deeper. Sound files of my voice. You were such a cute and obedient subject!

After I was sure that I had you, I decided to test it out in person…

“Hey!” I called out to you. You turned around, distracted from your morning walk. You’d been up all night, talking to me - unknowingly. You were tired.

Your guard was down.

“Uh… hi?” You said, confused. You didn’t recognise me.

That’s okay.

“Sleep.” I said, snapping my fingers.

Your eyes rolled into the back of your head.

You dropped your phone, silly you!

“Come on, let’s get you home.” I said, leading you back to my house, excited to test out all the work I’d put in over the last few weeks…

[wearewatcher]

Would you ever bring a third investigator with you to a haunted place?

[temeyes]

what do you think the bois™️ would do if one stole price's hoodie🤔

the Boys™️ would def keep Price's hoodie for themselves!

don't worry tho, they left a replica in it's place! (well, close enough at least,,,)

[praisethesuns]

theories about the watcher and what it entails

obligatory MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILERS under the cut. this post will discuss one of the endings of the campaign, the path required to get there, and what it means about the greater world of, well, rain world.

this is the product of a considerable amount of contemplation and thinking too hard; it is also just a theory for now although i really do think i am onto something. further information as more of the watcher releases may change things but i want to record what i've concluded so far for posterity.

to also note: i do not have the dlc myself, and most of my conclusions have been drawn from watching others' playthroughs and piecing together the game's mechanics and dialogue. if how exactly one goes about something in the watcher is inaccurate, that is my bad.

to also also note: i tend to be rather verbose when it comes to explaining things. i do hope it is not too grating.

SO WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THE WATCHER'S SECOND* ENDING???

*i consider the "rot"/"prince" ending watcher's second ending, with the OAOA echo's (who i will be referring to from now on as top, due to their name in the files being implied to be "spinning top") as the first

for starters, i think a recap of what the second ending entails is pertinent - that explicitly stating what occurs is tantamount to untangling what precisely is going on.

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the rot-prince's ending in the watcher campaign requires you to visit the outer rim and create rifts from it to the other new regions of the campaign, with every new rift to a region turning the latter region purple on the greater map. sheltering in these purple-marked regions results in purple rot encroaching further through these regions. creating rifts from these regions to other regions will spread the rot further; and reaching the ending requires most regions to be corrupted, followed by visiting the throne one final time.

returning to the throne several more times along the way, the watcher will meet the titular prince (again, that is what they are referred to in the files), first as a presence as they climb the tree, then as an individual (arguably even puppet? which i will expand on later), who can be spoken to and interacted with past a certain point.

on the final meeting, however, the prince's puppet will be silent and still. the world will warp, and karma flowers will bloom from their head. the following cutscene depicts thousands on thousands of karma flowers growing, the darkness and purple of the outer rim's rot overcome with golden light.

at this point, then - credits roll.

so what exactly happened here?

COLOUR THEORY, THE GREAT PROBLEM AND A BRIEF RETURN TO VANILLA - PRELUDE

to start, the rot we see throughout the watcher campaign is very clearly purple - a departure from the blue we see in vanilla's campaigns within five pebbles. this colour is present as a motif throughout all this path of the watcher's campaign - the purple of the corrupted regions, the purple of the rot.

but the presence of purple is especially notable because of one key thing - purple is the complementary colour of yellow (especially in the RYB colour model - and to note, blue is the complementary of yellow in the RGB model, but we will focus on the purple here)

yellow, a colour associated with many things in rain world. ascension, karma, enlightenment, void fluid. this places the purple of watcher's campaign as a very deliberate inversion of what we traditionally associate with the process of passing on that the ancients/forebears/benefactors idealized so much in rain world. and this inversion in and of itself inverts once more at the end of it all, as all the outer rim is overcome with yellow in the final cutscene.

granted, while i consider the downpour and watcher dlcs to be very mutually exclusive branches and expansions of vanilla, there is a particular mention of inversion in downpour that i think should be noted.

throughout the broadcasts of downpour, an iterator with the tag "NGI" repeatedly refers to a "transcendental inversion", pushing it as a theory towards the solution of the great problem. while they are disregarded by the other iterators in the chats, the idea of a transcendental inversion being heavily involved in the solution sounds rather familiar, no?

it's the final culmination of the prince's ending where all the purple in outer rim inverts to yellow.

(of course, for a more continuity-compliant piece of evidence, NGI's acronym has been translated in other languages to roughly mean "indigo" something - indigo, the colour between blue and purple on the spectrum. even if the inversion is not mentioned by them in canon vanilla itself, NGI's seemingly dismissable interjections may have more truth to them than their peers think.)

i believe the final cutscene of the prince's ending is us witnessing that very transcendental inversion - witnessing the triple affirmative and the solution to the great problem finally come to fruition, at the end of it all.

which is a rather steep task to fulfill! but at this point we should also dissect what precisely the great problem is, and what the triple affirmative entails.

the great problem involves allowing all the beings of the world to reach enlightenment - to allow every last living creature to thus reach ascension. this is not just for the ancients, but for the creatures as well - particularly the creatures, as the ancients believe that it is their obligation to the world to spread the capability for enlightenment.

the iterators are thus created to find a solution to this issue that fulfills the triple affirmative - affirmative that it has been found, affirmative that it is portable, and affirmative that a technical implementation is possible and generally applicable - a method to enlighten/ascend all the world that is logistically feasible to implement and carry through.

so how does spreading the rot contribute to all this?

WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY... STUFF

the regions in the watcher's campaign are scattered throughout time and throughout space. this is most apparent following top's story, as the watcher follows their path through both. it is this very shadowing of top that allows them to truly move on from their echoic state in the end.

but what i find most relevant to this theory is what happens when you meet top after creating a rift without the protection of a karma flower - something directly stated as "risky". they will comment on the state of the region - a corrupted, rot-infested version of a vanilla one - and they will say that all the world looks like this "when they go too far". that the final end state of the world is rotten, decaying. i believe the fact that they take you to outer rim specifically after this conversation is them bringing you to the closest "safe" place - the outer rim's name is significant because it is the outer reach not of space, but of time. it is the furthest future before the absolute end.

so why is the world consumed by rot? what does this rot have to do with the ultimate transcension?

this likely lays within further dialogue we see from the prince themselves - expressing a desire to further their "kingdom", seeing the watcher as a friend - but these specific lines are what is most telling to the prince's nature -

"I am cataloging all things, you know. The imperative that was in THEM remains in me. But I am not wholly them, and not blind to the folly of their forbearers. I am… something new."

furthermore, the room where the prince's "puppet" (note the very specific word i am using here) is labelled as "AI" - the very same that the puppet chambers of five pebbles and looks to the moon are labelled as. this notation is nothing short of deliberate, and the prince's line (referring to THEM (the iterators), their imperative (the great problem), their forebears (the benefactors)) more or less implies that they are a successor to the iterators, but not one of them themself - they are something entirely new. combined with the knowledge from vanilla that rot comes from iterators adds a whole new meaning to it.

the prince is an agglomeration of iterators - maybe pebbles, maybe sliver, maybe more - and they are the descendant of the remains of those iterators' consciousnesses ("I am not wholly them"), with the drive to fulfill the triple affirmative all the same ("the imperative.. remains in me").

and drawing back to the solution? the transcendental inversion, the outer rim blooming?

the prince sought to expand their kingdom to all the world (all the regions in-game) so that they may fulfill what their predecessors were tasked to do so long ago. that they may unite all as one under the rot and move on from the world. not just them, but every last being that was subsumed by their infection - the iterators, the creatures, the world. all is overcome with the rot and all passes on at the very end of everything.

that this is what we as the watcher accomplish. that the ripples of our meandering and of our rifts and of our search for answers echo through space and time, all culminating in the final departure at the end of it all.

it's bittersweet, and it comes at a hell of a cost - the whole world is assimilated into one, and countless creatures and beings had to suffer along the way - subsumed and consumed by the rot and the greater intelligence it would eventually form.

but at the end of it all, the world finally moves on.

...

Thank you for reading to the end. i hope you find something worthwhile in my thoughts/crazed ramblings. i don't think this conclusion is one every rain world fan will like but this is the one that, for better or worse, makes the most sense to me. in the end, we will all have to see what comes next, what the subsequent arcs of the watcher's story tells us. what i am positing may in the end have no truth to it at all. thank you again for reading, and take care of yourself out there. <3

[oldmanpusspuss]

ryan...girl. no man has ever been that funny. calm down.

[ghostface-knight]

i need more lore about the sniggles. where do they come from? are they born from the black and white? are they from drowsy town? how does drowsy town function in relation to the black and white? do they have differing relationships with each of their respective lords in black? because wiggly's sniggles seem on board with everything he's doing, but we see that blinky's live in fear of him. i need answers.

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

wait hold on this is so random but did wesley actually have a job at sunnydale high. like he was a chaperone at the prom was he just. Another librarian or something. was he a faculty member or did snyder just let this random british man hang out in the library for no reason. i fully never paid attention to this but now it is haunting me