Its been five whole years between the two Oxenfree games, and people noticed.
Alex watched Riley’s life, she saw the time pass in the past, present, and future. Olivia, Charlie, and Violet all had to hear about these rumors, be lured, because all of the first Oxenfree had already happened. Alex and her friends are tired. Most of all, if you tune into the radio at a certain time, there will be a man on that radio, and he will be speaking in dedication to his nephew. A nephew named Ren.
It’s been five years. What do their families think happened? That they’re dead? Were there no searches? What did Ren’s sisters think, on that island that one of them worked on, that swallowed up their brother? Nona’s parents? Clarissa’s family? What about Alex and Jonas’ parents? How could they possibly handle that, their children finally meeting for the first time, trying to make it all work---and then they’re gone. Did they even stay together after that?
Riley and Jacob lived in a world where five kids went missing on Edwards Island. A world where there were no answers to what happened. As soon as they stepped off that boat, they were erased from existence itself. A world where four families clawed for hope and never got it back.
That world doesn’t exist anymore. But for five years, it was real. One has to wonder if grief can transcend dimensions.
things that are (probably) true now that we have canon birthdates for the oxenfree characters
the events of the original oxenfree take place on june 4th, 2016. if taken into town, nona reveals that her birthday is in 3 days. since we now know that her birthday is june 7th, and that lost signals takes place 5 years afterwards in 2021, we finally know the exact day the first game happens. yay!
clarissa's birthday happens to fall on the same day that anna was killed. as maggie writes in adler letter 9, april 4th is the day in 1952 that she and anna tried to bring the sunken back.
last year, ren went to the movie theater and watched oppenheimer with nona (and clarissa) because she wanted to see it, even though he wanted to go see barbie, and it was his birthday that day.
anyone else get really sad when they think about the first oxenfree game? like they're doomed to that loop. Alex is the only one who REALLY remembers — everyone else just feels a slight deja vu. they've been looping for what, five years? that's five years they lost. their families moved on, probably, or forgot about them. i don't doubt that the sunken somehow erased them from existence — like in the ending where everyone forgets Clarissa. And without Riley coming along, they would have been stuck there.
I really hope they make a third game, preferably about Maggie but I'd love to see how their lives were affected after they escaped the loop.
This are the og characters: Alex, Michael (tho he doesn't appear here), Jonas, Clarissa, Ren, and Nona. And the rot with the iterators is the sunken (if you know you know :3)
I went fucking insane with this one. I just wanted to doodle and this came out. I'm really proud of it. My favorite game and the fandom I'm in combined. I think I managed the ideas very well. I don't really know much about rainworld but I think it's good anyway. I wanted to make more rainworld art but didn't really know what to do so I did this. This is mostly just concept art. Might expand on it in the future. I got really cool ideas on how the whole thing could work. If this could be considered an au? idk. I still have to work on it.
If you have any questions about it please send asks! It would really help me develop this idea! And also If you have any ideas you think could work great I would gladly appreciate them! I'm really optimistic about this and would like to do more. Hope you guys find it interesting. If you don't know what Oxenfree is I highly recommend you check it out! It's my favorite game. You don't have to play the game if you don't want but you could check a walkthrough.