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Me, before playing path to nowhere: I'm not even a responsible enough adult to look after myself. I can't take care of a kid.
Me, after playing path to nowhere: *collecting kids like I'm collecting coins in mario* I'm going to give you all the love I never got from my mom and you will like it
hey, what’s up? finally started playing ptn. does angst exist in the ptn writing community? if it doesn’t, lemme introduce myself— /shot.
as i was saying! i finished chapter 3 so i don’t know much about the lore yet. but something came to my mind the last few days since i finished it. okay, sinners are unshackled if the sinner themselves die or if the chief dies. zoya wondered about the chief’s shackles, one of which being the side effects, and even the chief doesn’t know the content behind their own powers (amnesiac protagonist amirite).
so this is my idea: what happens if you, the chief, dies? the sinners you shackled finally gained freedom, but why does it feel so empty? and as time went on, their unconscious reactions of grief, sadness, and other negative things that are indescribable caused their mania levels to spike, losing control over their powers and themselves, to the point where they start to hallucinate you being alive.
they hallucinate an alternate reality, maybe a dream. in one life, you and them are strangers. in another, you’re friends. in another, you’re lovers. in another, your relationship with them could be something else. why do their hearts ache when they see you? shouldn’t they feel overjoyed that they have control of their own powers back? to kill you over and over again, the cause of their misery, without the shackles holding them back? but, why is it…regret? should’ve they done something to prevent your death?
when they call your name, depending on your relationship with them in that alternate universe, either you’ll give them a confused look but ask for their name, give them a hug, or kiss their face. and when the dream ends, when they soon succumb to madness of mania, the grief, sadness, and pain finally hit them. they want you to call their name so many times they won’t forget, to hold them a little bit longer to feel their warmth, and to take your breath away as if their lives depended on it. afterwards their mania peaks. their dreamworld starts to fall apart, and you’ve become transparent, slowly vanishing from their memory.
as they inch closer to death, they can feel your presence enveloping them. it’s warm and safe, as if death never came knocking on their door at all. as their consciousness drift away into nothingness, all they can hear are muffled noises, except one: your voice. in that moment, they found you in a field of flowers (the scene in the beginning of the game), in another place of existence where their darkness can’t reach.
Wanted to make a mini rant/theory after the updated CG's came out for the Prologue on Cn because my brain couldn't stop running.
The Chief's eye has the triangle in it. The same thing Shalom has, and something I believe is similar to what Hecate also has. Though I think not as much since Hecate is considered a failed project of HUSH
I think this has further meaning to it, with one of them being that they are essentially "created" from Paradeisos (Hecate and Shalom with HUSH) (Chief with them trying to get their shackle powers)
I'm still trying to grasp at Floral Unfurl event and I haven't done Shalom's interrogation yet so do call me out if some things aren't correct; but I believe they (Shalom and Chief, couldn't find it on Hecate) share something with each other and one other mysterious person.
These flowers. We know they are significant to the story in some way which I'm still trying to uncover- but one thing I noticed is that you see them with people related to Paradeisos. We see it with Shalom and Chief- but with Chief as well as Suspect R, or Rebecca.
I think somehow both of them are connected to Paradeisos. With it being more obvious with the Chief- as for Rebecca the only thing is the connection Chief has with her and those flowers and her color scheme to some of the big players we saw at the end of Chapter 13
But that's more a theory than anything else.
And with all this said, I don't think she is the end goal in all of this- of course not there must be more.
We have one more character we have never thought twice about that also has relations to these flowers.
Chapter 13 cutscene end, who do we see? This mysterious woman who has connections to these flowers as well. Mean't to be an obvious foil to the Chief, as the color schemes are opposites (Blues for Chief and Red's for her).
And why might this be so familiar?
[It is a sense sustained by blood. She is always there, waiting for you.
"At last, only the two of us are left. We can't move forward without each other."
"If you take any longer to come visit me... I'll be the one dropping you a visit."]
It is the Scarlet Bewitchment Crimebrand. I feel like she is the whole reason why Paradeisos is even making these products. Whatever the case may be.