[Music] coping mechanisms it's how we survive in the moment but sometimes they could lead to our demise attaching themselves to bad habits or self-destructive Behavior sometimes I like to think about the imaginary friend for most it's a harmless coping mechanism but then I think about its more problematic cousin the Persona a mode that we switch into we allow it to take the Reigns steer for a little bit while we recede into our Deep Mind and relax for a bit but what happens when the lines start to blur at any moment you have to ask the question am I me or am I FL peacock detective we need to talk [Music] I'm not sure if I could say at what point this channel was Peak flaw peacock but I think I can say with these that there will be no piece of media no video game no book that will be a more perfect match for this channel than the video game who's Lila it goes without saying if at any point in this video this game Peaks your interest I want you it play the game enjoy it submerged yourself in the mystery and if you ever hit a wall you get frustrated you don't know where to go beyond that point that you're stuck at be Serene in knowing that in clicking on this video and playing this game you no no no no no be Serene in knowing that the game you're playing has an airtight story an airtight mystery that maintains a healthy amount of closure and a healthy amount of mystery and hopefully if I do a good job in this video you'll be satisfied with the questions that we do answer as well as the questions that remain unanswered and you'll be surprised how much we could we potentially answer in this video I'm very excited whose Lila is described as a reverse detective game to be more specific you is the detective uh you the player are a detective but the character you play as is a suspect in this mystery you play the game through their eyes and you uncover the mystery as you play through these various events it's very interesting the character you play as has trouble showing you emotions and experiencing empathy so it's up to the player to physically manipulate the muscles of the face to show the appropriate or inappropriate emotions there are several surface level endings that you can achieve just through normal gameplay however there are several more obscure to full-blown secret endings that you could only achieve through information you get from ARG mechanics and don't worry the ARG mechanics are very manageable this is in some cicada 1738 BS now let me be clear I'm a College Dropout I've only ever read two books in my life that's a scare school in the nightmare room series by RL Stein and um their eyes are watching God in language arts in high school so despite me not being smart in the conventional sense I'm very proud of the amount of detective accomplishments we're going to make in this video so let me assure you if me if I can explore this thoroughly and discover the things that I discover uh you can too without a doubt without a doubt but first real quick I need to get these out of the way shout out to gaav for checking in on me the emails the questions it's all been very good and of course the fan art shout out to the paintball mask gal for the Friday night Funk and Fan Art it's freaking cool also I forgot to mention June but Cooler's fan art the skinwalker variant of floppy coock Rand horn I'm still waiting for the full release of flawed Theory shout out to them as well and of course TT number two for the oral I think pronouncing it right remix of the original eruditio and toy Bonnie or choco salad on Minecraft for this this cool ass Minecraft skin let's start off our investigation by first outlining how we are going to investigate there are a pleora of endings for this game all with their own achievements attached to it titled after the various Arcana of the Tero so I've split these endings off into two different groups the first group which is the be EST one frankly uh is all the endings that can be achieved through normal gameplay the second group are all the endings that can only be achieved using information that you can that you can only get through ARG gameplay within normal gameplay there are sort of subgroups branches of endings if you will there is the interrogation Branch The Boiler Room branch and the forest Branch endings that are marked with a star are flashback ending so I mean the word ending is kind of loose in this game it's really like resolution to your playthrough after achieving or I guess discovering each ending we can discuss these endings with a mysterious detective that we can only get after achieving one of the three interrogation endings so we're going to start off with the Justice ending after going through all the various endings of the game we're going to finish off tie up everything by exploring a a save file that we will corrupt there's a secret debug area we're also going to cover two other garage Heathen games that tie very much into who Lila after after that we're going to go over all the things I missed for the most part in this investigation with the exception of two bits of information I didn't confer with forums or reddits I wanted to see how far I could go on my own this is going to be very important included in the things I missed are the eight Clues to solving the mystery of who's Lyla and this is a big one that won't be until the very end so let us start off with the Justice ending we wake up in our apartment our name is William Clark we are a curly-haired high school student who lives lives by himself it's difficult for me to express emotions I envy other people they make faces naturally but I have to make a conscious decision each time I move a muscle every morning I go to the bathroom to rehearse what my face is going to show today based on this dialogue we can surmise that our character William has neurological struggles to show emotions this will play a significant role in the game play examining the telephone doesn't give us much information however examining the cell phone reveals that it's broken an upcoming scene however will contradict or confuse this bit of data we take a gander at a nearby painting there's something haunting about this image but we won't be able to understand this until much later in our journey we enter the bathroom to initiate a sort of tutorial however before that we pry in our medicine cabinet we pick up a sort of cheat sheet that our William likely uses to help formulate common emotions with his face but for us the player this gives us a general idea as to what faces to mimic when we want to convey certain emotions this emotion chart is very similar to how many depict psychologists Paul eckman's charting of emotions I hadn't noticed this until now check out those blood splashes in the upper left and lower right hand corner of this cheat sheet page aside from that we see what would look to be a pair of detached eyeballs with their optic nerve sheath still attached however we'll come to realize that these are more likely mushro rooms used in the occult practices we'll later learn about the theming regarding eyes and perception isn't lost on me however these do look like eyeballs we say no need for these anymore interacting with the mirror initiates a sort of tutorial I'll give you some tips as to how to quickly achieve certain emotions but feel free to get creative when you play this game on your [Music] own when I see Miss Hutchins today she'll ask how I am like every morning I'll answer good thank you smiling is very simple simply moving a single corner of the mouth up suffices if I see a dead dog on the street I'll make a face like this this dead dog scenario can be responded to in an empathetic manner or a cruel manner making a sad face is empathetic while making a disgusted face is cruel a sad face is quickly made by dragging a corner of the mouth down while a disgusted face is easily made by dragging one side of the the upper lip upward bearing the top teeth yet some avert their eyes if some weird guy approaches me at the store I'll scare him away with an angry face take note of this misspelling of the word approaches even at this point I still don't know what this could mean there are multiple points in the game where certain words are misspelled and I can't help but feel there's something intentional to it that I've been missing throughout this entire investigation I have some thoughts but they won't be relevant until far into to our investigation an angry face is easily made by dragging one inner eyebrow downward if I discover that my sworn enemy died I'll make this face this scenario regarding a dead enemy is another instance where we can choose the empathetic route or the cruel route making a sad face is empathetic while smiling is cruel if somebody catches me off guard with an unexpected call I'll make this face to make a surprised face simply Furrow one eyebrow upward and if once again I see the one hiding in the boilers I'll be afraid the scared face is particularly difficult to achieve in a pinch unhinge your jaw open all aspects of the lips and mouth and move your eyebrows upward if the emotion indicator still says surprised drag the upper eyelids up as well but hold on the one hiding in the boilers who's that we'll come to discover who's that lady hiding in the boilers that's relevant for the boiler branch of endings right now we're working through the interrogation branch of endings this mirror tutorial is very important the interrogation ending we get and all the various little micro variations is determined by some of these key moments as to what emotions we show the mirror tutorial is a moment where we get to set the stage and see who really is under the mask do we have compassion to show sadness for the dead dog and even the Dead enemy or do we allow our inner most base instincts to kick in and show disgust at the dead animal and happiness at the dead Ral all these various different events I will be categorizing into one of two outcomes a mask outcome and a sus outcome if we maintain our mask in this tutorial or show empathy all three of the interrogation endings are still in play so we'll do that for this playthrough don't worry I'm not going to be overe explaining these gameplay Mechanics for the entire video this is just because this is our first playthrough after this ending especially after these branch of endings it's going to be a lot more lore and puzzle solving and a lot less explaining game mechanics well but that's unlikely isn't it I have to take out the trash before going to school haven't appeared there for a while walking out of the bathroom we are hit with an all too relatable scene [Music] I vividly remember a time when hearing my cell phone ring would legit give me anxiety but now that 95% of people calling are scammers and telemarketers I've realized there's nothing to be afraid [Music] of hey man why aren't you answering the phone they gave you anyway ways have you heard father Lawrence is dead meet me at the train station father Lawrence not only plays an integral role in Williams fate but also in the grand scheme of figuring out who lla is let's keep this Priestly hero Fant in mind immediately after this telephone call our supposedly broken cell phone rings look please I beg you back in myom is racing is this some sort of auditory vignette of somebody obsessing over lla is this will perhaps this is a recent memory being played back to him at least these were the thoughts that were coursing through my mind when I first heard this keep this cell phone call in mind we'll come to find out that this request to be let back in is far more literal than we may have initially thought also this is the cell phone ring when we play it in reverse so here we have a couple of leads as to where we can take our adventure investigating the person on the telephone takes us to the train station leading us to the Reversed Empress ending while the source of the voice on the cell phone will be easily stumbled upon taking us to the boiler ending Branch don't worry we'll get there soon enough let's stick to the task at hand we enter the kitchen to see our trash on the counter across from us before that let's dig into some evidence we see a mess of spil beer in Pizza crumbs lazily mopped up with newspaper the beer has obscured some of the text on the newspaper all we can make out is this on Saturday afternoon November 12th at 1:00 p.m. a fire has erupted in an apartment building on courland Street Apartment unintelligible killing all its inhabitants the apartment was allegedly used by a group led by Mr law unintelligible as the police are investigating the case access to the site is currently restricted so here's our first bit of data for our timeline on November 12th a fire breaks out at an apartment building kill killing nearly all the members of a group led by somebody whose name has the first two letters of L A will come to find out that this leader is Lawrence father Lawrence that that mysterious person on the telephone was referring to perhaps this voice that was on the phone was a fellow member that wanted to touch base with William regarding this pic Calamity only time and investigation will tell the address for the meeting area of this fraternity is obscured by beer but this shouldn't be an issue however we'll come to find out that will is associated with this group so he should already know the address for this community but when we get to the bus stop we won't have that information keep that small detail in mind the beginning of the article is unreadable the same study shows that among all eras works of media exist that seemed to not only perfectly reflect the so-called Zeitgeist of the respective era but also appear to be very powerful movers of the public will so powerful and effective in fact that some speculate their existence to be premeditated and planned by unknown groups of higher ups we being the respectable scientific publication we are are not going to entertain sub unreadable yet is there perhaps a process a means of knowingly creating a work of media of such power unreadable with the sudden Global interconnectivity of the worldwide web and the article ends it seems this game is feeding us one of the key themes of its mystery mediums of the era being used to propagate ideas and form the Zeitgeist or in other words mass human consciousness if one could somehow harness the power of these mediums they have the potential of controlling and socially engineering the masses of people maybe even steer the fate of humanity we've seen this happen with art and ideology IES and whatnot but with the implication of the worldwide web we've seen a similar effect with memes now I'm not sure what I could put on this whiteboard without giving too much away I mean the fact we're even at this whiteboard talking about memes is already giving away a bit too much so in the meantime given their nature I really don't have to tell you this but keep this concept of memes in mind on the other counter we see a diary locked with a Cod An Empty Glass and a farmand saw given the ellipses we can surmise that will hesitates before examining it this isn't a common kitchen utensil and given that we have an oddly placed trash bag right next to it paints quite a creepy picture we'll open the diary soon enough this brings me to a quick point that symbol you see in the upper left hand of the screen won't play a role in our investigation until after we clear all the normal gameplay endings so ignore it in the meantime think of it as an indication that we'll be revisiting this what's that noise is that dogs barking yelping screaming what the hell for your sanity I'll mute these distressing noises for some reason leaving our cursor on the fridge for a period of time causes these noises of barking dogs to start fading in the track for this noise is simply called meat these horrid can9 noises and the distressing implication of them being played over the fridge will play a role in the empress ending and overall this motif of dogs will keep repeating itself throughout the game in fact we already had a dog Motif in that mirror tutorial leaving our apartment we see some missing persons posters strewn about the stairway a local Girl by the name of Tanya Kennedy is missing but what's odd is that the picture shares more of a likeness with lla the namesake of this game we still don't know who lla is a fellow classmate a twin sister of Tanya something more abstract however keep our dear Tanya in mind it's time I reveal the prime purpose of this particular whiteboard the primary thing we're going to be doing with this is figuring out what happened to Tanya but we'll solve that mystery soon enough so the tertiary or secondary function of this whiteboard is just to give us a good understanding of just where the events take place every bit of data in this game that has a date we're going to be putting on this whiteboard and I'll also reveal this bit right now we'll get the date that Tanya goes missing later in this investigation and we'll get the date that this game takes place later in our investigation but I want to let you know now Tanya has been missing for a week we meet our building conier Miss Hutchins this is our first instance of having various choices and how we use our emotions to steer the tone of the conversation the tutorial suggests we meet Miss Hutchin with a warm smile hi sweetie hello Miss Hutchin you smiled what are you up to so early in the morning just throwing up the trash Miss Hutchin there's been an awful lot of crows near our trash cans annoying Critters H I'll be on my way Miss hins take care of yourself sweetie we get a similar result from a neutral face the sad face actually leads to some sweeter dialogue revealing the friendship that will and Miss Hutchin share hi sweetie hello Miss Hutchin you made a sad face what's wrong with you my boy are you all right yeah something trouble at school again if you need to tell me something I'm all ears it's all right Miss Hutchins oh I'm sorry I just want to help you sweetheart since your mother passed away you've always been so quiet and seem isolated oh I'm sorry my boy don't listen to the dumb Old Miss Hutchin you're not that old Miss Hutchins oh you are too sweet anyway you probably need to hurry up now school's already he started hasn't it I'll say this now but I noticed that sadness seems to be the emotion in which William's true self seems to come through the most almost like this is how he would canonically respond to things think back to the dead dog in deceased Nemesis in the mirror tutorial sadness is the empathetic choice and we'll come to discover in my opinion the sort of will Choice anger disgust scared and surprise lead to Miss Hutchins being taken aback the Music Stops and William responds with a cold H are you all right William I'm fine we note a dying potted plant and walk outside a dirty Crow I'm not going to scare it away I know why you're here these are crows carrying animals scavengers known for lingering over the remains of dead things and William knows why this particular caran bird is lingering over this place we are to dispose of this trash bag maybe I'm being uncharitable just because William has problems with empathy doesn't make him a cold-blooded murderer because after all If This Were a dead body he was disposing of the lingering Birds would only serve to ensure he got caught and that's not what William would want if he did kill somebody right keep this in mind for the strength ending ALS so take note that William doesn't want to scare the birds I think this speaks to an overall trait of his a respect for animals that breaks this sort of coldblooded psycho stereotype we examine the abandoned home across the street no one lives in that house anymore although derel the place is Charming in its own way we took Tanya there once so he knew Tanya hold on he said we took Tanya there who is we we don't yet know the nature natur of Father Lawrence's group or any friend groups that could possibly be the we in this sentence but keep this in mind nonetheless we unlock a pallet called nightly Comforts but hold on we seem to have already unlocked a pallet called Blue Rose this is one of many references to Twin Peaks one of which if you have any recollection of operation blue rose gives us a very interesting insight as to one of the minor themes of this game I won't say what Insight that that is though we might be spoiling who's Lyla but I will do no such thing in spoiling Twin Peaks here's what's interesting the first time us the viewer here of blue rose in the entirety of the Twin Peaks Cannon is in fir walk walk with me and we hear about it from a detective right after he decodes this secret message that secret message is portrayed by this mime act performed by someone named Lil l H I don't know probably just a coincidence now that I think about it blue rose is actually quite apt as we approach the bus stop we take a gander in our Journal our main task is to go to school but note we have the addresses for our school our home and the train station where we meet that mysterious telephone caller but for some reason we can't recall the address to the apartment building that was burned this bit of info needs to be discovered despite the fact that we will come to find out will should already know this address curious maybe a hint or perhaps just a barrier for gameplay progression reasons nonetheless our current task is to go to school so that is where we'll go we pick up another pallet from an empty trash can this trash can is empty wait a minute but how is it empty if something is already in there the pallet is called manful Soul not sure what this means I've still mulled over the possibilities perhaps this is commentary on some sort of d that will is you don't know what that's a reference to you don't know what that's a reference to I'm kind of doing a thing here what's with this Scottish accent it's a reference to manly bad's hero when he looks in an empty trash can he says empty just like my soul you don't know what that's a reference to usually you wait until after I upload the video to point out the things that go over my head but I I thought you had the nose of a r Veer why are you pronouncing Rottweiler like that you don't know what that's a reference to you don't know what that's a reference to detective what the hell is going on it's a reference to limi show where that Pub crawling Boomer interrupts sketches with his nonse takes you don't know what that's a reference to stay tuned folks this will get [Music] interesting oh jeez okay now we've reached Peak floppy coock where was I oh yes we enter the school we EES drop on a couple who will be recurring throughout our investigation Jay and Mandy Jay you know I cried today Mandy oh well returning to your old self I mean it's fine I cry all the time too no no it's it's not because of that I just you know I've been meditating for the past couple of months and today I've realized something yeah what was it like sad no I I couldn't stop giggling you know so what was it it's going to sound dumb but like I know now that all the thoughts you have in your head are really conflicts yeah the inner monologue and so on it's like thoughts are arguing with you yes yes but the thing is this you is really just these arguments if you look at them they disappear and when they disappear you disappear want to get some soda I think that creep is Eevees dropping this theme of your sense of self being made up of arguments or a system of syllogisms will come up again just in general mind F ego death philosophy will be a big theme in this game H hold on I'm going to jump the gun here a little bit and point out that this conversation Jay and Mandy are having in its sort of Mind Effy ego deathy motifs mirror almost perfectly a conversation lla will have with William so until we have the language to fully juxtapose Jay and Mandy to Lyla and William keep Jay's words in mind just don't don't don't dwell on them for too long though you are more than your thoughts and impulses okay okay I just don't know how to explain it leave the obliterated egos in philosophizing up to the hero Fant and high priestesses we should be like the fool ignorant and all the more wiser because of it we speak to a couple of unnamed students one gives us a hint about navigating the school the other makes note of the police outside examining the trophy case shows us accolades of Pablo Ramirez Tanya Kennedy and Martha Jennings the missing Tanya Kennedy seems to be an overachiever a nearby student laments that girls like Tanya have it so easy will come to find out that it's not that simple easy wouldn't be the right word to describe Tanya's life the student also calls Martha an airhead saying that she has to carry her spare keys in her purse in case she loses her apartment keys this information will be of use to us later I want to point out that this particular character model for this jealous student is short than the rest of the character models we interact with in this game she also has a very distinctive shortcut hairstyle I can't help but feel there's some sort of resemblance to a character that we'll see in another garage Heathen game I refer to her as the teachi girl and if this is the case there's some interesting significance to this character bleeding into who's Lila and showing some level of jealousy towards Tanya but sadly I'm speaking to you from the editing Suite it's too late in my investigation to be creating new theories but still this is something I feel like I needed to point out we take note of some students discussing an upcoming party likely at Matt's Place conveniently Matt is nearby so we talk to him hey man strange seeing you here finally decideed to catch up on your education yeah kind of you smiled the hell are you grinning about Mike's been looking all over for you you know why if I were you I'd stay away from school I'd watch my back will well that was rude but it was nice of him to give us a heads up about Michael we can re-explore this dialogue but most of them give us the same information responding with the disgusted face however leads to Matt calling us a freak this slur will be something that evidently plagues Will's life it's an odd contrast to how Matt treats us in a flashback sequence in the moon ending despite the hostility we will be facing with our friend group there was once a nicer more friendly earlier time something has changed causing our classmates and friends to be suspicious of us we enter a corridor with our lockers have you seen somebody put the da dog sticker on Matthew's Locker why did you store still sell that stupid dog merch especially after all those extremists started using it I wonder what those creeps want with the poor kid H so this da da dog cartoon has been coopted by local extremists and a sticker of this dog had been put on Matt's Locker I do do find it heartwarming that the student assumes that this sticker was placed by somebody else a bad faith actor and doesn't immediately jump to the conclusion that Matt himself endorses this group that co-opted this icon now if this sounds familiar that's because we've seen something similar happen with Pepe the frog in our world nonetheless keep this meme themer in themed memory in mind aside from examining Michael and Matt's Locker we can also examine Tanya's locker and wonder to ourselves where the key could be we will reveal this later we approach a cohort made up of our friend group will is that you hello everyone what the hell are you think you doing here Jimmy wait will Where Have You Been where's Tanya without noticing your face is stretching into his stupid grin huh Tanya he smiled I'm not joking will she hasn't been answering her phone she's not at home either her mom called us I think the police are involved or something because Martha's at the principal's office right now we'll make a surprised face for this one is she he made a surprised face it looked strange yeah yeah look man I know we didn't spend much time together lately but uh we really need everything you know about Tanya don't be so straightforward about it but yeah the gist of it is we're very worried about her will would you please just tell us where she is I swear I don't know why do you think I spent time with her anyways Martha's known for making up stuff that's not true yeah easy on the accusations look guys why are you so bothered by it anyways maybe she just needs some time alone your face remain neutral your friends seem to believe you it's so unlike her though dude whatever we've discussed it a thousand times already it's been 6 days something definitely happened to her look will I know we haven't hanged out too much lately but you have to know something something is very wrong I can feel it we all know you work together for a while behind Mike's back we don't judge you but we will have to know where she is will please I you her didn't you sorry you effed her didn't you what you effed you effed Tanya didn't you will on Matt's party Martha told us all about you too where is Martha by the way that's not important [ __ ] Jim the principal Jim the principal wanted to see here so will are you saying you don't know where Tanya is nope so Martha's at the principal now I think he's already finished with her big grave said he'd seen her on the Roof oh right he wanted to see you too by the way anyways what about good I'll be on my way then hey wait a minute will wait well no wonder our friends are being so cold to us this Martha is spreading all sorts of rumors God knows what she's been saying about will before confronting her let's explore the other chains of dialogue with this cohort responding in a strange or inappropriate manner such as with an angry face will cause our friends to reveal Martha's location immediately will then quickly moves on and doesn't pay the Cort any mind making us all the more suspicious here watch Tanya he made an angry face it looks strange yeah dude Tanya quit effing around do you know something well she's been missing for some time now Martha said you might know where she is oh so Martha said that huh yeah dude and now she's at the principal probably telling him the same thing right he wants to see you too by the way will well I'll be on my way then hey what the hell we aren't finished with will please wait I'm all for confronting a rumor spreader but something about the manner in which will is almost hunting for Martha is a bit off-putting keep in mind they mention not judging will or Tanya revealing that something about Will and Tanya's relationship was reproachable or taboo we explored to school a bit and stumble upon the entrance to the boiler rooms a key reveal can take place here but instead let's press on and focus on the task at hand going up the stairs we Face another Corridor exploring the classrooms takes us to random rooms we need to keep exploring until we find out where Martha is hold on so we know that Martha is chilling on the roof and yet when we try to go up there will tells us that he needs to find her keys and address first I don't know will you've been acting kind of sus lately we're looking for a fellow student named Ellie but before we Press On Let's explore the other random rooms we can stumble upon in one classroom we can find poorly executed physics homework and an energy drink there's also what I thought was a cup of coffee for some reason but it's actually a sort of tamagachi style toy which unlocks the pallet Tomo this is a reference to T your amazing Tachi one of the first games garage Heathen the developer of who Lila ever uploaded onto steam perhaps this is a tongue and cheek reference to garage Heathen stressfully trying to create the teachi game pounding energy drinks and trying to create a physics engine for the Falling Fruit this tamagachi parody character will play a minor role in understanding one of the more key frames and motifs of this broad story of the broader theme of this story The tomho pallet that we unlock actually ends up revealing something kind of interesting in the forest branch of endings we briefly explore an empty room and move on to the next one we see Jay and Mandy chatting again Mandy isn't it like scary I've heard all this destruction of selft talk but it's always sounded kind of creepy and edgy I wanted to try TPA mancy at some point but the very Prospect of losing myself to a TPA scared the crap out of me you know like kummer and oigi hello Gordon it's not about destruction Mandy all destruction all pain honestly comes from this uh divide I guess the self I mean the self is by its Essence a divide the moment you start dividing the inner and outer problems come how can you not do that though you have your body and mind so do I it's just so weird that we even do think that way inner outer are just words honestly so you have a bubble and you say it's your bubble and I have a bubble and I say it's mine uh-huh and they both pop and then suddenly it's just the air how can you say it's my air hey Jay I think he's here again yeah I know what the hell does he want I wonder probably best to not bother them this conversation mirrors very similarly to a conversation will and Lila have and we also unlock this new Narrative of tulpas so I have a question is Jay the tulpa of Mandy by the end of our investigation we will have long forgotten about Jay and Mandy but at the time I thought it was an interesting question here's the thing we may now think that we like we've unlocked this secret narrative oh tpas oh well let's go ahead start applying it to everything and see what we can discover but we should not gloss over the fact that we achiev this narrative Motif we've discovered it I should say very easily it's almost as if it was left there for us not necessarily as a red herring but as a distraction the value that we can get out of the TPA Motif will be the story of kummer and IGI I want to be thorough but I also want to be respectful to the viewer to many the story of kummer and uigi might just seem like a a story of somebody getting a bit too enthusiastic about this lar I guess but we do play with concepts of where the self starts and where the self ends what happens when those boundaries are blurred to some the Kumer and uigi story might be a little bit I don't know a bit too creepy so we're not going to dwell on it I'll give you the general story beats the ones that primarily apply to this story to explain the story of kummer and uigi I'll reference a post made on Reddit 7 years ago in r/ telpas telpas are a modern-day psycho mystical practice of manifesting an incorporeal imaginary being typically humanoid through the use of heavy concentration and thought exercises think of imaginary friends or even a mental manifestation of a future you when you think about yourself having completed a goal let's say a healthier richer or happier you in a way you are creating a tulpa of yourself but most stick to the imaginary friend aspect to tulpamancy kummer was a budding tulpamancer who frequented tulpa forums his TPA was uigi and it seemed that kummer was jumping into risky tulpamancy techniques too early in his practice allowing himself to be possessed by IGI kummer went by male pronouns was young and a bit awkward whereas uigi went by female pronouns and was headstrong a more assertive counter to Kumer according to this redditor it seemed cumer had taken to tulpamancy for a sadly similar reason some others do and that is to remove himself from his own body to make room for the TPA making her the main controller of the body I won't dwell on the why because it mirrors very closely to other very sensitive topics essentially you have kummer visualizing uigi over time kummer wants to become like IGI taking bits of himself out further reinforcing ogui in the meantime and eventually it comes to a point that all the pieces of cummer have been removed and and what's put inside is uigi now since the events of theory from my understanding Kumer is doing a lot better and how much of this is an ARG how much of this is a lar how much of this is legit I don't know but this concept keep this concept of cing yourself out to make room for this sort of persona in mind actually don't keep that in mind what did that say what a weird thing to say the Next Room takes us to some more homework on the left seems to be a textbook the philosopher Thomas Nagel posited in his 1974 paper what is it like to be a bat that it is incorrect to claim that something felt like the color red is the same as the impulses in the brain creating it he believes that subjectivity experiences are inexplainable at least scientifically because every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view and it seems inevitable that an objective physical Theory will abandon that so in the same way that you could never know what a bat truly experienced is you can't know what red is from the point of view of another person this goes beyond the whole what if your red is different from my red sort of question and more questioning the efficacy of trying to understand anything outside of the scope of our own point of view I'm not explaining this thoroughly enough but don't worry we will explore this far more thoroughly the concept of qualia and the hard problems of Consciousness later in this investigation on the right is some homework perhaps an essay derived from the book to our left the handwriting here is really horrible apart from Cher's other formulations of the hard problem of Consciousness include how is it that some organisms are subjects of experience why does awareness of sensory information exist at all why do qualia exist why is there a subjective component to experience why aren't we philosophical zombies what makes us conscious why does the subjective conscious experience or qualia exist my College Dropout self would say because that's how human brains are and now that I think about it uh another character in this story who is uh particularly unhinged would agree with me but he would go further in that line of thinking I would argue it's just part of our Hardware or software but this is a question whose possible answer will play an interesting role in the behind the scenes existential guts of this world it's ontology if you will don't worry if you are confused that's the point the story of this game will do a good job at explaining these Concepts through its narrative and they'll still be confusing but I believe I'll do a phenomenal job in in translating these ideas just you wait we also examine a pendant with a distinctive pattern on it an old pendant it's silver I like the pattern oh man everything just comes together now that now that I'm exploring this one final time everything's just coming together I'm sorry we also examine a pendant with a distinctive pattern on it this pattern will be seen again when we start to get more into the ARG aspects to this game ooh ooh o but keep it in mind keep its pattern in mind for this reason I'm of the mind that this homework we have been reading is Tanya's homework she's the owner of this book and homework so we can gather that Tanya herself has been wrestling wring with these ego deathy mind Effy Concepts much like Mandy and we will soon discover will as well with all of that we find Ellie Cooper oh hello hey there sorry do we know each other wait weren't you at the party um Matt's party about a month ago yeah we talked there remember she probably means the party at 2927 one Fair Fox Street you were there but you don't know who this is o that's very interesting that's this address that's mentioned opens up another location we can explore next time we use the bus stop opening up the moon ending one of the handful of flashback endings in this game sure I remember you you look scared you sure what's my name then that's F that's awesome oh that's so sick responding to her first question unconfident opens up a funny little Easter egg Laura Hayward is a reference to Laura Palmer and Donna Hayward from Twin Peaks massive massive quantities of of Twin Peaks references massive oh [ __ ] my bad um I'm sorry I said it's fine did you want something no I where's Martha jenning's classroom this looked really weird I looks almost frightened I'm sorry I don't feel comfortable talking to you could you leave please sure you feel you won't find out where Martha's classroom is hint check the autosave check the gild for more quests this is an example of a minor failure that can be remedied by a simply reloading the autosave responding with a smile gives us the most success note though that will doesn't know the name of Ellie but we do because we can read her name on the dialogue box these details are important one would benefit from keeping it in mind sure I remember you you smiled Ellie believes you how have you been Have You Heard by the way that girl I was with at the party Tanya Tanya Kennedy nobody seems to know where she is is that so uh-huh I've seen the police car outside and it's a secret but Martha Jennings is at the principal's now what's your classroom number by the way Martha's it's wait why are you asking she isn't even there right now anyways responding with a sad face leads us to some pretty funny dialogue you made a sad face this looked a bit weird you okay has something happened between you two she looks like the gossipy type you decide to put on a show no I mean how could she she's been avoiding me for all these days yes we broke up but poor Kennedy's missing we have to talk I I wait you dated you did not oh but it's a secret I need to see her honestly oh I get it of course of course I understand it's 43 sier the door near this one actually we get Martha's keys and discover her address we proceed up the stairs this muscular anatomy chart hides another pallet I miss it in this go around but we will return on the roof we finally meet our dear friend Martha examining some food next to her gives us this funny bit of dialogue junk food for breakfast I wonder if she's insane hello Martha me the sad face Martha looks frightened I uh what are you doing here will I wanted to talk to you about something Martha have you been to the principles no I know you have what do you want will I know you were the last person to see Tanya that's all do you think we don't know what happened between you two what was happening between you two I mean have you talked to the officers yet why do you answer yes yes I did but I didn't tell them much yet oh this is interesting note the Bold text around the word answer this is the first time we're coming across this bold text Motif so keep it in mind it's going to be a huge part of how I frame a lot of the more psychological aspects of this mystery yes yes I did but I didn't tell them much yet I think a certain detective wants to see me tomorrow name I don't know I can only remember it's Asian something like detective youu I'm not sure anyways why do you it's really not good to spread rumors Martha that's a sign of a very very bad friend what what are you talking about are you all right what's going on William well I'll tell you what's going on Mart hey [ __ ] Tanya's hot-headed boyfriend Michael Graves also known as Big Graves steps in I want to take a moment to appreciate his theme music it's not tense it's distant and Scrappy almost reminding me less of high stakes conflicts and more of a youthful Clash like something you'd see in the movie like Sandlot there is a moment we hear an owl call a minute and 20 seconds into the song this is the first time that we would be hearing this owl [Music] Motif so on top of the animal of dogs keep this motif of the owl in mind once we figure that Motif out its placement in Michael's theme is kind of odd oh hi m M you smiled it looked very friendly Mike can see her trying to pacify him he relaxes a bit we got to talk man well let's talk then Mike was that why you were looking for me this morning where's Tanya how would I know that Mike you made a surprised face Mike tenses up where the f is my girlfriend I'm not sure I know what you're talking about yeah right first she gets with you behind my back next thing I know she's missing a whole effing week dude it just can't be that you don't effing know we didn't have a thing you know you made an angry face this looked sincere Mike is almost confused the hell do you mean Martha told me she's lying about us I'm not you know what we hate most in this company we hate rats isn't that right Graves Mike is confused dude quit it Martha's a friend she'd never lied to us right of course I wouldn't why are you doing this will I've seen you two at the party when you know and I know Tanya went with you and that's when you both disappeared why won't you tell us what happened I just don't think I can trust you guys he made a sad face Mike's trying to compose himself look man I know you've had your issues with showing emotions and empathy and stuff and that we had our differences but please you know I love this girl please tell me what you know will I don't know anything you made a sad face Mike seems a little calmer really yes look Mike I'm I'm as worried as you are I know you guys don't like me that much but we're all in this together we'll find Tanya don't worry about it the universe has a plans for all of us don't give me that crap I'm not forgiving you too for what you did behind my wait what did you say I said we'll find Tanya no after that you said the universe has better plans for you you did didn't you that's what she always said you're doing this on purpose aren't you freaking freak so is that how you were planning on finding out where she is by calling me a freak I knew I couldn't trust you Graves what so you just tricked me you you did didn't you you ah well that's not what I intended this takes us down the forest ending Branch I rather save this for later it seems going the overly sympathetic route causes you to step on a major eggshell and Michael straight up kills us which is weird reminding him of something Tanya would say doesn't seem like it would cause even a hot head like Graves to kill us perhaps being pushed off the edge was an accident notice we achieve this by going the overly empathetic sympathetic sadness route perhaps this is an accident will intended perhaps to avoid what's going to happen as we press on with the interrogation ending branch keep this in mind throughout this game we're going to discover that sadness and empathy are sort of the motifs of Will's true self on the flip side of being overly empathetic if we go overly cruel we get the same response starting from the beginning maintain confidence with neutral responses up until this dialogue so you're going to keep going neutral keep going neutral and you're going to say I don't think I can trust you guys with an angry face face you made an angry face Mike is getting more pissed what's with the face you want to go bro Mike I can crush you like a worm you can't be serious dude I'll effing Crush you any follow up to your words are you for real what have you forgotten the last time you tried to fight me do you mean that time when you saw me walking home with Tanya was that trying to fight in your eyes it wasn't like that freak don't try to make a victim out of yourself Martha's almost crying well please I'm asking you just tell him tell him what you know he's not that bad you have to understand how painful it is for him I know you've had your differences but too bad I think smile at this point I don't know anything you smiled Mike is even more pissed now Also Mikey talking about differences I don't think the way you and your pathetic friends pick on me every time I stumble on you I don't think the word differences is a good way to put it for all I know t may be very likely lying strangled in some ditch near School kind of like Malcolm you know oh my Mike looks Delirious you you how dare you cute eyes cute eyes he had our little Malcolm but I don't think I'll miss the kid at the end of the day you got closer to Tanya because of his death didn't you I guess you almost I guess you must have been over the moon when he I'll kill you Mike wait jeez no wonder Michael is so messed up his little brother was brutally killed and what's with this fixation on eyes you see when I first came across the scene I thought maybe will had murdered Malcolm and kept his eyes in his medicine cabinet as a trophy but as I said before we will learn that those are likely mushrooms and once we get a more solid timeline we'll find out that Will's introduction to Tanya's friend group was long after Malcolm was killed but keep poor little Malcolm graves in mind we won't have a better understanding of the details of his fate until we get into the more ARG aspects of this game hello Martha you smiled Martha looks frightened ah really why playing mean and aggressive gets us this dialogue oh hi Mike he made an angry face this made Mike more alert he tenses up I've been looking for you where's T was that why you were looking for me this morning cut the crap where is she how would I know that Mike you made an angry face Mike's demeanor stays the same don't pretend you're tough look if you don't want me to beat the crap out of you you better start talking calm down Graves what are you a what are you a child you do realize you'll get in trouble for violent Behavior again well that's new what are you going to tell on me look buddy I don't care much at this point I'll eing quit school if it means finding Tanya would you go to court too the f are you talking about the cops are here isn't that so Martha I talked to the police officer today yeah they must still be here I said I don't give a crap Tanya's gone and she went missing after she went to your place Martha told us that's not true you smiled this looked weird Mike tenses up yeah right where is she freak I don't even care if she cheated I I just need to know she's fine first we didn't hook up though you smiled Mike tenses up yeah right you ass as if I can't see you smiling look man I don't even give an f by now just tell me where she is I can't I can't effing deal with it damn Mike are you okay you know I'm really starting to think you really were not the best partner for Tanya even if I had information I don't think it would be the best idea to share it with you buddy Mike is furious the F did you just say I just don't think I can trust you Mike you smiled Mike is pissed are you making fun of me you think this is effing funny look you freak I'm going to give you one last chance if you don't your stupid threats don't scare me bro you've been rambling about beating me up for like but all I see is bark and no bite huh oh yeah punk big Graves why are you listening to them he's just provoking you will do you want to get hurt why are you doing this because he's just a chicken he can't even so This Is Us baking Michael into beating us up and it can help us make our case in the upcoming interrogation giving us the better variant of one of the many variations of the Judgment ending I have to get up playing scared and meek gets us this dialogue I said I don't know you look scared I'm not sure you're aware William but I happened to know about that little thing you did with Tanya behind my back I and the only thing keeping me from tearing your fing head off is the fact you know where she is now do you know know where she is tell me buddy Mike is now sure you're too scared to defend yourself I really don't know you look scared well I guess there's just one thing left to do buddy Mike please wait come here punk Mike is sure you're defenseless this is your chance so graves's response to Will's meekness is violence and we uncharacteristically not only fight back but win we'll stick with this as our conflict resolution for this playthrough also we pick up on a pallet hidden behind behind the poster the one I missed before it looks like a skull in this secret compartment after some cursory online searching this seems to be a reference to the game brutal Orchestra let's take inventory we responded empathetically in the mirror tutorial so all three endings are still in play however we beat up Michael one thing I just realized is whether we lose in our fight or win in our fight against Michael doesn't actually determine our ending however it does determine one of the various micro variations of the Judgment ending with Martha's address unlocked we head over but notice we have the location for Matt's party unlocked too we wait for somebody to come by and let us into the apartments since we don't have a code when we're let in the tenant wants to know why we are there responding aggressively we threaten the tenant he darts off but he'll certainly alert the authorities suddenly the screen is red my fear seems to be coming true will is hunting Martha we wait in her closet we examine her hanging garments underwear drying they produce an indecent smell of wet fabric does this girl have any shame we also note her unmade bed will says such a bad girl Martha's bed the sheets are unmade such a bad girl keep this in mind we then note what looks to be a poster of blue velvet the movie directed by David Lynch one of the more famous scenes in the movie is the protagonist hiding in a closet while some high strangeness and disturbing scenes take place on the other side of the threshold much like how we are hiding in this closet blue velvet by David Lynch the only cool thing in this apartment who's there will almost correct there Miss Jennings what are you you smiled have you come to [Music] wait Tanya is that you huh Tanya remember this sweetheart the name is lla lla we're playing as lla that form we briefly transformed into is lyla's character model we'll get a better look later in the game but that is her and also Martha mistakes us for Tanya in that moment of brief transformation so even if the detail of lla being on the missing poster for Tanya was ignored this is our first detail that Lila and Tanya look very similar the following scene is quite distressing and drawn out so we won't dwell on it but I want to note these particular moments in in this scene will or I guess lla beats then strangles Martha then there is a moment where Martha is heard screaming before being attacked but is it her screaming this sound effect of muffled screaming will come back up once again but I want to point this out while we were hiding in the closet waiting for Martha to come along so that we could eventually murder her we were referring to her as a very naughty girl or a very dirty girl this detail and this motif of the muffled screaming I think link together and link to a character that we have yet to meet so keep these motifs in mind towards the end of this death scene Martha's face transforms this could be some of that lynchi and strangeness but you can see sharp canine like Teeth protruding from the mouth actually now that I think about it is this supposed to be some sort of flashback to the dead dog Motif like what was mentioned in the mirror tutorial or those screaming do dogs from the fridge I'm not sure but it's odd and grotesque nonetheless I'm starting to realize that these motifs regarding dogs are not simply dogs but dead dogs distressed crying dogs that are in danger so keep that motif of dead dogs in actually don't don't don't think about dead dogs what am I doing what am I making you do what Am I who am I lla jumping the gun here spoiler alert we've unlocked the next layer to this mystery we are not simply playing as will but lla in Will's body there's more to it than that but right now that's what we know in blue velvet the protagonist sits inside the closet seeing the antagonist of the story doing something disturbing messed up and strange and in our story I can't help but wonder if William is sort of symbolically still in this closet seeing lla through his own body do these heinous things no wonder he wants to be let back in but alas the col goes back to normal and we take the bus home what just happened is another key sequence that determines our ending since we responded empathetically to the mirror tutorial and weren't discreet in the murder of Martha we are barred from the Judgment ending but Justice and strength are still in play I'll explain the mechanics when we finish our first ending the police stop us as we approach our home they seem to be searching the dumpster where we dumped our trash hey hold it sir wait is your name William Clark yeah that's me hey Ted Ted yes I think we found the kid William Clark right yeah that's me you'll have to come with us Bud get in the car please in this interrogation we're going to play it confidently relying on neutral and smiling emotions a Cloudy Mirror it has a weird tint to it am I being watched just an empty table hey Will I'm detective Hutchins we talked a couple hours ago remember now William I'm going to ask you a couple of questions okay okay do you know why you're here no I don't you were face made neutral your confidence level increased all right now you are William Clark correct yes that is correct your face remain neutral you've been read your rights before right no never you've probably seen it in the movies he reads you your rights oh I forgot to ask you do you want water or anything no thank you sir you smile all right now well I have a photograph here do you know who this is in the photograph yes that's Tanya Kennedy your face remained neutral what was your relationship with her we didn't know each other well I see could you elaborate did you say hello to each other did you talk sometimes we talked yeah what did you talk about I don't know music and stuff I don't remember just normal things did you have any mutual friends you smiled I'm not sure well Martha Jennings is one of my friends I think she and T were rather close so Martha Jennings is your friend all right now well you've said before that you weren't too close to Miss Kennedy correct yes the thing is we already have talked to some of your friends today Martha Jennings was one of them she seemed to tell me that you and Tanya have become rather close some time ago could you tell me why she told us so I don't know well you need to be very genuine the stakes are very high you see the real reason we invited you here is because Tanya Kennedy is missing she's been missing for more than 5 days she is you look scared yes I thought you knew that at least that's what your friend said when Hutchin says at least that's what your friend said there are a few paths we can take being angry while confident leads to this dialogue you made an angry face they aren't my friends come again they aren't my friends they hate my guts all of them how come I don't know it's cuz I'm Different in what way are you different you know in what way I don't care about stupid stuff they talk about I don't wear fancy clothes I'm smart finally you know my face I see so how does this hate Express itself well for the most part they just act like I wasn't there you know they'd call me names freak weirdo classic stuff School kids what else would they do hide my stuff destroy things I own steal from me I wouldn't be surprised if they I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to frame me for something they've done to Tanya you made an angry face you're agitated the de the detective seems to have noticed that they were pretty sure when they said it was you we're good at detecting lies we've talked to Martha Jennings she's lying I'm telling you she's always done that let me guest they all just sat there with their stupid faces as if they were worrying maybe some tears eh no effing way it's me it's [ __ ] will I wouldn't be surprised if they effing murdered her like those daada weirdos hell some of them could be part of that daada group now calm down calm down William I hear you no need to be agitated we're here to talk and figure out all those things out but you do realize they're friends with Michael Graves and that daada are a right extrem and that Dada are the right extremists so it's basically nonsensical for any of them to be part of it pear that you would know about that group at all where have you learned about it the internet where else all right this isn't very important anyways let's change the topic for now so this Dada group of extremists wouldn't want to associate with Michael likely because of his skin color we also get some insight into the level of bullying that will has to go through going back to that diverting dialogue path getting angry while not confident will lead to a similar dialogue regarding the bullying classmates but more in detail regarding the names that they would call will freak is a common slur that is used against will If instead of being angry about our so-called friends we show non-hostile emotions while still confident we get this dialogue sure did you have sex no your friends State otherwise you smiled those are just rumors I swear we didn't well that is understandable don't get all work worked up I know how kids are sometimes did you talk after the party no we stopped that's why I didn't know she was missing until now and why did you stop talking I don't know I just kind of happened did you two have a fight no why do you think you stopped talking well she must have felt guilty why do you think that you said you didn't have sex we kissed but it was weird why I'm sorry if it sounds strange it just felt wrong like it wasn't really her I was kissing but a I don't know an effigy of someone else I knew or something I'm not sure I understand what you mean William sorry it's hard to explain you smiled we get confirmation that although Will and Tanya didn't have sex they did KISS at some point after which he thinks that she felt guilty so you're saying you did not talk with Tanya at all after that yes sir how did your friends react I'm not really sure sir I didn't see them much after that either you did not go to school correct yeah here to explain why I don't know sir I just uh I guess I couldn't bear all the rumors and was it connected to her boyfriend at the time Mike oh yeah that's the main reason actually were you afraid that he'd do something to you yes yes sir he's been in trouble for his violent behavior before so it seems officer Hutchins has heard something he was suspecting before his stares become more intense did those two have any fights recently well sir I'm not sure they did at the party what happened there was it because you kissed no even before that something happened between them before no doubt can you tell me exactly what you've seen it seems like will is trying to set Michael up in this dialogue he gives an account of Michael being violent at a party will'll come to find out that his account isn't entirely true if Will lost the fight against Michael on the roof he shows the detective fresh bruises but if we beat up Michael instead we show past injuries from the Calamity you show the officer of the bruis that you acquired at the day of the Calamity we will come to learn what This calamity was H these look old he did shove you pretty bad didn't he we had a talk with Mr Graves earlier today he does seem very eager to put the blame on you William before we continue the interrogation be sure to remind us to give you a lift home so that nothing bad happens to you all right thank you very much sir now William I will leave the room and another officer will come to talk to you we say goodbye to Harold Cooper and say hello to Rachel madow no this is detective fiser the bad cop to Hutchins good cop all right now I don't have much time my name is detective fiser spit it out kid you know why you're here right this is where the part you don't like begins I still don't know why I'm here your face remains neutral well I think you do Let me refresh your memory Tanya Kennedy your former friend she's missing all right now we know for sure you have something to do with it there's no question there so you better start talking what should I talk about you smiled first of all when did you last see her I don't remember must have been uh more than a month ago more than a month huh save those fairy tales for Ted when I told you about a month ago you made an angry face and where was that well um we hung out near my house where the exact place please an abandoned building it used to be a condominium I think weird place to hang out at huh the building across the street where we unlocked the nightly Comforts pallet that makes sense the Wii when we said that's where we took Tanya meant will and Lila we both so then that would mean that Laya was present within will during that little date the question is how far back does lla influence on will go did lla and will work together to hurt Tanya or was the Kumer and uigi reference a hint of a takeover by lla of Will's body and she solely hurt Tanya what did you two do there I don't know we just hung out and talked what was your relationship with this girl but officer Hutchins asked that but officer Hutchins asked that already look here bud I don't think you get what's happening right now you're in a police office I am interrogating you you are in big trouble already there's that bold text again you're in big trouble already so the Bold text we've heard so far is answer Tanya and you're in big trouble already aside from the Tanya we have a pretty interesting parental Motif going on with the bolt text every time the Bold text comes back up with maybe like two or three exceptions we can link it somewhat to a parental character or sorry a paternal character I guess paternal and parental mean the same thing when lla responds to Martha in front of the closet saying Tanya right before saying the name is Lila Tanya is in bold and I could really try and figure out how maybe Tanya fits into this whole thing but the fact is we'll come to find out that Will's mother died before will ever met Tanya so there's no way that any paternal character should know about Tanya actually I'm wrong about that yeah no I think for sure yeah this bold okay all right just keep this Motif in mind let's keep our minds open throughout this game about this Motif but not too open tulpa repellent is getting pretty expensive with the supply chain issues you are in big trouble already so I recommend you just answer my questions and stop effing around do we have an understanding yes sir so let me ask you one more more time what was your relationship with Tanya Kennedy we were friends your face remained neutral his face changes so friends he seems to be lost in thought now listen carefully we found a female torso in the trash near your apartment a torso was that what was in the trash bag was that what the farmand saw was used for perhaps the spilled beer was meant to ask a smell or something maybe create an explanation as to why he may have scrubbed the place clean what you look scared he ignores your reaction the boys are doing the DNA test right now as we speak but I'm pretty sure we both know who the Torso belongs to I don't I did you do it I'm just straight up asking you because there's no doubt in my mind about whose work it is I didn't do it you look scared you do realize she has a family right don't you want her mom and dad to have at least a little comfort knowing where the remains of their girl are are you sure it's it's her are you stupid I told you we know now tell me where the other parts are you hid them well didn't you but you got lazy with the last one didn't think we'll find it I did you use the saw that's in your apartment used used for what your face remains neutral don't play dumb if we find even a little bit of DNA on that saw I'm sure we will in your effed William because even if you wash the blood off you still have the little things like fibers also if the bone was cut we can identify the exact instrument just by the marks on the bone it's absolutely precise we can find out everything about it up to the specific model of the instrument used might as well tell me how you did it I didn't please will it's no use now I'll tell you something an old friend of mine used to say of all the people in the world the best and the worst are drawn to the dead dog most turn away only those with the purest of heart can feel its pain I know you aren't a bad guy William I know you can feel the pain of others can't you we have tough we screwed up huh I screwed up here we didn't pass the confidence threshold so we were just about to get the strength ending detective Fisher's allegory of a dead dog I believe is a hint that the mirror tutorial is the key to maintaining a pure heart and getting the strength ending of course we already know this but this should be your hint on your first playthrough let me reload so we can continue with the needed confidence for the Justice ending I know you aren't a bad guy William I know you can feel the pain of others can't you I didn't do it Sir William Clark you don't get it do you William friend buddy we have the evidence you little effer you effed up you effed up and left your fingerprints all over her well guess what that's enough information for for us to decide who the culprit is you remember him talking about the DNA test not being done yet and you made sure William wore gloves it's not me okay hold on so it's no mystery now this is lla having this internal dialogue that we the player are experiencing and according to this dialogue will who she refers to in the third person did Kill Tanya making sure that William wore gloves but does that exactly mean that William in his own Consciousness and agency killed Tanya hm we don't have all the details yet but regardless this is messed up on many levels it's not me I told you we know it's you it's not a question of who but of how and why so tell me buddy why'd you do it I didn't do it your face remain neutral this probably looked convincing then who did it will I don't know you don't know do you unfortunately will there's about two ways this can go first you quit effing around and tell me who you're trying to protect second you get to be the one to hold full responsibility and let me and let me remind you we're talking first-degree murder here William are you sure you don't want to open up just tell me the name Buddy this might be your chance it's the name is before we press on with this flashback sequence this is another sound effect I want us to pay attention [Music] to it's like the combination of electricity and a film reel clicking this is the most present and enigmatic and my in my opinion the most significant of the auditory motifs in this game and even at this point I don't exactly know what it means memes huh I have an idea but not nearly as as solid of an idea that than I do with the owl muffling SC with everything else basically and for all those Twin Peaks season 3 specifically fans don't worry no spoilers do you know what this audio reminds me of that still gives me the creeps it's like the sound of an unsolved mystery don't worry we won't be having this issue with this video if I do a good job what we see is a flashback to Will and Tanya chilling barely dressed in that abandoned house what it seems you were talking about something it's warm and look even William has his name in the dialogue window William but aren't you aren't you lla Tanya Kennedy huh what was that you said aren't you lla what if this is a joke I don't get it who's lla interesting note the dialogue window that says it seems you were talking about something this might be the moment that Lyla first enters will she's not able to recollect what they were talking about it's almost like William's Despair and Tanya's uttering the phrase who Lila brings for fourth lla the picture will be clearer over time let's press on so will the bruises you showed us earlier that's Michael Graves who gave it to you hey Ted I think they want to see you oh Fisher we got some news there's been a murder at birwood no way is it is it the one we talked to today we don't know if it's Miss Jennings yet a tenant called in his name was mie I think a kid we have a lot to talk about [Music] nice to meet you Lila I'm special agent U FBI do we know each other oh yes we most certainly met before I must have for gotten what do you want you see I've been studying you very intently Lyla I too have questions i' like to ask you what for at the end of the day I'd like to find out who you are you amuse me detective you really are nothing like those fools wait you really are nothing like those fo it's oh it's over I figured it out oh yes you really are nothing like like those fools you seem to keep your eyes open oh I expect an Exquisite Feast please ask away we aren't going to talk here lla meet me at a familiar place a place you use for saving I'll be waiting detective you the fellow Who Martha mentioned is aware of Lila's presence and he asks us to meet him where we save our game this has turned meta to a level I wasn't expecting before we meet detective youu it's about time I gave you the rundown on how the interrogation ending works so in the murder of Martha there are two factors that determine which ending you get in the interrogation Branch if you scare off the tenant or respond to Martha with a sad face allowing her to scream the authorities get notified that night and discover her body that night during your interrogation if you fool the tenant and Martha remains quiet you don't get caught during the investigation I'm sure eventually will does get caught though so the Justice ending is obtained by messing this entire sequence up but the strength ending is achieved by responding empathetically in the mirror and in the interrogation with fiser breaking under the pressure not maintaining confidence and the Judgment ending and all of its different micr variations just account for everything else here's what's interesting is that strength overrides all of of the endings even if you kill Martha you're sus all the way through so long as you are empathetic in the mirror tutorial and break under confidence you will get the strength ending that overrides everything but if you don't break or you happen to be sussy in the mirror if you messed up in the murder of Martha you get the Justice ending and then of course if you don't qualify for either of these it's sort of like a Pachinko thing it all goes down into judgment lla mentions you keeping his eyes open this symbology will be apparent very soon enough and she mentions a feast keep this in mind notice how the eye on the save game for you's office is open unlike the closed eyes in the other saves you found me good job hello again detective now Lyla let me tell you what I've gathered so far so as far as I'm aware you are the one responsible for the deaths of two girls now Tanya Kennedy was the girl that looked just like you so why is that I guess we may never know detective well if that's the game you want to let's do it I'm a sucker for Mysteries like yours is that so the way your story goes doesn't seem to make sense though there seems to be no continuity half of the time I'm not even sure whether it's today tomorrow or a month ago it is delightful to see your optimism detective oh well enough chitchat please pick a card so a place where we first first met you might not know it but I've been watching you intently lla from the point William woke up in his apartment right until the end so did it help you not yet I'm still not quite sure if I'm being frank I have almost no damn idea about what happened before or after this day I appreciate your bluntness detective does it feel right that William is most likely going to be prosecuted I'm I'm not sure you see at that point I didn't know William that well to be quite honest with you I feel a bit cheated I'm not sure if the way it ended was the victory of good or a terrible mistake too bad detective not unlike me you don't seem to be easily satiable maybe we could talk over some more cards sure we seem to have exhausted the cards to talk about we can go over them again if you'd like but we don't have to detective U reflects our feelings we're happy that the perpetrator of Martha and Tanya's deaths is put to justice but there's something off about it some sort of lack of closure like evil got away with doing something evil and just left its leftovers as a Psy for the consequences and again lla mentions something about being sated easily what her sustenance truly is will be a key component of her nature and unraveling the mystery of not only lla but the game who's lla right now though it seems that she enjoys attention and suffering with the completion of the Justice ending we get some pretty heft reveals first of all we're not really playing as will I guess we're playing as lla or at least lla possessing Will's body this would make it totally possible for that mysterious caller on the cell phone to be will asking lla to let him back in perhaps let him back into his body this should also explain why certain details aren't known to yla like the state of Will's friendships how long Tanya has been missing the address of the apartment building that was burnt down these are bits of information will knows about but Lyla doesn't we will have a better understanding of this Gap in Lila's knowledge when we fully go into the timeline exploring flashbacks and whatnot another big reveal is the meta nature of this game detective U asks us to meet him in the place we save as enigmatic as detective U is characters like Martha lla and detective fiser already have a pre-existing knowledge of Det protective you and yet officer Hutchin doesn't also while we're here what are the significant links between the Justice ending and the Justice tarot card obviously will is caught and held accountable for his crimes Justice is served and this is because of Martha's shouts and the tenants shrewdness and this is interesting because the upright Justice card signifies a need for an attention to detail and not letting any minute thing be overlooked this can actually apply to both us the player if we want to achieve an ending other than Justice look at every detail why did you get caught this time or of course the attention to detail that the tenant had to show in scrutinizing Will's intentions if the Justice card is reversed in Tarot Arcana it can signify one being in denial so naturally an upright Justice card could also be signifying in honesty with oneself we don't hide the crime we committed against Martha unlike what we'll end up doing in the Judgment ending we don't try to shift blame or frame other characters in this story so as we go into the next two interrogation Branch endings well and for the rest of the game to be honest with you keep this concept in mind of Will and Lila battling it out over control of his body and given the meta nature of this game are we the player also a potential battler in this battle probably a better way I could have ordered that detective flaw peacock nice to meet you I'm detective viewer please have a seat viewer is that Icelandic Russian I need your help in answering a single question who's Lyla okay first of all get that question out of your head we're going to learn the answers that question very naturally we should be priming our minds for the real questions like what happened to Tanya why did what happened to Tanya happen where's William who's controlling our character are we the player a character in this story who is the prince who is the stranger the empress the emperor to all these questions there is a simple answer but attached to each answer is a fungal outcropping of what ifs and maybe but first I'm going to need to get myself a peanut butter Shaker yeah I've never heard of a diner with patio seed and the dossier tells me that you don't even like milkshakes so why are we even here oh you'll see just wait good morning gentlemen welcome to Shakers can I get get you get something to started with a with a drink maybe one of our worldclass milk shakers I'm going to take the peanut butter mocha Shaker please great choice and you detective give me the Rump Shaker we actually discontinued that shaker okay fine the thug Shaker give me the thug Shaker I'll be right back with your drinks what really is that why we're eating here okay I go out on a limb to make you laugh I throw some dumb things little here and there normally you like that stuff it's a dead meme I ought to arrest you for that alone is it though see I'm laughing at your dumb hat what are you even wearing it's an Armenian Tas old carpet is taken and made into these lovely [Music] hats to prove to you that it wasn't my hat that made you laugh I'm going to place it right over here on the floor and I guarantee you're still going to enjoy this evening don't put it on the floor that's not necessary come on it's made from carpet it's used to being on the floor [Music] now since we've chosen the empathetic options in the mirror tutorial regarding the dog and the dead enemy all we need to do is reload our safe and focus on lowering our confidence this is done by consistently choosing sadness as our emotion do you know why you're here we're going to now try to focus on lowering our confidence so we're going to be choosing sad options no I don't you make a sad face you didn't look very confident your confidence level decreased the detective may have noticed that all right now you are William Clark correct yes this is correct he made a sad face you've been read your rights before right no never you've probably seen it in the movies he reads you your rights oh forgot to ask do you want any water or anything no thank you sir you make a sad face what's with your face expressions William I'm sorry I'm just not very good with showing emotions it's fine pardon if I'm being insensitive but have you ever been diagnosed as a neurode Divergent no have you been evaluated by a neurologist no never gotcha huh a police officer that's knowledgeable about neurodiversity somebody cooking turkey cuz uh it's uh it's pretty based you know back in my day we used to call things fire and dope based Bas based on what all right now well I have a photograph here do you know who this is in the photograph yes that's Tanya Kennedy you made a sad face the officer had noticed that something wrong kid you look frightened I I I don't know I'm just afraid that I'll say something wrong what do you mean by that I don't know I'm afraid I'll say something that will make you think I did something wrong what was your relationship with her we didn't know each other very well you made a sad face this looked weird officer Hutchin acts as though he didn't notice I see could you elaborate did you did you just say hello to each other or did you talk sometimes we talked yeah what did you talk about this feels genuine it doesn't seem like an act that lla is putting on remember how I said that sad responses are more will likee perhaps when we choose the sad choices this allows for this Avatar to channel through will keep watching entering this second phase of the first interrogation with low confidence gives us a pretty interesting bit of information regarding William's mother did you talk after the party no we stopped that's why I didn't know she was missing until now and why did you stop talking I don't know it it just kind of happened did you two have a fight no why do you think you stopped talking well I guess she just thought I was boring I might not be the best person to hang around and why is that I don't know I guess I was just born that way it's kind of always been like that always huh have you been a lonely kid at school yeah I didn't have friends never really didn't you have friends when you were young it's usually easier to make friends when you're a kid not really just my mom are you on good terms with your mom now she passed away sir I understand did it happen a long time ago it's been 3 years now sir must have been tough yes sir I felt impossible to Bear after a while can you tell me more about her she was great honestly she cared a lot about me a bit too much at times how's that well she'd meet me from school until I was about 12 she always knew what was up with me was very strict about my grades but that's cuz she loved me you made a sad face she did do some strange things sometimes but that's I guess that's just because she felt lonely what things would that be will when my mom had a thing that I was not allowed to date until 16 I was friends with the girl that I kind of you liked her right yeah her name was Annie did your mom know yeah yes she did she didn't like that obviously she started talking to me a lot about her trying to convince me that I shouldn't be interested in girls yet or something that could have been true I mean how old were you 15 so what happened at some point she stopped with her lectures I thought she was finally cool with my choices until until I brought Annie to our house and what did your mother do she asked if she could talk to us we said yes so she sat us across the table and and she she started saying nasty things disturbing shameful things about me and about her some of them were true some made up I I remember I started crying begging her to stop and she just sat there talking monotonously her eyes fixed at Annie she kept repeating Annie you are such a naughty naughty girl and Annie wouldn't talk to me after that I thought I'd never forgive mom you know but I guess when you live with somebody you always forgive them at some point that sounds terrible will life must have been hard with a parent like this no no I she protected me you know I guess she just wanted to be the only one I cared about I think that's normal for a human isn't it can I ask you how she died I can't remember too much for some reason I just know one day there was a problem with the piping she went down to fix it and you can't speak further it's all right will sorry I just I just really miss her sir let's change the topic for now Will's mom is at the very least overbearing and emotionally abusive but it's much likely that the abuse is a lot worse and there's that bold text again keep this in mind with the exception of the Tanya quote the sort of wreak of an overbearing Twisted parent you are in big trouble already you've been a naughty girl all these strange grotesque the bolt text means something and I think we hit we hit something with the with the parental or the sorry the paternal Motif while we're at it let's also keep the mother and her effect on William in mind as well we'll get a lot more of a clear picture once we get the Reversed Empress ending let's change the topic for now now I'm not going to grill you about this but I know you've been part of a certain Gathering the Lawrence fraternity ring any bells yes sir is this something you are comfortable talking about yes sir even if I wasn't you'd be interrogating me anyways wouldn't you so please ask away right now I'll just need a couple of details first when was it exactly you enrolled June 11th sir but I've been helping out father Lawrence for a while before I was actually initiated all right then what was the mission of the group did you try to con as many people as possible not really sir actually it seemed that only father's closest circles were allowed in as for the end goal I was never told what it was or if there was one it seems I was too low of a tier no chance to get higher in the hierarchies now since the the fire tell me more about that please you weren't present when it happened right yes sir why it must have been a group meeting I was at home ill a migraine is there anyone there to confirm that hm Yes actually miss Hutchin our conier was kind enough to come and check on me oh so Dorothy's all right we'll check on that now William I'll leave the room and another officer will come and talk to you oh I forgot about this dialogue we circumvented it when we pinned our bruises on Michael so June 11th is the day that William is inducted into the cult the fraternity of Lawrence will reveals to the detective that he stayed in during the fire so just simply based on this information alone we know that William was a part of the cult while the fire was taking place remember when we showed our bruises to the detective if you let Michael beat you up on the roof you'll show the detectives the bruises from the fight but if you beat Michael up or just skip the fight alt together which that's something that you can do you'll show the detectives the bruises or scars from the Calamity I assumed that This calamity was the fire on no November 12th but William reveals to the detectives that he wasn't there for the fire so how would he get injured from a fire he wasn't present for the Calamity must be something entirely different we'll skip to the part where our confidence levels or lack thereof matter please will it's no use now I'll tell you something an old friend of mine used to say of all the people in the world the best and the worst are drawn to the dog most turn away only those with the purest of heart can feel its pain I know you aren't a bad guy William I know you can feel the pain of others can't you no oh please don't make me no no it's just not she didn't she wasn't even scared when we when I I killed her I killed her sir I killed Tanya Kennedy thank you will you did a good job just now oh oh God so we confess our crimes the only way we can achieve this ending is by reacting to the an enemy with a sad expression and the premier way to maintain low confidence is to make sad faces in this interrogation the obvious interpretation is that by choosing the empathetic choices in the mirror Will finds the strength for his true self to break through and rest control from Laya confessing the crimes that he committed so one could argue that these empathetic choices and sympathetic emotions like sadness and fear are the sort of true will choices and loosens the grip of the more cynical and dastardly Lila if you interpreted this story as a simple battle between two forces over a single vessel a single body then that would be perfect it would actually be beautifully simple but part of me doesn't think it's that simple and also another part of me doesn't want to go too easy on will just yet at this point the information we have tells us that will did killed Tanya and Layla simply covered it up I'm confident by the end of this we'll have a better picture as to whether or not William is truly innocent and how much Lila had to do in his crimes let's scrutinize and keep all of this in mind and of course since we finished the strength ending what better next stop to make then detective 's office what how did this happen did will turn himself in was it your plan all along lla but I thought it ended a different way I don't get it have you heard of The Garden of forking paths detective bore short story yes I mean I get it the story could have unraveled in many different ways and so on you don't have to be a genius to understand that there are multiple possible routes but which of them actually happened you don't get it they all happened but an alternative universes or something no in this universe silly but which one is canonical oh my gosh all of them are and none of them are you seem to think that some of the dreams you see are more important than others detective I suggest you reconsider all of them are equally ephemeral all of them are nothing but dreams detective youu can be an oblivious [ __ ] sometimes and yes for those of you have already played this game I see the irony in that statement we could have gotten some solid information about how much control will over has of his body compared to Lila the nature of this sort of battle that these two entities are having over this Avatar and he gets distracted by stupid allegories of forking paths so actually this is very ironic we we'll get into who the nature of detective you but there's something actually very ironic about that the concept of being easily distracted by things it this isn't the last time we get robbed of information because of L's distracting tactics however every time she tries distracting she always reveals something else that's somewhat pertinent she explains all endings are important and ephemeral Canon and non-canon all of these endings contain Canon information and this ties in very well with the concept of forking paths all being Canon and pertinent I'll explain with an example of a Choose Your Own Adventure story what the mother you wake up one night to a suspicious noise outside your house you have two choices hide in the basement or go outside and check on what made that noise let's say you choose to hide in the basement so you hide in the basement you call the cops and the cops arrive and they say nothing was a Miss however if we rewind and you chose to go outside and inspect the noise a robber knocks you out and steals all of your exotic Butters which ending is Cannon even if we arbitrarily decide that the first ending is Cannon the second ending taught us that there was a robber there he wanted to steal your exotic Butters and perhaps the reason why the cops didn't find anything was because he fled the moment he saw that the cops arrived so both endings are canonically relevant so what is the symbolic signific ific between the strength ending and the strength tarot card obviously it took a great deal of inner strength for Will's empathy to emerge from within him and overcome Lila's plans will chose the most honest route possible when it mattered the most in a way defying all stereotypes that people would assign to his neurological predicament what I do find beautiful about the upright strength tarot card is that it depicts a sort of archetype that isn't conventionally strong holding open the jaws of a lion the signifying the importance of both compassion and Inner Strength there's something Grand about the idea of a seemingly Meek human using compassion and inner strength to hold open the jaws of a lion to thwart the Diabolical plans of Lila and perhaps based on laya's error of defeat when discussing the strength tarot or strength ending with Detective U I think it's safe to say that this would be an instance where will did overcome holding open the jaws of Lila with his empathy to get the most diabolically successful judgment ending we need to let Michael beat us up when we get to the apartment we respond to the tenant as such good good evening young man excuse my asking do you live here yes I do you look disgusted I mean no sir not really the lady from 97 has called for me I'm a rat exterminator the tenant still doesn't look convinced so apartment 97 you say well how about we call Miss and ask her about it you smiled you shrug your shoulders sure do that do you have her phone number he seems to be taking back by your eagerness I no no I don't it's all right I believe you but I'll be sure to come check on you in a half an hour you hear me we are a very close community in this condominium Martha doesn't live in the apartment 97 it should be all right that's grotesque spelling out in a koi manner how she wants to exterminate Martha and rat is in bold lettering hm I guess the bold lettering serves both the purpose of emphasis and symbolically framing the overbearing parental figures two things can be true at once when confronting Martha make sure to smile I'm sure there are other emotions you can use but if I recall Sadness Will Allow her the chance to scream causing the nearby tenants to call the police and discover her body during the interrogation maintain a high confidence with strategically paced smiles and neutral faces I experimented a bit and stumbled upon some cool dialogue by responding to the female torso reveal with a smile and saying I didn't do it with a smile if you smile at this point what you think I'm joking with you buddy there's a dismembered body found near your apartment do you even effing realize what's going to happen to you let's just keep smiling you smiled in a good mood are we wake up kiddo you're in a police station people don't come here for nothing you think we don't know what you did prepare to live through all those horror stories you've heard about police [Music] buddy now that we're on the same page tell me bud what's up with all the nonsense about tulpas I beg your pardon oh I forgot about this so yeah if you smile he talks about tulpas um let me go ahead and go let me smile here you smile you must be thinking how does he know well there's a paragraph in your diary which mentions that word just thought I'd ask you what is this all about you've been in my apartment of course we have buddy this is why you're here what are you surprised angry got something to hide kid anyway back to what I was asking you what the hell is a telpa some imaginary friend right it's not exactly uh what you're so boring you don't have any real friends it's not like that and what's it like it's a mystical practice that has a lot of value if you know how to work it correctly and how do you work it you try to act as though will actually cared about tulpas this is telling us that will didn't care about the concept of tulpas and tulpamancy so um a tulpa is basically a being or object created through spiritual or mental powers it's sentient and independent but it's imaginary nonetheless right I mean considering your own ego is also imaginary which basically no difference between it and a telpa my ego is imaginary huh it only exists momentarily when you get offended or upset for example what if only you knew how unstable your self-image actually is even other people's images in your head are more concrete than your own I don't have time for this mumbo jumbo save those things for you and that's interesting keep this part in mind just keep it in mind because we're going to re-explore that this person mentioning you in in a moment did Father Lawrence teach you all this crap come on I told you we've read your diary spill it out kid what do you want to know who was Lawrence how are you two connected Lawrence was a leader of a group called The Lawrence fraternity and what were they doing some kind of cult you could call it that sex cult no were you guys using substances there your face remain neutral no liar what about the mushrooms you found in your apartment you feel a cold sweat they're for personal use the I'm not even sure I've seen stuff like that before the hell are these I don't know I swear he can't know about the te mushrooms we'll come back to that later don't think I'll forget about it so again about the fraternity I don't believe that though do you Ted so will the bruis is you showed us earlier that's Michael Graves who gave it to you scratches how does a hell a how the hell does a guy give another guy nail scratches I told you he's wearing Rings he's a rock fan or something I've noticed an aie Osborne poster on his locker yeah I remember you told me that this seems to correspond with what the others said unfortunately unfortunately Mr grave seems to be a very short-tempered boy so William Will you actually be able to testify against Michael in the court of law absolutely sir come on Ted don't tell me you ah we'll talk later the interrogation is over for now William we'll tell you when you're free to go there's just a bit of paperwork left regardless so long as you don't qualify for the strength or Justice ending you will get the Judgment ending maintaining confidence allows you to pin the crime on Michael if you lack confidence then they will mention smelling detergent on you what's interesting is that in the unsuccessful variant of the judgment ending the DNA tests come back at that moment so even if you pin the crimes on Michael the DNA tests will still likely point to the direction of William committing the crime now that I think about it that's probably why Laya and you discuss the endings all being ephemeral and important all having small micro variations But ultimately leading to the same outcome judging from the data We Gather from all the interrogation endings No Matter What will is going to be punished for what he did Tanya and Martha and that's something to note there is no variation of the interrogation ending where Martha doesn't get killed what a strange outcome that was I do feel bad about Michael's fate oh do you feel bad about what's going to happen to Graves I wish I could do something about it you do have the power to divert the way some events go you won't lull me into the false sense of safety lla even if I did that now I know for sure in the garden of forking paths there always be one that leads to Mr Graves being falsely this card is objective evidence of that not pad detective many others will try to deceive themselves thinking that only one of the many paths is real yet they all exist simultaneously intersecting in a weird way they seem to dictate each other's logic too I'm not sure if I can grasp the picture in this entirety just yet though do you feel that you need to oh yes yes I have to I don't think I'll ever be able to find satisfaction until I understand each little thing I feel it's what I need to do in order to find out who you are Lyla we'll see about that H so everything we went over in this detective you dialogue we more or less went over in the strength discussion but there is this talk of desperation to figure out every little detail and facet of this mystery out maybe in a way detective you is a lot like us keep this in mind at first I didn't really see the significance symbolically between the Judgment ending and the tarot but I think I figured out a little bit of a link you see there are many different ways that judgment ending can kind of pan out from varying basically from will successfully framing Michael or to basically delaying his inevitable scrutiny but here's an interesting thing the tarot has more to do with like end days like the judgment is more like the times of judgment in a way but archetypically in the way human beings understand judgment days and whatnot is there's sort of this second chance a resurrection that follows the wiping of the Slate clean a Redemption of all sins and whatnot so perhaps judgment the ending and judgment the tarot the link is basically will gaining a second chance by fooling the detectives into blaming Michael but here's the thing and I want to point this out every single one of these endings inevitably lead to the same thing because one of the Judgment variants finishes off with one of the detective coming back with DNA evidence there's this implication that you sort of failed you got the the the worse of the Judgment endings so no matter what even if we have all these scratches and you know Michael beat the heck out of us I think no matter what all of these end in Will's punishment all endings are ephemeral they're all Cannon and in a way they're all kind of the same oh what happened to the thing well that concludes the interrogation Branch the beefiest of the branches don't worry it's going to be a lot more smoother coming in from here on out let's take a pit stop to a flashback ending the moon [Music] ending detective detective I'm sorry I'm late thank you for ordering from you by the way the traffic floppy what the hell are you wearing oh this this is my new worn art piece I call it tabular [Music] Rosa all righty I got I got a order of a chicken curry it's a two share one pot I I'll get you guys some plates careful this is scalding hot and I'll be right back with your plates enjoy I ordered us Curry I'm worried that it might stain your your Garb you wouldn't want your tabularasa to just become a tabula good call aren't you thoughtful today so what's the question so do you think lla is a tulpa I think tulpas are a good launching point for how to explain lla but we shouldn't be too comfortable with that label you seem to have an affinity based on some of the secrets you've kept a puzzle solver eh listen I don't actually believe in the mystical applications of tpas but I do find them to be fascinating narrative devices what do you think about our waiter by the way the waiter uh I think he's trying too hard I think his stick comes off as insincere sincerity is hard to prove when it comes to temperaments but if you notice he's already on his smoke break H his demeanor seems so different in order to cope with the day-to-day duties of running his tables he's adopted this Persona and allows it to sort of Take The Wheel a more hustle oriented although gracious worker be with all of the interpersonal skills that he probably doesn't use on his day-to-day basis outside of his workplace do you think our waiter is a TAA no but what's different about creating this alternate Persona of yourself and allowing it to steal here for you and the whole kummer and ogui story this arbitrary mystical assignment we've assigned to this concept of Tas allows it to delude us and delude others into thinking that we're being possessed by some sort of sentient being like there's something spooky a foot when in reality this person is just adopting a new persona they could give it a new name give it a different ethnicity a different gender even change the species but that's only to insulate them from that Persona okay yeah so what's the difference you take issue with Tas being seen as separate sentient entities you are sentient you have a Persona so any new persona you create will naturally be sentient but unlike this idea of a tulpa it will still be me it won't be something totally separate the TPA is a total transformation almost a completely different software this Persona that I'm describing is patched over software or updated software whether or not you like it your brain is the same brain this waiter might change his Persona drastically but his Persona is just simply a retooled molded version of who he is his previous Persona if you want to see it as him being temporarily possessed by a tulpa then fine but it's still him it's not a different sentient being I don't know no floppy I'm not sure if I disagree with you I'm just not satisfied with this we should get back onto the topic of who's laa but I'm glad we had this conversation we should be keeping this in [Music] mind and now on to the Moon ending remember how we unlocked a new location from Ellie it was the venue for one of Matt's parties to unlock the moon ending tarot let's explore that location through through the bus stop we select the party as our Destin destination William November 20th my name is William Clark and I was invited to a party by Matt Hurley it's my first party in the new class smells nice out here so this is a flashback there is this pumpkin we can interact with to unlock the ripe pumpkin palet I lost the footage for my fresh start gameplay so I don't have what will said when interacting with the pumpkin but if I recall correctly will mentions a familiar smell coming from the fields or a familiar sight also we have another date on our timeline November 20th the night of Matt's party a little more than a week after the fire at Lawrence's fraternity the one that will conveniently stayed home from that's Matt Hurley the host of the party hey dude William right oh hi Matt I'm sorry I'm late hey don't worry man night's just getting started come on in want some beer uh sorry I'll pass thanks for inviting me though no problem you're a newbie but you seem cool man the guys here are so awesome I wish I wasn't that shy and could actually tell him that now hold on this is far less antagonistic than our interaction in the school Matt actually seems like a pretty chill dude in this case we see Jay and Mandy embracing under the moonlit Sky a couple enjoying an evening smoke well at least one of them is enjoying it Mandy so are you happy you got out finally yeah thanks for pulling me out I guess scary to think how it would feel to be home right now hey man you wanted something uh no you smiled it felt a bit awkward um sorry could I have a cigarette oh sure man help yourself you found a cigarette just a regular cigarette Mandy helped pull Jay out from his home not helped him sneak out not snuck him out she pulled him out does this decisively prove my J Mandy tulpa Theory no but it's interesting to think about nonetheless and to be honest with you I think this is the last time in this entire video we're even going to mention Jay and Mandy but it was fun to keep this thing in mind let's close that and move on with the rest of this mess we'll be using the Siggy later we go inside and the party looks fun people chilling chatting and one guy dancing they're having fun I think I love this song I wrote it you know you like it right uh sure wait hold on Ilia wait hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on Ilia if we have William I got into a bit of a tangent thinking that the name Ilia was significant removing the letters from William gives us wlm H nothing there as far as I know there has to be some significance to the fact that Ilia phonetically just sounds like William without a w and without an m without a w and without an wait that um hold on uh keep that in mind W and M uh I already filmed this part uh so just keep the concept of a w a w and an m in mind uh uh you'll know when we get to the point when I mention things like sigils anyways another thing I noticed that the name is kind of similar to Lila under certain fonts the capital I looks like a lowercase l I'm spitballing here I love this song I wrote it you know you like it right uh sure we go upstairs to talk to some fellow partygoers don't get me wrong I really like this song but uh we've been listening to it for the last 2 hours the dancing guy just won't let us change it I think he wrote it or something oh I could try to change it you do that gee man thanks so much you're our savior normally analyzing the table will allow us to change the music by simply clicking on the stereo if I recall correctly the brand of alcohol they're drinking is Leo too but because I purchased the original soundtrack for who's Lila on Steam the table view is replaced by a music playing interface what's interesting is the song that's playing here is called girl to bits now that's an effed up double meaning loving a girl to bits and also chopping said girl to bits we changed the music to we are your neighbors and what's funny is that you can hear the partygoers Thanking us baked into the song because I bought the soundtrack Ila's reaction to the music can be glitchy sometimes so when you change the music from girl to bits to we are your neighbors typically Ilia says something around the lines of oh the song changed but it's okay because I made this song too the song changed finally oh my God thanks man we see that somebody has straight up stolen our outfit we go to confront him and this happens well that was weird H keep this character in mind we Mosey on into the hallway we hear people getting busy behind one door and behind door number two is a drunken Martha under a Halo of love a girl lying on the bed she has to be real really drunk hey are you all right you make a sad face oh I'm fine I just had a bit too much to drink do you need anything water no I I just need to lie down for a little bit should I leave you alone then no no no wait wait what's your name I'm will I think we met at school remember oh you are you're the new guy right too bad you have to see me this way I don't usually drink you know jeez figures I must look really pathetic to you right now hey come on now everybody's like that sometimes any reason you drank so much tonight it's uh that freaking guy you know the one who's she tells you a very confusing yet relatable story in conclusion the guy she's talking about sucks ass she's talking about Jimmy the hotthead from the group of classmates that chewed us out at the school and prick who apparently toys with Martha's emotions this guy sucks ass you made an angry face you feel ugly moved by this half discernible story maybe it's because you've been in the same situation or maybe you are just a bit high from so much social interaction in one evening I love this flashback because it gives us such a refreshing view of William William isn't a psycho he's not like a Dexter Morgan or Norman Bates kind of figure he's just an awkward teen who simply has neurological struggles showing empathy lla having no empathy towards human beings is not the same thing as William having trouble showing empathy I just realized something normally under certain interactions Will's face will change on its own while you the player are trying to make your own face so the added challenge is that not only during this limited time you have to make the face that you want to make you have to reverse the automatic involuntary reactions however for the sake of painless exploration the footage you've been watching is of me playing this game on easy mode which disables this mechanic just so we're not missing any information when William first meets Tanya he has this really goofy smile when he's questioned by stnv as to whether or not Lila still speaks to him he has a scared face I think these involuntary facial movements are coming from whatever remnant of William still resides in the William we're playing as on the flip side when the fellow classmates tell you that Tanya has been missing for a week the face naturally contorts to a creepy Grimace lla is pleased with this news finds it entertaining or funny I guess maintaining that cynicism that I associate with lla there's a part where everything kind of simmers down in the argument with Michael on the rooftop where William says I don't think I can trust you guys lla wants to smile saying this saying this phrase in a mocking way I don't think we're missing out on any Vital Information by going by playing this game on easy mode but that being said keep this in mind keep the keep the fact that there is an aspect to the facial game mechanic that is outside of the players control in mind that actually is kind of interesting I actually I mentioned it already but perhaps there are remnants of Laya and William that are sort of contending with the player as we play the game but we ultimately have the power to Simply press a button and we silence them playing the game on easy mode yeah you you get me will I wish he would too hey you want to uh you she makes sounds that usually proceede vomiting you took the poor girl to the bathroom probably need to tell Matt she's here we make our way downstairs and finally meet Tanya Tanya Kennedy hi there you feel dizzy I do my best to replicate Will's canonical nervous facial expressions I just realized the stranger is no longer here hey you smiled this looked awkward I don't think we've met before right you hey have you seen Martha hold on Ellie he probably doesn't know who that is you're the new guy right yeah you smiled another great face right there will anyways I'll go look for Martha I'm Ellie by the way I'm will she left and there she goes all right my name's Tanya Tanya Kennedy she jocking stretches her hand forward and you give her a handshake is Martha the blonde girl she's kind of plump too that's probably her what have you seen her she didn't feel too good so I helped her to the bathroom that's probably Danny's fault that [ __ ] yeah I think I'll go help her out want to come with sure she left we make our way back upstairs oh wow The Gangs Al together H it's fitting that she was under this Halo of love the way they're all together to help Martha and you just toose that with Tanya having been murdered and Martha Michael having lost two people he loved in his life it makes this all the more tragic this friend group with its flaws mind you but being torn apart with this cascading effect of suffering there you go better yeah thanks you guys and what we talked about earlier look Danny's my friend but I'm not going to lie he can be kind of an [ __ ] sometimes don't even think of blaming yourself all right it's not because there's something wrong with you then he's just been through pretty effed up relationship himself Ah that's a pet peeve of mine here's a Pro tip if you have a friend who's been trespassed against in some way by somebody else who may have their own demons they fighting resist the urge to be the bodh SATA chances are they're in no mood to hear how bad you feel for the perpetrator that doesn't excuse him does it though H I'm just telling you why he did it all right I think I already said that he acted like an [ __ ] oh hey Will guys that's my new friend will we'll shortly see Michael exhibit his toxicities but nonetheless it's so sad how things went upside down so quickly for these kids hey guys you smiled this sounded natural sup man we haven't met before have we yeah I haven't been to school much since the start of the Year oh gotcha well nice to meet you will thanks for taking care of Martha just now yeah thanks will I really needed that they seem to have been talking about something else before you came there's an awkward silence well if everything's fine with Martha I'll go get some air hey what we just came here come on I'll see you all later Tanya are you ignoring me come on we barely hang out anymore it's Graves I still like Michael he's one of my favorite characters in this game but it is ironic how bad he is at reading a situation perhaps if he identified the struggle he wouldn't be so eager to call Will weird or a freak because from where I'm standing this freak has a better interpersonal handle on things we follow Tanya to the hallway she's looking at a painting on the wall there's a sundrenched cafe with huge seemingly glassless Windows keep this Cafe in mind for a later ARG path we'll be taking hey Tanya what about oh oh sorry am I interrupting something Michael please what what's up with you today I don't think I've done anything to deserve that have I I see how it is so you'd rather hang out with some weird dude you just met instead of at least talking to your boyfriend I'm just worried about you all right ah he leaves don't be mad at him he actually cares about me you know that's the worst part I'm not mad I get it I guess T seems very tired it's a nice picture there isn't it it's Hopper right the cafe or something do you like it yeah it has a certain feeling to it like incredible loneliness but cozy at the same time almost like you've been there before yes yes that's what I was to getting listen um well I think I'll go downstairs and get myself a drink now then how about we go for a walk I really need to cool down right now sounds good to me like I said Michael's got some work to do but nothing of what just happened even remotely resembles the story We recount in the Justice sorry judgment variation of the interrogation I think I drank a bit more than usual there finally some fresh air this party was getting a bit intense wasn't it yeah to be honest I'd never expect you to be here oh yeah why not because I look like a tight ass straight A student yeah kind of well there's a lot about me that people don't see oo mysterious what about you you don't seem to be very talkative when you come to school and you don't even come often I don't believe in education huh really uh no I mean I just have to tackle a lot of [ __ ] on my own like you know I live alone I got to do stuff like working doing chores all that stuff sounds rough where are your parents Dad ran away when I was little mom died 3 years years ago I'm I'm sorry to hear that it's okay no use getting all emotional about it now I had a pretty nice childhood just me and her you know I think I'm finally getting something good in my life now but yeah it's gotten tough sometimes sorry I started talking about all this it's okay what about you you mean my upbringing well nothing special I guess I've had a nice childhood two sisters private school and so on were you a talented kid even back then yeah it's funny my parents used to call me a prodigy it kind of sucked though how's that it's hard to explain everyone around seems to expect great things from you like all the time and when you fail it's like the end of the world because it's as if you betrayed their faith in you I know it sounds dumb but it feels real terrible honestly that makes a lot of sense I don't know I still kind of feel like a failure why you're literally one of the best students at the school I don't know it's like even when I do something right when an award or something I just get anxious that the next thing will fail and this never seems to end pH sorry for all that honestly I'd kill for a Sig right now a smoker huh you smiled uh-huh making makes dealing with stress a lot easier well I was quitting anyways Mike hates smokers that's kind of manipulative no he made a surprise face her expression suddenly turns bitter don't think I'm not noticing what you're trying to do Mike's an awesome guy and I love love him all right you have no right to stick your nose into other people's lives you don't know anything all right and you know how would you fix your own [ __ ] first like your stupid facial expressions and how you act like a complete dunce when there's people around uh I'm sorry no no I'm sorry I'm a monster aren't I will come on tell me you think I'm a disgusting human being I don't think you're disgusting I just don't understand you makes sense I can't understand myself either sometimes I it's hard yeah well your friends are there to help you well they don't really know me even Martha doesn't what about Mike are you joking will oh geez of course not I think I'd like to get to know you you smiled she laughs again trust me you don't you really don't I don't deserve all that anyways you're just wasting your time trying to be my friend will I really don't deserve all that my friends are just too sweet I thought Graves was perfect for someone like me it's a shame he turned out to be such a wonderful guy oh my there's so many layers to this so she thought that she deserves a guy like Michael implying she thought he was toxic and she deserves a toxic boyfriend but when discovering that he's actually a good boyfriend which he's not she feels bad because she doesn't feel like she deserves a good boyfriend there are there are so many layers here can I say something I hope you won't be offended but really the world is not revolving around you Tanya the way you beat yourself up is not going to help anybody your friends may not be able to understand what you feel I know I don't understand but we're all ready to be at your side no matter what's happening behind the mask you seem to wear her voice cracked I we're back Will William struggles with social cues and whatnot actually comes to strength when he gives her well- needed and honest advice I mean he puts it in such a way that in my nearly 30 years of life I've never been able to put it I've seen so many people become tyrannical to their friends merely because they don't feel understood I mean think how impossible it is to truly know yourself and yet that's the bare minimum you hold for other people for you it's okay if somebody doesn't understand your experience or even knows the specifics of what you struggle with that takes a life time to understand in many cases if presence and love is not sufficient for you then something as honestly banal as knowledge won't be either that's the theme we're working on regarding who's lla oh my gosh Tanya wants people to understand her for the sake of understanding and on the flip side lla we haven't gotten there yet keep that in mind she she sits on a bench something feels different about her now that you've talked it's a nice feeling still want to smoke here you gave her the cigarette thanks Mike would be pissed if he saw me now if he saw us yeah you know it might sound strange but I feel like I've seen you too like in a dream or something Have you ever been to the sunshine cafe will is that the one down the Avenue yeah it's a cozy Place huge windows and a lot of sun just like that picture we saw for a moment there's a funny feeling inside you no no I've never been there oh oh oh well something's not right you both say silent for a moment so will is familiar to Tanya similar to how we will see Tanya is familiar to will now that's interesting we get why Tanya is familiar to will because Tanya looks like Lyla why is Will familar toan there's slow dance music playing inside want to dance in this cut scene we see a close-up shot of Will's face these shots are very similar to the close-ups of his face we see when lla kills Martha or lla through will kills Martha we see an owl and hear it hoot this is the second owl Motif we've seen so far Tanya and will share a kiss then this scene cuts a footage of two people dancing the music and mood of this footage footage of this footage coming on right after this kiss seems like this is supposed to somehow represent like this Euphoria will is feeling perhaps his first ever kiss however a shot Zooms in on a bystander an older woman and then what looks to be a shot of a forest where the river and boat is shown faded onto the footage this is the forest in the forest ending branch that I mentioned earlier in the video I don't have this written down but it is kind of interesting we have this symbol of euphoria William and Tanya having their first kiss and this dance but all of a sudden the camera zooms into this older woman's face even though William's mother is dead I wonder if somewhere in the back of his mind there's this creeping fear of what his mother would think as he kisses Tanya keep that in mind what where am I who are you she [Music] had no I it couldn't have been her I I've never even there's that strange noise Again The Stranger speaks in that bold text as well what did I just say right now the mother B text she had her face this is like it's like I'm playing the game over again and it's just like oh boy the title of the track that plays during this scene is called end of the night there is this high pitch Trill instrument that plays this sound is a perfect match to another track we'll be hearing in the upcoming death Wheel of Fortune and Empress reversed [Music] ending this somehow links The Stranger with the lady in the boiler so I want you to keep that in mind as we explore who or what the lady in the boiler represents how could it link to the stranger oh man this is a lot of this is going to make a lot of sense by the end of this video let me tell you something my mind is racing when I first came across this scene I already knew that the stranger was going to be a very enigmatic character so much can be extrapolated by the androgynous nature of the stranger it there's clearly an essence of William in the stranger I wouldn't be surprised if many players assume that the stranger was some sort of Midway point between William and Lyla it would make sense there's some sort of transformation going on and with this concept of tpas and the kummer and uigi story front-loaded in the player's mind it wouldn't be a far-fetched assumption my mind started to race even further there are strange connections that we will see between the stranger and motifs of William's mother what if in some sort of Norman Bates kind of way the stranger is sort of the mother emerging through William keep that in mind that's not going to be entirely true at least on its face but if we take that idea even further and apply some other themes that we will find later in this investigation this enigmatic character that's been confusing a lot of the players of who's Lila all this time will be understood by the end of this video that's if I do my job correctly if I do a good job that being said though I'm a big opponent of the lynchian approach I believe we are all investigators and every interpretation is valid and edifying anyways let's keep this question in mind why do Tanya and Lila share the same face with the moon ending complete we head on over to talk over the moon card with Detective U so that's how they met it's nice to see William making friends H they aren't his friends you saw the way they looked at him and the way they are we getting getting jealous what I don't possess such feelings for anyone I all right all right by the way what was that figure in the corner are you talking about the stranger yes he looked a bit like William didn't he it's just it's not his usual look H so Lyla establishes that this stranger is just not one of Will's regular looks it's not his usual look this tells me that this stranger is not some some separate enigmatic character but something that is a part of Will and I'm so excited honestly it's not a very when we discover what the stranger really is it's not going to be super groundbreaking but I'm just very excited because it's going to put everything into context it's going to be very very uh very uh sad to be honest with you I want to and I want to point out she doesn't take any credit or ownership of this this form this form of Will and I can't help but feel it's almost a touchy subject for her I really want to jump the gun here but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna just keep in mind that the stranger and lla are are are very separate that the stranger is something that's a part of will perhaps something that existed in will even before yla was a thing I'm I'm jumping the gun here anyways onto the moon will meets Tanya for the first time encounters The Stranger and Laya is evoked something about Tanya reminds will of Lila obviously because they look very similar to one another now one surface level link between this ending and the Moon Tarot is that this is this party is happening at night so underneath the moon but oh boy this is actually very very rich the moon in the tarot Arcana signifies a complicated or uncertain romantic Endeavor but more aptly a call to weariness regarding triggers of fear and anxiet y a warning against Illusions big big big link between this and the moon and all the implications to come obviously there's going to be a complicated romantic experience with Will and Tanya this sort of Love Triangle that's going to emerge but oh my gosh I mean it's it's just so brilliant how this this whole thing garage Heathen just linked this concept together and it's it's going to even tie together even more perfectly when we get into the psychological aspect of all this now I'm really jumping the gun so the symbolic link between the tarot and the ending is very apt now let's go ahead and move on to the boiler branch of endings very apt things are starting to really heat up in this mystery also keep in mind the lady in the boilers that's mentioned in the miror tutorial this entity is going to become very relevant in the death and Wheel of Fortune endings and now the death ending this one's very simple simply walk past the cohort of suspicious friends and we enter the maintenance section of the school the boiler room's off limits bud I'm only joking hello lla did you get his call again what's it to you old man no reason to be so hostile lla after all you're the one who came here It's Tricky not to get lost in these boilers but with the years you start to hear a Divine melany flutes and on Bones and saxes from Beyond it always comes from the place you seek listen for it just stand beside each door and listen by the way what are you planning to do about the lady the lady that hides in the boilers don't talk about what you know nothing about you old fool now you know why I redacted this part when exploring the Justice ending we can get the reveal that we are actually Lila very early in this game this Mr Frank asks if he's calling again this character as far as I know doesn't come up again but I wonder why they're aware of Lila and aware of this mysterious second caller which is William we press on listening for the Majestic Melody and following it this boiler area is sprawling I can't help but wonder if this is some sort of representation perhaps of deep hidden memories of William you'll see why I say this in a moment there is this this jump scare coming up but don't worry I will dull it before that though we see this very distinctive boiler vat or sistern we will have another encounter with it in the revers empress ending I will slowly fade in the jump scare in 3 2 1 oh gosh what is that I see Sharp long teeth something skull-shaped and it seems wisps of steam are coming out of its snout The Prompt says to close our eyes but for exploratory reasons I make a scared face instead once the timer reaches zero the playthrough ends and we unlock the Death tarot this could mean that we died but there are plenty of other instances where we die in this game or I guess get defeated and we don't get the death terot and besides death in Tarot doesn't exactly mean like death like you die before exploring the tarot symbolism let's talk to detective you are you afraid of death I think death means different things to us you I won't die if you shoot a gun at me but a full understanding of my story a loss of interest that closure brings that's well never mind forget it what about you I'm not sure I've died many times but all I was met with was a different dream along your path have you ever stumbled upon a man with six arms and Snake Eyes I have but just once when you leave me in this dream try to recall what he said you are in a very special position right now you have the opportunity to either jump into the wheel again or be free of Dreams forever don't waste it this time try to make death be the end of you we have to get back to the dream it's such a shame we have I wish we could talk more like this you lla telling us that shooting her won't kill her is heavy foreshadowing we should keep this in mind if we don't want to get tricked in the finale of this game she does hint that fully understanding her story and perhaps the closure that comes with it and of course the loss of interest that follows said closure is some danger to her she stops herself before giving too much away we humans much like Tanya want to be understood just for the sake of being understood and so when we see a mystery like that of who's lla we want to understand every small bit of facet of the mystery simply for the sake of understanding it and this essentially feeds Lyla but what happens when we finally do understand the mystery well we achieve that closure we move on with our lives we sort of hardly pay this mystery any mind from here on out it's as if that constant attention is what's keeping lla alive keeping her fed perhaps that's what she meant when first meeting detective you that oh we're going to have a big Feast from here on out or something of those lines detective U his prime directive is to investigate this mystery constantly feeding Lila's hunger for attention hunger for that mind power I guess you says he's died many times and is woken up from a dream each time or something around those lines I can't help but wonder if these playthroughs these endings the fact that we wake up to play each game remember when we go into the main menu it doesn't say play it says wake up I wonder if all these various endings and playthroughs are like dreams or somewhat similar to the dreams that detective you has lla asks if he's ever encountered a man with six arms and Snake Eyes in his dreams detective U says yes only once now we are going to encounter a man with six arms and we're going to encounter a being with snake eyes but we're not going to encounter anybody with both those qualities maybe she's not referring to a single man with the six arms and with snake eyes but two different entities a man with snake a man with six arms and Snake Eyes we are going to come across a an entity that's called Snake Eyes later in this investigation and we are going to come across a character with six arms later in this investigation as well but none with both so when lla says remember what that man referring to the man with six arms told you the detective you is in a position to jump back into the wheel or or be free from the dreams forever in other words us the player jump back into this game and keep trying to figure out the mystery or be free from it and move on while we still can it's funny how she says that knowing full well that we're going to jump back into the wheel and keep digging trying to figure out this mystery also another big reveal that's easy to overlook Lila says try and make death be the end of you you the name detective you is a pun on the word you as in you the player y o you and it makes sense we are like a detective we're trying to figure out this story and detective U is literally an FBI detective trying to figure out this mystery now the death discussion with Detective you is very very rich so let's go over the symbolic significance between the ending death and the tarot Arcana of death there's the surface level interpretation you fail to close your eyes when you're looking at the lady in the boilers and then she kills you you die but there are other moments in this game where if you fail to run away from an A hostile entity you get killed and then brought back to a checkpoint it doesn't bring you back to the menu and give you the death achievement like this does and so I wonder did we really die as a consequence of failing to close our eyes see the death tarot signifies a need to let go of toxic attachments perhaps when we close our eyes when facing the Boiler Room lady we are somehow decoupling from an attachment to it keep this in mind now let's jump back into the wheel and actually close our eyes and Achieve The Wheel of Fortune ending and now the Wheel of Fortune ending before having our second go at the Wheel of Fortune ending I pick up another pallet in the boiler room and this one's interesting the air is so damp where's Mom you unlocked the new pallet electrified meat well now you know why I depicted his mom this way William mentions in the interrogation that his mother died trying to fix some sort of piping and when we unlock this pallet in which we mention you know Mom the pallet is called electrified meat so that gives us some idea of how his mother died now although she was a traumatic Force for William in life still the sight of your own parent being electrified is also very distressing perhaps these boilers signify some sort of deep layer to William's psyche and the fact that he mentions his mother in the pallet mom and we meet this strange boiler creature this boiler lady must mean that there's some Link in between these two characters the mom and the boiler lady and and we'll have a a confirmation soon in this investigation so keep this boiler lady in mind and the possible maternal link that she has in all of this I mean if you really dwell on this there's a spoil there a lot of this is spoiled but for the sake of my sanity I had to chart chart all this out hey buddy turn the camera off what are you doing man I look like one of those public freakout videos what's up man I've lost the plot where where was I wait a second we get the death ending in this boiler sort of segment perhaps this boiler area is sort of where oh my gosh yeah like perhaps this is where the memory of his mother's death lies and that's why we meet this boiler lady perhaps she's she's she's like oh yeah piping killed she's probably like been scalded oh man okay yeah keep all this in mind so we close our eyes by bringing our top eyelids down and our bottom eyelids up doing so allows us to access the next stage we see a spiral staircase we will see a similar shaped staircase later in this game so keep this in mind there is some mirroring going on between the Wheel of Fortune ending and the tower [Music] ending hello William you need to stop calling me on the phone it's useless will I'll say this once your tricks are laughable and even with her help you're not getting [Music] back did you hear what I said this is William he's trapped in this machine or or he is the machine and he's pleasantly surprised to see Lyla as if he wasn't expecting her he gives us this wheel and if you look it has six arms although I don't see Snake Eyes the wheel is very very important perhaps the Trojan Horse that will needs to achieve freedom and of course there's that strange noise [Music] again as always let's discuss this ending with Detective you who was that it's William didn't you hear us talk I did but so it called you Lila but you called it William well of course film reals that are not needed have to go somewhere this is where Williams went I had to pull the same trick on him after what he did in the tower you mean I mean the one in the forest the one with the pit and a small projector room where all previous film reels are lying around so you had the real what's it for really depends on who's steering I tend to get rid of them will and the the other hand likes to place them onto the projector again peculiar we seem to have exhausted the cards to talk about we can go over them again if you'd like to but we don't have to hm it's interesting that detective U refers to the machine as it and doesn't seem to register that will is the machine either he knows something that we don't or is oblivious to the fact the obvious fact that will has been transformed or trapped inside this machine Lyla refers to reals now these could be the dreams or the playthroughs but they could also symbolize the souls or personalities of various characters perhaps the wheel or reel that we are holding signifies Will's personality Will's soul and what we do with it depends on who's steering perhaps oh my gosh that's that's rich that's that's that's really rich depends on who's steering you know a wheel kind of sounds like real wheel sounds kind of like will how serendipitous how lynching it's as if it was meant to be now let us move on past the Boiler Room ending and into the forest branch of endings some questions to keep in mind and that questions we will be answering in the coming endings is the question of is Laya in full control obviously based on the strength ending based on what the player does dictates how much control will has versus how much control Laya has But ultimately who is the prime steerer prime decider between lla William and us the player second question is what is the purpose of this wheel and lastly what does the lady in the Boiler Room represent yes that creepy image that we saw um that we had to close our eyes to we'll be meeting her one last time I believe one last time yeah one last time uh in these coming and endings and so now let's move on to the forest endings my favorite [Music] [Music] ones okay Gandalf what we're going to be going into the forest might as well come [Music] prepared all right let's get going so you said your name was vior the origin was Russian it's kind of a long story so I was a baby when my family moved to United States from Russia my birth name is VOR so in the English alphabet you'd spell it VZ o r but you go by viewer with a y not VOR with a z so that's the thing the immigration office made a mistake instead of VZ o r VOR they misspelled my name to viewer with a y huh that's too bad not really in the end they ultimately mean the same thing and now the hanged man ending if we start a new game we load in with the wheel still in our inventory we diverge into the forest ending Branch by Simply Having Michael push us off the roof remember we can do this by being sympathetic or by making comments about his late little brother I think he's all right now Dr Hades a very lucky man no to fall from such a higher roof and not even break anything was he on drugs no blood samples show he's clear nothing really not even alcohol I think he needs rest now the sky is light gray of One Tone it's so bright it's almost white a sterile hospital bed the name Dr Hades doesn't bode well it seems like are either in a hospital or in the afterlife our room is number 33 Ward 33 we Ascend some stairs and find William sitting on the window sill with lla so I've been meaning to ask you when I'm not like visually imposing you where do you go well nowhere really I just stopped you know being oh must be really scary not really you do it all the time too will when you lose Consciousness or when you sleep without dreams so not existing is like being asleep it's not really like anything as there isn't someone for whom it's like something not being doesn't really happen to anyone per say well you just said it happens to me sometimes it's very bold of you to assume that some of you actually exists but Lyla you aren't making any sense now I am here I'm talking to you I am I'm will I am I guess yeah is that so how would you describe that I uh I don't know like like I'm young and maybe overanalyzing and I really like lemon soda and I broke my knee when I was in kindergarten so you are your personality and your memories is that what you are trying to say yeah floor one I see lla is having us tussle with those mind Effy ego death Concepts don't worry I'll do my best to translate let's go over this play byplay in hopes I can give a Layman's translation lla says that she simply ceases to exist whenever will isn't thinking about her this confirms that she requires to be thought about and even obsessed over to exist much like the classical understanding of a meme in a way she equates ceasing to exist to being asleep or losing Consciousness at first this seems like a weak and flimsy equivalence how is not existing like being asleep when William presses her on this she deflects playing the game of obfuscation she has to know what William means when he asks how is being asleep like not existing but she says how can you compare non-existence to anything like yeah you just did that I get what you're saying but explain yourself here's a thing that frustrates me she refers to will refers to herself but when will presses her again point out you're saying it's happening to me this [ __ ] is all H it's bold of you to even assume that you actually exist she's playing will like she plays you it's so frustr you get it she's playing will like she's playing detective you it's so frustrating like William be dumb for one second and be like nuh-uh if I didn't exist could I do this she presses him on how to define I or for him he describes his personality his memories things that first come to mind since he's being put on the spot but what he's trying to verbally sculpt is an image of his identity an impossible feat for literally anybody and she does that thing where she's like oh so you're your personality and memories yes hopes and dreams too maybe a little bit of another medium but I digress if this seems like half baked sofus [ __ ] don't worry we're only a third of the way there she'll make her case soon enough into thoroughly baked sophist [ __ ] we Ascend to Floor 2 and Lyla has this hazy look about her she looks similarly to her short appearance to Martha you see will there's a problem with what you just said oh yeah yes let's pretend for a moment you're right and you really are your personality memories and so on but isn't the one listening to me right now also you huh sure and the one seeing me is you and the one feeling all the different things is you let's call this you the perceiver uh-huh we like to imagine the perceiver as a pupil of an eye the perceiver May cast his gaze upon anything colors or sounds touch or feelings but how do you imagine it looking at itself directly the mirror oh I wouldn't trust the mirror my dear William the ghosts on the other side may only look like us so all right in that sense it really can't the people can never see itself so what it means that whatever the people can perceive is not you can analyze your memories and your personality yet the real perceiver always stays in the shadows one of his human names is the prince although he doesn't really have a name of course now this is pretty interesting she acknowledges him but she also acknowledges you the one seeing her is you the one feeling all the different things or in other words controlling the emotions is you she calls this you the perceiver which makes sense in a way we aren't making choices we are exploring them perceiving them however in the context of this conversation yla is referring to Will's perception his gaze as the perceiver and this perceiv can cast his Gaze on many things but how could it look at itself directly will says a mirror and lla says the ghosts on the other side may only look like us meaningless [ __ ] what ghosts see here's what you say nuh-uh if a mirror can't be trusted why is it that when I smile it smiles back however if I were on less side of the debate I would probably argue that yes you look in the mirror and you see the body that you steer in the mirror but you don't see the perceiver the actual thing that's receiving the information how do you know that others have a perceiver in them but see I'm steering into something called solipsism and I'm not entirely sure if that's what lla is trying to use to mind F ego death William she gives this perceiver another name the prince we ascends to floor 3 and lla has transformed into something I can only describe as biblically accurate in that sense there really isn't a difference between you and other people will huh what do you mean for you where do other people exist I mean their minds memories and so on in their heads wrong you have no ability to see what's inside someone's head head to you people are a fictitious creation a number of expectations generated from their actions a phantom existing exclusively and in your head and the funny thing is your own personality is too what I'm real yla even if other people may be imagined by me my own character is what's the definition of imaginary something that exists just in my mind and where does your personality reside I it's all right my sweet William you your memories your mind these are all only temporary shards of colored glass the visioner the perceiver the prince may only look through them and imagine for a moment that he is these shards he never truly becomes them and it's surprising how quickly he may look away from one to another remember will the moment he looks at another one of them he might think he's someone different ah I hate it when people do this change the operating definition of something so that something else fits into that or play semantics but then shifts the operating definition back to its original position colloquially we see the word imaginary as meaning false not real fake fairy tale but it could also mean something that exists only in the mind well yeah lla my thoughts only exist in my mind therefore yes they're imaginary but just because we're playing semantic games doesn't suddenly mean oh no I don't exist anymore I actually hate lla for this most people people in this neurodiverse world will be just like I don't get it or whoa that's pretty cool man and move on with their life but she is targeting somebody with a particular neurological Achilles heel and taking advantage of it trying to get them to spiral like that staircase and on second look at least the beginning part of this third segment of the discussion does actually look a little bit like solipsism so in other words she's pedaling this idea that the only thing that can be known to exist by the perceiver is the perceiver will being the perceiver in this case she then plays games and says that this mind exists only in the mind this perceiver only exists in the mind therefore it's imaginary and imaginary also kind of means not real in colloquially speaking effectively obliterating Will's world view or does it will'll come to find that this conversation scares will but it actually causes him to take precautions and measures that we will witness in the tower ending instead of scaring will away from his own body he repels lla from his we'll get into it in my boundless rage against Lila's word games against poor William I also failed to realize that she is completing this invocation of the prince she's describing almost perfectly our relationship with with William with this game the staircase is blocked by what looks like luggage so we climb a nearby ladder H Jin as you stare at the veil before you you are filled with emotions of strange Nostalgia the curtains flap in the wind yet you feel no drought a hauntingly beautiful Melody can be heard from behind it for moment you can't help but gaze at the shriveling fabric note that the first dialogue is being spoken by a jashen this is the name of a figure who is represented by a pillar that signifies the entrance of Solomon's Temple the pillars are jashen and Boaz and we can see a respective J and B on these pillars The High Priestess tarot card depicts the Priestess flank by these two pillars so perhaps we're entering the realm of the high priestess thusly we see an image of lla perhaps she's the high priestess herself we move our moue to see we are suddenly in firstperson control breaking the third person or maybe even second person pattern we've been playing with interesting you can see particles getting sucked into the iris or gaze of this projector gosh this music an old looking apparatus strange apart from projecting it looks like it's also somehow receiving its own image seems like like its reals are detachable I want to say this now at this moment of our investigation I believe this projector is a representation of the perceiver a representation of us in a way but I don't have the information for that just yet in this investigation I just wanted to say it now so we can keep this possible interpretation in mind you've placed the Reel laa must be gone now we turn around to see William face now in the projector if lla must be gone now and now we see William being perceived by this projector does this mean that we have granted William Control of his body again perhaps this was his plan as the machine gosh this music is so familiar if we time it properly we might catch this pole giving off a morph code sound I did my best to decode it but there were a couple of words that were just too big for me to keep track of so I found the answer on the internet checked the answer against the morse code key and it was correct but should I say the answer you see if I tell you the answer it's going to seem like a spoiler but I assure you it's a very Broad and vague spoiler ah screw it the answer of this Morse code is it's kind of strange that they would give away something so important through something as simple as Morse code it's not that simple detective Layla she's it's almost like she's this song floppy you [Music] good I've heard this song before before even playing this game I've heard the song before I once had this dream where I was in a park surrounded by my friends and despite many of us meeting in our teen years and adulthood we were all children in this dream and we were playing a game of pickup basketball all of all things I turned to one of my friends and asked him where we were he turned to me and he said this is where we go and this was the song that was playing in my dream do you know where dreams come from sherff what kind of fantastic trees have you got grown around here acetal Coline neurons fire high voltage impulses into the forbrain these impulses become pictures the pict pictures become Greers but no one knows why we choose these particular pictures big Majestic Douglas F Douglas F we live inside the dreamy Roy Captain he's gone I lost him detective y I'm looking at the CCV footage now he was never there [Music] you know what it's probably best I wait before revealing this with the strange wheel inside the projector projecting or perhaps perceiving the image of William we walk to a boat this boat is familiar in fact the whole Forest is this is the forest and boat that faded onto the footage of the dancing people when will danced with Lila oh huh there's an there's an interesting link between dancing and the prince we'll explore far later in this game but it's just coming to me now if this is the realm of the high priestess or the realm of Lila it would make sense that this is the image that was transposed the moment Lila emerged or reemerged when Tanya reminded will of lla we take a calm little boat ride and while we're on this River I'd like to point out that this was the moment I fell in love with this game before we move on let me point something out the or's symbol is that of of Lilith's sigil a crescent with a cross underneath it Lila Lilith perhaps something will come of this connection and that would make sense regarding the owl in that dance scene lit in Hebrew can mean a nocturnal creature so the owl would be fitting as a motif that calls Lila forward we also see will walking away from us as we approach this electrical pylon although we see the same thing in all three endings of this Forest Branch I think each ending has a different implication for who is walking away from us also if we have the tomho pallet on there's a chance we can also see to or tomiho the Tachi girl we won't get into her place in all of this until much later but keep her in mind and of course we pass under the electrical pylons thus is the hanged man ending my favorite of the tarot cards we enter 's office once again to discuss the hanged man ending I thought you'd be gone after that well it takes a bit more than getting to that stupid reel that film reel was created by William but I'm not contained in it it only resembles me a little bit just like that [ __ ] Tanya why do you look like her does everyone see you the same way the worms of Lawrence do but there are some who can see better than others we seem to have exhausted the cards to talk about we can go over them again if you'd like but we don't have to lla refers to the lawren fraternity as worms now don't worry we'll have a clear picture as to the relationship between lla and the fraternity soon enough she says that her real does not actually contain her but simply vaguely represents her mimics her and that's kind of interesting when you combine the fact that the image of Lila or will is not being projected by the projector but projecting into the projector so now I have to ask the question is the projector us the player is it William's body what exact L is this lyla's real being only a vague representation of her could also be a reference to the fact that maybe all of this is sort of a recollection of a story rather than the actual story itself much like in your memories when you think of a loved one it's not that the actual loved one is there in your mind but a recollection of them a mimicry of them the reals perhaps don't contain these souls or personalities of these characters but simply memes and bits of data that voke the memory of these characters the most simplistic interpretation when you first get this ending is that the Avatar of will the body of will is now controlled by William so the William we see walk off into the forest is William Clark being occupied by William back in control of his body that's the simplistic interpretation the relationship between the hanged man ending and the hanged man tarot is interesting the hangedman tarot in the Arcana signifies martydom perhaps will will turn out to be some sort of sacrificial figure or symbol of selflessness which is odd because you know he he kind of killed Tanya and and Martha or I guess is capable of killing Martha at this point in the game he hasn't killed Martha if it's lla that's responsible for the murder of Martha and the murder of Tanya which I think is pretty likely where is Will's martydom we have to ask that question keep that in mind only f further exploration will tell now let's move on to the fool ending this one's very simple now that we no longer have Will's reel we simply need to interact with Layla's reel to remove it now nothing is projecting onto the perceiver huh perceiver kind of sounds like receiver the boat ride goes about normally but now I can't help but wonder who is walking away from us if that is still Will's Avatar perhaps it's some sort of blank slate but there's still somebody in there steering it but with nothing to project onto it it's sort of blissfully untainted a clean slate and thus we get the fool ending let's talk this over with Detective you in Tarot this is my favorite card the fool I get what you're saying too bad we're here now yes seems like whatever William did there didn't really help still I like to imagine him some other place as clear-minded and childlike as the fool not remembering and not assessing the junk around him just simply being that's why you envy us isn't it you can't do that yourself and you rely on food we humans give you I don't envy anybody you there's no use in comparing stupid glass shards even if you think one of them is yours at first I thought this discussion was very sparse I had not updated my outline for this discussion so I'm going to have to go off the cuff a little bit without revealing too much of my theory towards the end Detective VI says that the fool is his favorite of the tarot Arcana and LLY responds in a kind of an odd way she says one of one of these stupid colored pieces of glass or bits of reel or endings isn't any more special than the other just because you think it's yours but detective you didn't say this is my ending this is my favorite you know this is my real he says this is my favorite tarot keep this in mind keep this blurred link between the fool the perceiver or the prince which is us the player and detective you in mind it goes a lot deeper than just detective you is you the fool in Tarot Arcana signifies a blank slate and that freedom and optimism that comes from that Limitless potential so obviously there's that link Lila's reel is removed from the projector but it's left blank it's left empty when most players come across the forest ending their first extrapolation is that whatever real is being projected into the projector must signify who is in control this is an imperfect interpretation but it points Us in the right direction so let's follow through keep this idea of a blank slate husk of William's body a sort of vessel or Avatar for us the player to inhabit in mind normally when I make a new discovery during the editing process instead of whipping out the camera and you know doing a green screen or a whiteboard segment I'll just pipe in my voice with with microphone but this next point is very important so important that I need to be on camera for this the fool may very well be the most important of all of the who's Lila endings think back to when we first meet Detective you lla says you are not like those other fools when you first hear this line you're thinking oh she's saying you're not like those other characters these those other people in this story NPCs if you will and in a way that is what she means but if we apply what we learned with the fool ending the fool being emblematic of a blank slate will an empty vessel will perhaps the will that we have been playing as all this time this links detective VI somehow to the fool detective you you are not like those other fools something about detective you is different from all those other dare I say iterations of Williams vessel all those various forms of William that we have have played through throughout all of these different uh playthroughs uh of this game this won't be relevant until the very end when I give my final Theory uh that is the Hazardous mystery of who's lla we'll continue on with the high priestess ending this one's even more simple just simply don't touch the projector and hop on the boat with lyla's image projecting onto the perceiver I think it's safe to say that the will that you see walking off is being steered by lla remember this is the first time the game is being played in first person I believe this is telling us that we are now at that point not playing as William or this husk that looks like William but we're actually playing as ourselves the prince the player if I haven't pointed it out already I do want to point out the significance in when we are ascending up the stairs we are seeing William and Lila conversate with each other so in the very same room in the same sequence we see what I believe to be this Avatar of will this vessel empty vessel we're controlling which can be considered the fool we see Lila which is the high priestess and we see William which is the hanged man the nature of the projector still perplexes me one of the key aspects is that it's not projecting the image when we put a reel or Williams wheel inside it's not what we we're projecting it's what we are viewing so we're not choosing what to project we're choosing what to view and so when we put the wheel in we simply view the hanged man ending when we put laya's reel in we simply view the high priestess ending and if we put nothing in there it's just us the player and so somehow that ties in with the fool a blank slate the flimsiness of my understanding of the projector is something kind of concerned about but by the end of it I think we'll still have enough pieces to put together a consistent Theory and framework for that theory nonetheless keep this concept of the images not being projected by the projector but projecting into the projector in mind and with the high priestess ending finished let's talk to detective youu he's made me after the passing of his mother to oh wait wait no I'm the vengeful Spirit of the girl named Tanya Kennedy and oh no wait I'm a scientific experiment conducted by the US government to brainwashing citizens to or am I a metaphor for mental abuse everybody has seen about a hundred times already or am I a twisted incarnation of Will's dark tormented psyche ooh which one is it detective H playful as usual I see don't worry Lila I won't stop until I find out even if it means I'm feeding you in the process please do my friend Lila's koi and sarcastic answers consist in this order Will's tulpa the vengeful Spirit of Tanya a government experiment a metaphor for abuse or Will's darker psyche the aloof nature that lla answers this question in would have us think that oh all of these must be incorrect all of these must have been red herrings all along leading us to further confusion feeding her in the process but let's fully scrutinize this sure she's not a TPA in the traditional sense but we will come to find out that she is a thought form nonetheless and this curveball nature of the vengeful Spirit of Tanya I doubt any of us were actually thinking that when we first played this game I think the reason why she says this right after the tulpa is because she wants to lead with what everybody was thinking to make us think oh we were correct and then she says or I'm the vengeful Spirit of Tanya this clear out of nowhere I mean out of all this this number two is the least relevant one this is to shatter our confidence she then says government experiment and it's interesting she says government experiment or United States experiment putting this on the list makes us think oh therefore she's not that later on in our investigation we will come to find out that Laya at least in some way is a product of an experiment but not a government experiment but now we've got this dissonance going on in our head we think oh no no but she was being sarcastic about the experiment that must mean mean that that whole all that information is BS at some point she does refute the concept of being created saying that human beings don't have this power of creation we can only form vessels for pre-existing entities to occupy but again I think this is just her fronting let's not take her on her word regarding her ancientness just yet and here's what's also very interesting she says or maybe I'm a metaphor for abuse or I'm a part of dark's Will's darker psyche the way says these things in the actual discussion is I think the most sarcastic these are the most cliche and yet if we were to completely discard these thoughts from our investigation we would be so lost throughout all of this you might be thinking floppy coock all this pondering is just useless that Morse code on that poll gave us the answer from the very beginning I'll go ahead and reveal what that Morse code was saying lla is the mystery of not knowing who lla is this is the most true in a broad sense statement of lla but contained inside but contained inside the mystery we have the ingredients of these possibilities these Clues it's it shouldn't be that we started here and end here it should be that we start here and go through here and come to our final conclusion which we will get to at the end of this video towards the end of this video I should say the tarot symbolism of the high priestess is very interesting you see we have the high priestess depicted on the tarot Arcana card sitting between the pillars Boaz and jashin and we see when we enter the veil we enter the forest which I guess is perhaps the realm of the high priestess the entrance is flanked by a pillar with a b and a pillar with a J and the J is even said to say jashen when you when it speaks to you in the dialogue box m still the cogs are turning damn I'm missing something with the dialogue box I'll say this now why is the josen the name of one of the pillars in the dialogue box that's something I just realize now why the dialogue box is a very important aspect to understanding and unraveling this story's mystery now the high priestess signifies a figure or a force that answers the various questions in life regarding religion faith and the self that sound familiar right before this scene in the forest we have lla trying to mind F ego death William and now all we have left are we already almost out of freaking battery now all we have left are the final two endings in the normal gameplay group of endings let's move on to the empress reversed finally we'll be exploring that lead we got from the telephone from the fellow Lawrence associate remember we know that will is a part of of this group they suffered from a fire at their headquarters that was in an apartment building and Lila refers to them as the worms of Lawrence also keep that lady in the boiler in mind the one from the death and Wheel of Fortune endings before we go let's finally dig into that diary we can find the code on the steam Library Banner July 13 I've been helping out at the little farm near father Lawrence's church I'm not sure what he needs needs all those animals for though no one from the Brethren seemed to be eating them yet some animals disappear after time is he breeding them and selling them or something it's confusing July 13th around a month after will was inducted into the cult he starts noticing them collecting animal being that this is a cult if they aren't eating them perhaps they are sacrificing them July 14 they say I'm pretty good with laya's enforcement father Lawrence told me not to write her name down however but I'd rather trust her than him I think the others may be jealous since she started talking to me so quickly a part of the page is torn okay so July 14th William is already being taught how to enforce lla perhaps enforcement is some sort of mimetic way of feeding lla William notes that he's taking quicker to lla or perhaps Lila is taken quicker to him and we'll even see one of the members surviving members being par particularly jealous of William because Lila take took to William so quickly September 12th I don't think they know what they're talking about tulpas are a very personal thing it can't be that their Lila is the same as mine it's just a part of me it can't be connected to them we are not connected William knows enough about telpas to know that the telpa themselves are contained in the person thinking of them that they are very they're very personal thing so how is it that this tulpa has spread or is being being invoked by all these different members including William he assumes that perhaps lla is different for every single member that they can't all be connected somehow September 15 she scared me today by the way lla did she started talking about the prince and stuff not the musician she had her own idea of how things like personalities and egos work I don't believe her but for a moment I feel really lost I don't believe her but for a moment I felt really lost and sure about what my me really consists of lla when you'll be reading this don't scare me like this again I'm already becoming kind of unsure about this whole thing still love you though so September 15th was the day that Lyla introduces the prince to William discussing these mind Effy ego deathy Concepts in an attempt to cause William to have some sort of a decoupling with his self perhaps to gain more power over him she does scare him only to the point where he starts to take precautions and we'll see those precautions in the tower ending there's a bunch of pages torn November 20th it can't be they just look similar it's her I forgot for a time but I recall her face it's her it cannot be not her November 20th well that was the day of the party so later that night William must have written in his diary about this he mentions having forgotten for some time forgetting about lla so this must mean that at some point before this moment but after September 15th he must have decoupled himself from lla perhaps not wiping his memory of her but perhaps burying the memory of her somewhere deep in his psyche and just like she said in that conversation with him in that Ascension segment before the forest segment when he stops thinking about her when he stops visualizing her she ceases to ex exist so he must have achieved something to the point to where he could completely remove her from the cycle of his thought process December 3 today is the day today is the day and we have a little uh the the female symbol which I believe is oh it's the L it's the L symbol that's the Lil symbol oh my gosh how brilliant if you notice I recognized the symbol the female symbol the circle and the cross I was going to make the connection to the empress the empress in Tarot is often depicted with that female symbol the circle and the cross and Lilith's sigil or symbol is a crescent and a cross linking the empress and Lilith together and finally December 3rd today is the day I'm going to lend you a hand here and say that I believe that this is referring to the day the game takes place is December 3rd now when first playing this game you might have thought no this the the maniacal way this is being written makes me think that today is the day that was the day that William killed yla but we'll come to find out that Lila was killed the date that lla went was considered gone missing happens before December 3rd that date is more or less a week before December 3rd so I kind of sort of put together that December 3rd today is the day should be interpreted as literal today is the day also note on the page is the symbol of Lilith wonder what the implication is there and I'm not being co that's something I just realized with our picture becoming ever clearer we head to the train station to meet our fellow cultists we approached stnv one of the only other surviving members of the fraternity of Lawrence Hey kid hi stnv I can't see you too well can you move closer he smells weird a little bit like old people smell and something else like black tar kid don't you want to ask me something you called me on the regular phone didn't you whatever no use for the throwaways anymore kids toys will there's no one left now but me and you I've seen fires in my life but that one's just effing insane nothing's left here well what do we do without father Lawrence did he leave anything behind is she talking with you what she stopped talking to me after the fire lla did is she still talking looking to you so strev is particularly distressed from not being able to commune with lla and is suspicious of will if only he knew who he was really talking to also keep in mind the implication that's made here after the fire all the surviving members stopped hearing from lla similarly to will having temporarily ceasing yla's Power by not feeding her keep this in mind for when we get a better picture of the timeline and the nature of lla in the scheme of Lawrence's block responding with sadness doesn't change the course of this ending but stnv do seem to believe us at first is she still talking to you no you make a sad face so you too then I guess we are in the same boat kid [ __ ] after I got out from the Slammers I haven't had any luck with anything pretty much I thought I had someone left it's now you and mean William worm what did you say nothing stnv must must be my imagination he left something behind for me by the way Lawrence left something for you in a Depot a Depot just over the bridge and all train depot what do he leave you'll know when you see it if we choose to respond with a scared face or for playing on the normal difficulty and allow Will's face to naturally contort to being scared we get this response no you look scared why are you shaking kid are you cold no not real there there's no need to lie to an old dog like me interesting old dog I see it in your eyes she's still talking to you isn't she maybe even right now effing kid you never deserve this if you knew what we did to boys to boys like you back when I was behind bars get the F away from me you're lucky wear in a public place you lying little rat why why would she still talk to you out of all people any emotion aside from sadness or fear gives us this response you're not sure whether strn have noticed that is that so well bad luck bad luck kid by the way did the animals die too burnt to a crisp all of them you are funny kid worrying about some animals when lla won't speak to me what did she ever find in you I don't get it it he left something by the way Lawrence left something for you in the depot so there is Will's affinity for Animals peeking through as well although it could also be lyla's concern for her source of sacrificed food being destroyed I'm getting ahead of myself we go to the depot spin the wheel and get inside to see what Lawrence left for [Music] us where the f are you William you thought you could fool me didn't you lla I know you can hear me please you are my life I don't get why you would choose that effing kid please please please I just want to see you one more time maybe maybe he captured you with his dirty body did he do that to you my princess don't worry I'll free you from him and you can have me instead you'll be nice and cozy nice and cozy right here kid how dare you effing steal her from me I'll cut her away out I'll I'll carve out of you you a oh gez ah the noise for when stn is in pursuit of us is of dogs barking similar to the dogs that barked when we left our cursor lingering on the refrigerator remember the sound file or track is labeled meat he says things like can't hide from me when he sees us evading him is simple enough but images of animals show shown on the screen when he catches us I can make out shapes of a dog bearing its teeth in the eye of a cow we evade him spin the wheel and enter the next room it's interesting how he seems to teleport into a new position in the next room but it could just be video game logic the scenery begins to look less like a Depot and more like the inside of the boiler room I can't help but Wonder are we running from him or are we baiting him we evade him in one more more room then make it to the catwalk where he almost catches up to us we hear that strange real noise again this of all places doesn't seem very fitting for that noise it's the most odd instance of it we reach the door spin the wheel and get the confirmation that stnb wasn't chasing us we were simply leading him to his demise it's her again H what what so you want to see so badly well Feast your eyes scnv scev gets consumed by the empress the lady in the boiler this being that is somewhat linked to Will's mother I don't know if it actually is his mother though she hid in the boiler again well are you satiated now oh Lila you are such a naughty naughty girl [Music] I do not desire to feed for now the Abode that you seek has a numerical value assigned to it the number is 4303 freaking Lawrence and William has hidden this one so well your endeavors amuse me but now it's time for us to cease that bold text hearkens back to Will's story about his mother verbally harassing him and his friend Annie what's interesting is that the empress was protecting will from lla in the boiler ending Branch or perhaps protecting William from us and when I say Protect I really mean in a possessive way not in a guardianship way it seems now that we've fed her she's willing to reciprocate by revealing the next piece of the puzzle she gives us the address to Lawrence's apartment but specifically gives us access to Will's memories of when he investigated after the fire after he decoupled himself from lla explaining why she doesn't already have access to these memories if you listen closely you can hear that same muffled moaning or Screaming that you hear when Martha is about to be murdered [Music] I wonder what the link is there perhaps the empress in the form of will psyche tainted by his mother came through it's a common enough Trope in Horrors surrounding murderers overbearing parents taking control of a disturbed individual from the grave through trauma they inflicted or the supernatural which symbolically could just be trauma keep in mind the empress says cease so after the empress has us cease we get the Reversed Empress ending so let's go talk to detective you about this have you ever heard of the term devouring mother it's a yian term it describes an archetype a mother incredibly protective but in the same amount selfish it's a mother who devours her children stealing them from The Real World disgusting for many it is do you have a good relationship with your mother lla are you trying to be funny detective no need to be so hostile yla after all you are the one who came here we seem to have exhausted the cards to talk about it's very interesting that detective U leads this conversation by explaining Carl Young's concept of the devouring mother archetype you could get this ending right from the beginning and so the game could as early as your first ending frontload this concept of the jungian model of the of of explaining the psyche and the collective unconsciousness let me pull back first a second all these different endings are modeled after the tarot Arcana now there are two kinds of practitioners of tarot Arcana there are those who see tarot as a form of divination telling the future and there are those who see the value in Tarot as simply telling a possible story these cards are made up of archetypes that we see commonly shown in human behavior human history and fiction I mean after all who writes fiction human beings derive from our brains things that we want to see happen you stuff like that art mimicking life life mimicking art all that stuff Carl Young and all the various yans posit that these archetypes stem from something called the collective unconsciousness we'll get into what that is later in this video God willing I use the term Collective unconsciousness quite a few times in this video before I finally give an explanation for it kind of a critical mistake on my part so to correct that I want to explain to you in my personal sort of Layman's reductive terms what the collective unconsciousness is so you have your personal unconsciousness your sort of your blind spots the way you sort of unconsciously react or in digest things mentally but there is something that unites us all as humans called the collective unconsciousness in all the various cultures religions and epics and stories and fictions and historical accounts we always see these recurring symbols recurring archetypes many religions faiths and pantheons have themes of martydom a martyr figure a judgment day a Ragnarok some concept of a mother earth a fatherly godhead even before the term the hero's journey was coined human beings had this affinity for patterns in their fiction patterns in how they went about their own adventures and their real life stories it seems no matter where you go on planet Earth most human beings have this affinity for the rise and the fall the start the climax the ending and peppered throughout all of our different fictions that we write or histories that we experience there are these archetypes that emerge from the psyche of the humans who write these stories or live through this history just like no matter where you go on planet Earth beavers build dams or if you separate a chick from its flock and raise it in captivity it recognizes dangers in the sky human beings no matter where we are have these affinities these archetypes that tend to emerge from within our psyches there is some sort of unifying code Consciousness X Factor in all humans can very well be the reason why we can identify patterns in Behavior tropes and stereotypes unconsciously emerging in the stories we write that is the collective unconsciousness now mind you the collective unconsciousness is only one facet to jungian psychology which is its own discipline in the grander discipline of psychology listen I'm sure that there's plenty of literature out there that refutes the existence of this Grand unconsciousness of this Collective unconsciousness and trust me even in my Cur research of Carl Young there are stuff that I just sort of raise an eyebrow at but for the sake of symbolic edification and appreciation of the game who is Lila I bring forth to you this explanation of the collective unconsciousness hopefully I did a good job so let's move on the devouring mother is emblematic of everything opposite to the upright tarot of the empress which is why this ending is called Empress reversed Lyla seems to be upset when asked about her relationship with her mother maybe she has a rough relationship with this Empress or maybe she thinks that you is joking perhaps because she herself is a mother of sorts we'll get into that later in this video this is a straightforward conversation the tarot symbolism isn't much more than what we've already gone over we encounter and feed this boiler entity this boiler entity I think is certainly the mother of will but is she also the the mother of Lyla nonetheless I believe the boiler entity is interchangeable with the empress the upright mother signifies a generous mother figure someone who is giving sacrif you know sacrifices so much of her life for the betterment of the people she loves whereas the reverse doesn't always mean selfish see even the devouring mother can be toxically generous as in smothering perhaps there's a Tit for Tat think of the mother who is very giving to her children but downplays or justifies the pain she causes her children because of how much she's given them I give you a home so you could feel security and catharsis and you let me hurt you so I could feel Security in catharsis sorry the devouring mother now let's finish off by investigating the Reversed Emperor so after this point it's going to be all a RG mystery solving puzzle solving all that stuff if you want to see if you have what it takes which I believe you do to to to face this Gauntlet and solve the mystery on your own which I believe again you do have that in you click off this video buy the game and enjoy it you could always come back to where you left off we follow the lead that the empress gave us she gave us numbers 43033 which is the building number for father Lawrence's burnt apartment building building today is November 16th my name is William and I have come to investigate the recent fire that happened here in an apartment complex nearby keep in mind that this starts off as a flashback sequence but we will take a diverting path as we the prince explore so the date that William investigated the aftermath of the fire would take place on November 16th before Matt party and after the fire ignore all this other stuff I I kind of messed up keep this investigation paent in mind the fact that it's happening before he met Tanya and the fact that it's happening after the Calamity which uh you know don't don't look don't look at spoilers we'll get to that at the tower ending excuse me do you live here we can't let in any non- tenants due to the investigation yes I do you smiled this sounded genuine I live on the third floor apartment 303 all right gotcha it's strange though I don't think I remember seeing you before wait let me check the I have immediately old lady oh well I have to go look at this please proceed to your room sir we talk our way past a police officer who sectioned off the area for further investigation we make our way inside the ruins of the fraternity I used to call this place my second home what happened here now it smells like dust and Ashes the first room we investigate Bears no fruit with a rotary telephone we can view but not interact with don't worry there'll be more to this area toward the end of our exploration of this game the second room has quite a bit to analyze fireplace a place of fire perhaps this fireplace is the source of the fire that scorched this area the computer is locked behind a pin that we don't have access to just yet we then read up on some ritualistic practices that the fraternity took part in some pages were Untouched by the fire for us the most comfortable way to contact him was by using a special yantra for beginners an eighth TOA of teth mushrooms is often required however experienced members of the group May manage without them instruction one position the yantra so its Center is at eye level and a comfortable distance away sit with your spine straight breathe in and out slowly until your breath froze naturally look at the center or dot with which represents the unity that underlies all the diversity of the physical world now allow your attention to expand engulfing the outer square of the yantra do not move your eyes from the dot however gradually span your attention across the sacred figure as you reach the outer Contour you will already be unreadable oh wait wait that's unreadable right a yantra is a sacred shape a mystical machine of sorts not to be confused by a mantra something you say or a mudra a hand gesture and those teth mushrooms the ones we saw in the medicine cabinet and was referenced by Officer Fisher is referenced here in this book will come to find out that these mushrooms play a key role in the sort of metaphysical exploration of these cultists so we position ourselves on the occult Lazy Boy and focus on the yantra we're back at the mysterious Forest again but it's a bit different the track playing is called Twisted forest or warped Forest this you unlocked a new pallet lucid dream we explore a bit to find a little figure of the garage Heathen mascot now that I think about it's very fitting that we find this here unlocking the pet lucid dream also very fitting keep this concept of this Forest realm being a form of dream realm in mind specifically for when we explore another game by garage Heathen called shast we make our way down to the water and come face to face with the stranger a statue of sorts it looks familiar it looks so familiar it may be made of wax so lifelike it is does it talk it looks so familiar his face is like a mirror isn't it you cannot help but gaze at it there were no words spoken all happened in an instant how amusing a vessel for my kin has come on its own what does this vessel want with the first movement of your mind the creature seems to have understood the whole of your desires it is known we will help you understand nothing is required in return we do not need your compliance you may seek help from my ctor the donon you must acquire him separately he was uploaded as an addition to this reality I shall give you a link to his location listen carefully the is now copied to your clipboard if you still want to hear from Lawrence call him on the phone the Damon will know the number once you let him see the phone rotor is this the emperor the father of Lila again the Bold text signifies some sort of Parental link we'll get confirmation throughout our investigation that any sort of image of a monkey with a mushroom head or Snake Eyes is some sort of personification of garage Heathen the developer so I mean to makes sense the developer the creator of this game this world would be personified in this game as the Emperor as the God of this world and in another one of GJ heathen's Creations we have Tachi she makes references to a a daddy a daddy figure so keep this concept of a lesson Stellar Father Figure in mind remember this is the Reversed Emperor ending not the upright Emperor ending let's do a play byplay of this scene because it's very important we the player have will sit down and stare at the yantra we will come to find out that this would be the one of the practices of the fraternity in entering this sort of spirit realm to commune with this Emperor figure according to the books Untouched by the fire in focusing on the yantra with the help of some consumed te mushrooms fraternity members will enter a dream state and commune with this archetype what's interesting the way we say don't need these anymore when interacting with the mushroom in Williams medicine cabinet keep this in mind will would need these but with the help of us the player will doesn't the book mentions that only the most experienced of the fraternity members can enter this state without the mushrooms but will of course isn't a seasoned cultist he's more or less an underling he would still need the mushrooms if he wanted to partake in this practice so perhaps because we the prince are present it's much easier for us to access the inner mind of will we have that ability as the player we're back in this bodyless firstperson perspective which I believe means to signify we're now just playing as ourselves the floating perspective of the perceiver and we meet face to face with a waxy fimile of will this is then raled to be the stranger when many of us came across the Stranger in this game we thought that the stranger was some sort of middle stage between the transformation between William and lla that there is this sort of jeel and Hyde thing going on the biggest piece of evidence that that would support this would be the androgynous look to the stranger having some aspects of William and some feminine aspects we could only assume coming from lla I noticed though that there were some details in which the stranger had some strange link to the mother and so I thought perhaps in some Norman Bates kind of way the stranger was sort of the emergence of William's mother all interpretations are basically valid I want to jump the gun here a little bit and point out that as we get more into the themes of the unconscious I think we'll have a better and more clear understanding of the stranger so I'll mention this now when we sit in the chair and we enter that dream world we are entering what I believe to be the remnants of the unconscious of William so we are entering his psyche so ask yourself this question why is it that we are meeting both the emperor and The Stranger in this dream world and the hint is being this dream world is the psyche of William the picture will become a lot clearer as we go on now here is something that completely went over my head in the previous Forest ending the forest is more or less a dream world there are two times we enter this world in the game in the emperor ending when we focus on the yantra and enter a deep state of meditation remember this is typically done with mushrooms psychedelics or in the hanged men High Priestess and fool endings when we we are about to hit the ground after being pushed off the roof of a three-story building many have speculated about the experience of the brain right as it's about to die that DMT this sort of dream drug spikes in the near death so it's only fitting that we enter the same state right as we are about to die in the forest ending that would make total freaking sense as to why William is a martyr because it has oh my gosh it has oh my gosh because he consciously chooses to bait Michael into pushing him off of the the three story building perhaps to avoid Martha being killed right anyways after being absolutely mogged by The Stranger we commune with the emperor I'm of the mind that the firsters nature of these four segments are explicitly us the player the perceiver in the game so when the emperor is calling us a vessel for its kin it's talking about us not will who is the kin of the emperor you could say that Lila is the kin of the emperor we'll explore the themes of the emperor being a representation of the developer garaj Heathen so so just as how Lila is the creation of the Emperor or I guess descendant of the Emperor who lla the game is descendant of the game developer garage Heathen and so us as a player are a vessel for this game keep that in mind but let's discuss more about how we are to be a vessel for Lila specifically so if we are to be a vessel for lla what would be the status of our vessel Hood you and I throughout this investigation haven't been possessed by lla haven't been talking to Lila and yet our minds have been vessels for lla yes all this time we have been basically feeding Laya with the attention she so craves we are a vessel for lla and you might be you might be thinking but no she's not real she's just a character in the game how can we be a vessel for something that's not real a meme doesn't have to be real this Hospital does not exist there is no such thing as a pale wrinkly faed man who's telling you that you lost the game which again you just lost I'm getting excited ahead of myself even but it's been staring Us in the face this entire time this theme remember the newspaper was telling us about the mediums of the various eras of technology and information being permanently transformed with the introduction of the worldwide web that was in some sort of form of aimless worldbuilding we were being front-loaded a key theme in framing this mystery of who's lla the nature of Lila or the nature of who's Lila the emperor gives us the link to a free downloadable add-on to the game in order for us to see what really happened to will when he investigated the fire will have to re-explore the apartments with this new hat on the moment we sat down on the chair and stared at the yra is when we diverted from the flashback we will get the canonical flashback event when we explore the hero Fant ending so now let us talk to detective youu about this ending reversed Emperor who is the prince no one whenever you say who you're just pointing your finger at those stupid projector reels the prince is not a who if you want to see the projector light you have to look beyond the the film why do you yourself need a real then it's an anchor through which you humans can understand me Lawrence's worms tried to make an instrument out of it they made a real artificially too bad it had my face on it I couldn't help myself I always come when someone calls but I was here before all the reals just like my father was H it threw me for a loop that after after the emperor ending detective U leads with the question so who is the prince but I think that's because that we the player the prince are finally being personally referred to by the emperor we're essentially making our sort of debut in the game our canonical debut in the game so it is fitting that detective U would ask the question of who is the prince in the discussion of the emperor ending when it's solidified that you the player are the perceiver the prince the V now the tar significance of the Reversed Emperor kind of threw me for a loop we meet a deity and it offers its helper this Damon DLC tool free of charge nothing in return this is kind of benevolent this is something a a good leader would do help you for nothing in return so why is it that we have a reversed Emperor a tyrant or weak ruler perhaps there's an ulterior motive to this deity that something about solving this mystery isn't exactly going to give us the catharsis or Triumph that we think it's going to get us there's something oddly self-aware about all of this not sure if I already mentioned it but I'm certainly going to mention it later in this video throughout this video I'm going to be operating on the idea that this Emperor is a representation of garage Heathen in a cynical way having you get hooked on this mystery bolsters the game development the career of this creator of this realm while it might seem benevolent that this game developer would give us a free DLC to help us solve the mystery what will end up happening is we will be even further enthralled in the mystery so perhaps this Emperor isn't exactly benevolent I don't actually I mean gr Heathen is is a great developer I'm not saying that you know he's a tyrant or a weak ruler you know but um I am obsessed Lyla says that the prince is no one that when detective you asks who who is the prince the who is just him pointing to the projector reals if we want to see the light of the projector we have to look beyond the film The Prince is not a real but the perceiver that lies beyond the projector light that's not being projected from the projector but being projected into it perhaps the light is coming from your computer screen okay I'm getting jiggy with it but it's pretty interesting isn't it perhaps this world's Creator and its sustainer are two different beings gashi then is the creator but we the player the prince sustain this game by playing it we the player are the prince to the emperor so long as there is a perceiver to perceive these reals they never stop the world Never Dies and these reels keep spinning and spinning so maybe it's so maybe this Emperor isn't weak or tyrannical they're just very Laz Fair they create and it's simply up to us the prince to sustain what we do with the game it's up to us I think I'm pretty satisfied with this model of thinking regarding the prince and its relation to the Emperor or garage Heathen now we'll still get some information regarding the emperor and his role in the grand scheme of this universe as well as figuring out how the player detective you and this fool the Avatar we play as connect together what a beautiful meal esito did you know that in some parts of South America esito doesn't mean Exquisite but means weird H interesting you are one person who goes by two different names and esito is one word that goes by two different definitions how'd you know about that never mind that it's getting cold do you want to head out doesn't seem like you brought any layers I have a scarf I'll be fine [Music] how about we order some coffee get Cafe GES I'm feeling less Dale Cooper and more log lady tea ooh yes I could use a good tea right now yes wonder what they've got on their tea menu come on babe quit being such a [ __ ] teas did you just hear what that guy just said I did I didn't know this restaurant served [ __ ] teas in a public restaurant what I like a good like a hot Earl Gray [ __ ] tea what the hell is a [ __ ] tea it's chicken broth mixed with tea it helps you get through the cold weather with all the antioxidants why the hell is it called [ __ ] tea and not chicken tea probably for the same reason we call it chicken broth and not [ __ ] [Music] broth while the Damon is downloading let's dip our toes into some ARG if you look on the ichio page for who's Lila we can find a tarot card it's the reverse Temperance card and look there's a hidden message on it at the bottom we read now you are William Clark correct and at the top it's sorry it's hard to explain these are quotes from officer Hutchin and William respectively from the interrogation sequence the first quote is what Hutchin leads with so that's easy to access the second quote is accessed if we maintain confidence while not getting angry when our friends are mentioned I only know that off the top of my head because I've explored the crap out of the investigation segment however if you're not a freak like me you can get a Hint by looking closer at the temperance card we get a hint as how to access this secret Temperance ending confidence signifies how to get to Williams quote and disgust is the emotion we must show when prompted at these moments this is the secret reverse Temperance ending it's an ending signifying by its achievement but it isn't an in-game tarot card we can discuss with Detective view which is interesting this is what happens when we respond to Hutchins with a disgusted face all right now you are William Clark correct you look disgusted yes that is correct however that's not really my name excuse me my name is lla um can you elaborate did you change your name no the name lla was a assigned to me by the worms of Lawrence although I've been known by many names since the dawn of humanity could you elaborate a child is born and with him comes the shadowy figures each child has a roughly similar set of them some of the Shadows are hazier some take the form after some time the children never see us but we are always there pulling the strings and when a child invites me in I can't resist it so are you saying this is not William I'm speaking to right now it is not but do not worry you know who I am after all you were born with me as well I am the one snatching children from their sleeping mothers I am the nocturnal Queen the one known to cast both nightmares and dreams of lust I'm Excuse me I'm not sure what happened just now so you're claiming to be some kind of demon or you don't seem to understand I I want to talk to detective you now look bud there's no detective here by that name which is interesting because previously the other detective fiser said to save that crap for detective you now let's go back to what we were discussing do you know this girl of course she is the reason I'm here talking to you and why is that exactly because she looks exactly like me and because my little William slaughtered her William being this boy's assigned name William Clark he was the one to invite me in I see so you are saying that I am now talking to some being inhabiting the body of William Clark you know well this is a very common thing guilty people do they come up with those stories to clear their Consciousness but it was you who did it wasn't it William did this yes but you are William I want to talk to detective you I already told you there isn't a detective by that name here so backtracking a bit all right if Will did this how did he do it I don't know everything he was able to Tire me out to keep me hungry long enough so I didn't look through his eyes anymore but I remember him meeting this copycat girl the spark of remembrance was nutritious enough for me to catch a glance of her it all happened in a room full of people there was music are you by any chance talking about Matt her's party then I could catch glimpses more often they talked about silly things and then he must have started remembering I saw clearly she looked just like me not nearly as beautiful but I see why William would confuse us to he thought I came back for him he thought she was me so that's why he slaughtered her how did he do it he strangled her and and then it's hilarious he cried like a little infant the stupid guy he couldn't take it in the thing that was unraveling before his eyes delicious so I had to step in all in all it was a happy coincidence I had to clean up after him though cut the body to Pieces we have found a book about telpas in Williams drawer would you claim that you are his telpa the worms like to call me that they thought they had control but they are no Gods you humans can't create anything new so all you do is create artificial empty spaces in your head in hopes that someone like me comes and fills it up and so I came they believed it was a product of their thought but I was there all along I'm sorry you'll have to stop with this nonsense you'll be evaluated by the court doctors on more time after this interrogation ends you do realize you'll go to jail regardless of what you claim you are this body if you will is going to court it does not matter my Affairs may be fulfilled from any place you could be dead now had I wanted it well that's a bold claim in any case there's no reason to continue dis interrogation the motive in the crime seem to be clear we'll ask you to lead us through the crime scene after this so we'll get a more ACC accurate picture sure thing officer sure thing according to lla In This Moment the archetype goddess original meme of Lila predates the worms of Lawrence it predates the name Lila even lla is claiming to be Lilith even almost evoking the name out of of Officer Hutchins I can't help but feel this dialogue is a bit too on the nose and it's just in lyla's character to feed into the occult fears and Fascinations to toy with people the player included otherwise why else would she be announcing her nature in such a matter of fact way she's toying with Hutchins and would rather speak to detective you nonetheless we can gather from the deception she calls herself the nocturnal Queen further pointing to the owl imagery she snatches babies from their mothers much like how she engulfed William after he lost his mother when talking about how will and Tanya first met she confirms that she reemerged when William danced with lla at Matt's party calling Tanya the copycat girl we'll come to find out it's a lot more likely that lla derive from Tanya's likess likeness and not the other way around keep this in mind when appraising the trustworthiness of Lila's reveals she also claims that it was William who killed Tanya specifically he strangled her just like how he ends up strangling Martha her reasoning is because since Tanya looked like lla William thought she was lla and so he killed her thinking he was killing yla and then lla claims that she only arrived to clean up the mess afterwards this will turn out to be a dubious account but keep this in mind for when we explore the lovers ending lla claims that she isn't a TPA that she wasn't created by the worms of Lawrence they created the space in their mind for lla and this already pre-existing being came to occupy that space fooling them into thinking they created her with their thoughts this is the hardto explain dialogue if we say it with a disgusted face also sorry for Hutch's face being glitched in this footage I'm sorry it sounds strange but it felt wrong like it wasn't really her I was kissing but I don't know uh an effigy of something I knew or someone else I knew or or something I'm not sure I understand what you mean William sorry it's hard to explain you look disgusted William William you keep calling me that however that is not really my name excuse me my name is lla can you elaborate did you change your name no the name Lila was assigned to me by the worms of Laurence who are the worms you are referring to I'm talking about the pathetic wretches gathered by Lawrence by Lawrence you mean Professor wa Lawrence yes him you were part of his group correct William was indeed that's how our collaboration started that's when he saw me for the first time what were the aims of that group well that's easy the Brethren may be stupid but Lawrence has always suspected the satanic and deeply occult nature of our world's order the streams of social will are in fact supported by this one thing you see there have always been works of art music poetry and Pros that would live on outside the will of their creator these Works were able to cap something so deeply suppressed something shared so universally between people that they were able to live on without the author's control with the introduction of the worldwide web such Works have been digitized Lawrence was simply seeking a way to birth such digital artifacts on a regular basis I was supposed to be the generator of them the animals I'm sorry you'll have to stop with this nonsense you'll be evaluated by the court doctors on more time after this interrogation ends you do realize that you'll go to jail regardless of what you in the second possible Temperance ending secret she says her collaboration with Will started in the fraternity not since birth this is somewhat inconsistent with her comments in the earlier Temperance secret he saw her for the first time while he was in the fraternity she then explains the aims of Lawrence as wanting to harness the satanic powers of mimic control again leaning into the dramatic the satanic Panic if you will and if you notice she's lifted her talking points on mediums and the worldwide web effect on those mediums straight from the newspaper again there's something insincere derivative about all of it but just like the high priestess U discussion I think there are bits of Truth or value in her thinly veiled deception we will come to find out that father Lawrence is attempting to manufacture memes for what reason we will soon find out but the satanic occult Edge is simply a front perhaps the worms buy into it but Lawrence and other colleagues of his see this as a scientific experiment playing with Consciousness and phenomenology she does mention animals before being cut off by Hutchins that's right I remember will mentioning animals disappearing in his diary and showing concern for their well-being after the fire with stnv this is the odd bit that undermines the idea that Laya is purely a mimetic man-made creation we don't make sacrifice to Ugandan knuckles but we do to deities principalities pantheons and whatnot and just when I thought the lines were starting to get clearer they start to blur again well let's press on and keep all of this in mind it is interesting that this particular ending which is signified by a respective achievement doesn't get a detective VI discussion it seems like even lla is expecting a detective you discussion but she's sitting there stuck talking to officer Hutchin I'm going to be real with you this particular symbol ology when it comes to the tarot I'm kind of stumped I I kind of see like a gameplay aspect to the you know the overlap so let's see if we could figure something out here in order to get the temperance reversed ending the player has to discover one of two very specific roots of dialogue in the temperance reversed ending llo just straight up reveals her nature to the officer the upright Temperance card signifies a middle ground coolheadedness but a reverse Temperance signifies drastic measures radicalism leaning one side over the other side imbalance in a way perhaps the overlap between the ending and the tarot is the fact that in all the interrogation endings there's the sort of ambiguity strength is definitely leaning towards the side of will uh justice towards the side of Lila but there's a little bit of blurriness there and judgment is sort of the Spectrum in between however Temperance is full-blown Lila this is no no doubt lla emerging from within will and demanding to talk to you and it is kind of interesting I mean and and you doesn't come about I'm sure I'm missing something I'm only really touching on this vague symbolic overlap nonetheless let's move on let's get this Damon DLC sucker popped in and move on to the tower ending and so we will start off with the tower ending but first of all I want to confirm that there is no Temperance card for the temperance ending sort of an interesting little secret last time I used the Damon tool was when I pirated Elder Scrolls Oblivion after installing my first ever graphics card this is a different Damon tool using the Damon tool this servator sent by toolshed heretic or my bad sorry garage Heathen we will unlock some Nifty Secrets just as we start the game already the Damon's eyes are glowing and look he's got snake eyes H but no six arms the symbol in the upper corner I've been ignoring up until now is also an indicator that the Damon has something to say we look around until we interact with the painting and check this creepiness [Music] out the Damon is robotically whispering in my ears anyways what did he say [Music] November 13th funnily enough that's also when trading cards were enabled for this game on the steam the steam page Will's injuries that he shows in the interrogation if he beat up or avoided the fight with Michael Came From This calamity but the fire happened the day before the sequence we are about to see is this said Calamity so prepare yourselves cuz we are about to get a big key to this timeline I remember back in the day when I played this game called insane aquarium I used to change my date forward whenever I wanted to reset the fish shop that high octane Tech savviness finally comes into play we must change the date of our computer to November 13th any year Works once we do that we are transported taking us to the tower ending please don't go closer stay in the corner there please They're All Dead Aren't They the newsletter said so oh get the out of here CC Cleaner even even father Lawrence and I have to say it now Lyla I won't kill any more animals for you that dog Lyla why did you tell me to stay home that day I'm sorry I I can't do this anymore you have to leave I don't know where you must be just a piece of me you are not more than I am so why can't you just leave please oh jeez that's creepy lla waltes towards us she asks him to clear his mind to make room for her but our dear William resists please stop with this nonsense will you know I can't leave you but something has to change don't worry too much about it it's important to just keep a clear mind it will be just like a swap of lenses in a kaleidoscope or Reals in a movie projector don't run from it just let me no no don't touch me Lyla made will kill a dog oh jeez what if the grotesque image we saw when strangling Martha was this sort of dither core lynchian representation of a dog a mutilated or dead dog this dog I think represents in some way the defiled empathy of William at the hands of his mother at the hands of this cult at the hands of Lila this is why William emerges through the most strong when we're react sadly to the dead dog in the mirror lla wouldn't be sad about this lla is making will do these things that sadness we show in the mirror perhaps is William's Motif the dead dog is the motif of Williams empathy it's interesting that this dead dog Motif and reacting to it in an empathetic way causes the meme if you will of William to emerge in this Avatar similarly to how the image of T causes the meme of Lila to reemerge in William's psyche there's this theme bits of data reminding you of something else that causes something else to reemerge it's the concept of a meme Hazard a small reminder causes the meme to reawaken in your head but I think this tells us something very key about William that William does in fact have empathy detective Fischer the hard ass cop saw something that we didn't see he saw the empathy in William he tells him sits him down telling him I know you have empathy William we run down some stairs and we see the veil Again flanked by pillars this is another entrance to the forest but instead of an Ascension we are descending passing the Veil triggers that odd noise again we see a tower in the distance evading Lila we pick up another pallet from an old column perhaps this is to signify the ancient nature of this realm perhaps lending Credence to Lila's possible ancient nature an old column I can't tell how old the pallet is called lilac Mania removing the seeve makes it Lila Mania if she catches up to us we restart from a checkpoint the image of Lila's jump scare looks like fractal shapes keep that in mind once we make it inside we see a spiral staircase similar to the one in the Wheel of Fortune ending we bait Lila to chase us down the stairs once we make it down we hop in the elevator outsmarting her interesting it took a downward spile to give William the momentum to rise above his predicament we enter what looks like a theater but this is a classic play looking theater not a movie theater despite this we enter this backst stage where all the reels go and where a projector is I believe this to be specifically Williams projector we examine junk reels and a pit like the pit of one's Soul the dark recesses of one's psyche giving you a little bit of a hint here so keep that in mind we pick up the other reel laya's reel we toss laya's reel into the pick you got the other reel it's useless now will you you think you've got the upper hand you're just delaying the inevitable it's no transposed on this scene are quick shots of a rendition of Carl yung's psychic model on top of that both have circular shapes the reals have six arms and the model has six sections I've been calling these reals Souls using the word person but really would the best way to describe them be psyches brace yourselves because we have just entered a new layer to this mystery I want to say this I'm not a psychologist I'm not a Psychology major okay I'm a College Dropout all right that being said we have passed the threshold in this game into the unconscience and it's very helpful that garage Heathen has given us this very quick sort of motif of the psyche the uh the model of the psyche as according to Carl Jung now not everybody goes by this model and in fact there's actually a more modernized version of this model that truncates the soul image and the Mana personality and instead looks at the anima and animus but anyways I won't be so reliant on this model of the psyche or at least my interpretations of this model because there's always a chance that I'll get something wrong and I don't want to have you sit here for God knows how many hours only for everything to just sort of Fall Apart because I got something mixed up but this will be a beautifully wonderful It's a Wonderful lens to look at the the game through on your own as well I'd love to see you guys in the comments or make your own videos trying to see you know Place various motifs in the game on this model and that's what we're going to be doing here we will be going back to this model when analyzing William psyche but right now we're kind of taking the motifs of who's Lila and putting him onto the psyche there's going to be overlap certainly but uh right now we're just kind of looking at the characters and motifs and placing them onto this model and for your convenience too I've created my own kind of model it's sort of like a side view of it but they're both basically the same thing there are three levels to the psyche there is the conscience the personal unconscience and the collective unconscience when we look at this model we almost see a spectrum at the very top we see how we present to the world and as we get closer to the middle it's how we interpret the world how we think within our inner world and then as we get to the very bottom it's where it all comes from the Persona simply put is the mask we wear it's the mask we wear and what we show the outer world for this reason I would say The Motif in this game that most fits the Persona would be the morphable portrait on the right side of our screen in the game the ego is what steers our interactions in this game think of almost I didn't put this on this model because it would be very confusing with just the black marker but imagine that there is this sort of stem that starts at the self entering into the ego there's a stem so there's almost like a neck a pivot if you will the way I interpret this is the ego is sort of the neck of the Persona the steering of the will there is a little bit of a a gradient the self where the self and the ego kind of meet but for the sake of this model I would say that the player's cursor sort of our interactions our input into the game is the ego so the player itself changes the face and all that stuff but our final emotional answer to these various interactions that is the Persona now the self evidently I had the hardest time with this the self for me is probably the hardest thing to Define on this model if you notice it's sort of underneath all these other aspects underneath the Persona the ego the Shadow the soul image the Mana personality or the animal or animus there is the self it's this sort of foundational thing it's who you are if all these things were Stripped Away but that's not really a helpful way to define something by defining it by what it's not this reminds me of what lla asks William in that Ascension segment when we uh right when we enter the veil and into the forest when she's on the window trying to Ego death mind F William she asks him something around the lines of who are you or how would you define you and William says well I like lemon soda I overthink sometimes I broke my leg when I was a kid and she stops him right there and says so you're basically your memories and your thoughts and to me I I I can't help but think that that is what the self is that when we strip everything away there's still these imprints from the soul image from the Shadow from the ego there's these imprints and so if we are playing as the fool Will if we are playing as this nameless husk will it would make sense that there are still these sort of imprints left by the the the sucked out will so for that reason or that was the reason why I would I said in the self that would be the Avatar or will the fool but that's still very flimsy and uh let's just move on but this might help think of the psyche as almost a ship out at Sea the Persona is the flag you know is it a pirate flag is it the friendly flag a Trader flag the ego is sort of the Mast that steers the sails it's the navigational wheel and the self is the hull itself it's the vessel for this ship and so I think that's why my brain really wants to make the self or associate the self with the motif of on the left side of the screen the playable Avatar that you move around and this game becomes a lot more interesting when you really break this you know piece apart these motifs the the the Avatar that you move around the Persona the face that you morph but didn't I say we're going to move on let's move on before getting into the shadow let me talk a little bit about the soul image simply put and this is a very Layman reduction of it the soulle image is your perfect match your perfect girl or perfect boy and or perfect everything in between according to Yung your soulle image is a contrasexual or opposite sex perfect match for who you are this is according to young but if we modernize it a little bit it's basically your perfect match your soulmate Soul image but this is there's a reason why it's called a soul image though not a soulmate because the perfectness is not like a objectively good perfect girl perfect boy whatever it's sort of someone that complements everything about your psyche perfectly even the insecurities it's the same way that Laya is a perfect match for William obviously you and I know she's no good for him and it's the same way that Mike is a perfect match for Tanya you and I both know he's no good for her the Mana personality is kind of tricky now this might not make sense to you right now who is what is the prince's gift well as the prince you know as the prince the player of this game our gift is the gays when we G why does that sound so funny my gift to the world the gays g a z e gays our gift to this game to the characters in this game and all of its various motifs and and characters and movers and shakers is our gay us looking at it giving attention to it we will explore this concept a lot more in depth in the herant ending so for that reason though I want to say the monop personality would be the prince's gift but what is the monop personality my apologies in all of human cultures and again I'm ditching my outline here so bear with me for a second in all the various different cultures of humanity and all of the minds of human beings we all have this idea of a sort of ruler a Creator there's some sort of there's always a motif of a of a god king an angel of God a shaman an emperor and perhaps this Mana this gift from God is this sort of Consciousness this ability of free will or whatever this this hardto Define thing X Factor that separates us from the rest of the fauna on this world so if we try to kind of convert my extremely imperfect view of what the Mana personality is is and we try to sort of jury rig it to fit who's Lila I would say our Attention our playing the game are obsessing over the game the mystery and all that stuff of who's lla that is the Mana personality that is the thing that unites all these characters together and and and sort of the gift that we give to them this will all make sense if it doesn't already uh towards the end of this video what what this gift and gaze and and keeping everything sustained is that is essentially it I know I'm missing stuff here I know that there's something there's a lot incorrect to this but there's got to be a reason why garage Heathen chose to use this model of the psyche and not the one that truncates mana and soul for anima anim moose so whatever I'm missing here I would love to hear what you guys think about this especially those who are very qualified in yungan Psychology or or phenomenology but like I said we're just looking at these various motifs through the lens of the psyche but we will be doing an appraisal of William psyche towards the end of this video and that would be a lot more solid than this regardless now that we finish the tower ending let's talk to detective youu if we enter 's office the Damon says still one of us and detective U senses it asking what is somebody there with you is detective you asking us the player if someone's there with you as an us or completely ignorant to us the players existence is detective you suddenly getting a hint that there's someone there as in that someone being us with Lila not a big keep in mind but nonetheless I feel that this somewhat reinforces my final theory in this video who is still one of us and who even is us because we exclusively get this message from the Damon in detective 's office I think the Damon is referring to detective U maybe the Damon is saying that despite detective U thinking he's an outsider looking in he is still very much a part of this game's World a part of its sort of equation maybe he's overestimated his position as a detective not realizing that he's much as a character in all this as the rest of these characters is the Damon telling us that he is not who we think he is that he's somehow linked to this fool even the ending he seems to have such an affinity for keep this demonic phrase in mind so the trickster gets tricked eh you could say so it wasn't a fair play will would have benefited so much from giving up his real what are these reals what's on them just garbage you humans collect throughout your life memories habits although sometimes you get something good are you referring to yourself well obviously you human still need something to see me as so you construct a projection of me the same way you con construct projections of other people you know all your identities are just silly pieces of film illuminated by the prince aren't you the same oh I'm much more detective please pick a card Lyla shows contempt for the mundane nature of human psyches calling them reals collections of junk but she has a very high opinion of herself considering herself to be an improvement to The Human Condition saying that will could benefited from giving up his wheel she believes herself to be Beyond this concept of the real and that the only reason the real has been a representation of her is because humans need something to project her onto she considers the reals as projections of other people as well perhaps the junk reels are the projections that will had picked up on from the various people in his life I think that's the most complete understanding of the real not specifically like plugin plug out software Souls of people but sort of imprinted memories and dispositions we're kind of playing with the idea again that people don't exist inside your mind the way they do outside of it you aren't experiencing a person purely for what they are but simply how they affect your psyche ooh we're going to get into some stuff like this and not that we need any more confirmation but she says all the these reals are silly pieces of film that are illuminated by the prince I'm pointing to me but you also their projection onto the projector requires the sustaining attention of us the player or the prince Lyla seems to be insistent that she is different from all these other reals Beyond these other people in this story but this sounds like her egotistical nature peeking through not any confirmation of her nature specifically lyla's the tower tarot signifies the status quo being shaken up foundations being upheaved in the Calamity that follows afterwards this sounds negative but when applied to a vampiric and manipulative relationship like that of with Lila this is a good thing it could signify a Revolt to an unjust system the upheaval of a malicious toxic coupling and that's what we see we see will decoupling from lla Lila losing control over will sadly that's a very temporary Affair judging from the events of the game but nonetheless will breaks up with the abusive and manipulative Lila but based on the timeline of all this this happening on the 13th of November that means just seven days later will meets Tyla Tyla Tanya for the first time and all that progress is sort of reversed and I don't have this written here or on my notes but in case I forget to mention this or dwell on this think of how laya's real is being thrown into this sort of dark abyss she's not being permanently forgotten because you can't permanently forget memes you can only temporarily forget them until they're reawakened again from a reminder reminder H reminder of a meme a Mee minder so what if the fact that her reel was thrown into this dark abyss where perhaps will through all these other Concepts that he wants to repress into and perhaps that is is where she meets his shadow I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself here so let's move on to the lovers flashback ending oh and I should mention to the tower is obviously a flashback to November 13th with the Damon we load up the game again we enter our kitchen we take a look at the countertop where the diary is and we see a key that wasn't there before the only place we know of that requires a key is Tanya's Locker you head to the school and the last the key opens the locker we examine a sticky note among other things the old sticky note reads oh Eng Graves don't forget to check out my Twitter my name is @ Tanya kennedy1 1899 the link is now copied to your clipboard so the ARG expands to Twitter [ __ ] we'll check this out but first let's take a look at her phone locked that figures perhaps our key lies on that Twitter page all right artart student that likes cappuccinos with lots of milk and esoteric literature and she's a [Music] cancer my heart is in shambles on November 29th we lost artania they found her in December there's nothing that can bring her back now Lord we give you our littlest angel I want this account to be a reminder of who Tanya was rest in peace my baby girl Ethan Kennedy November 29th is the estimated time that Tanya was murdered and note this tweet takes place on December 3rd remember today is the day her body no matter no matter what happens no matter what happens in the game The Day the game takes place Tanya's torso is found in Will's dumpster December 3rd would have been the day that this game takes place that her body is found a week ago roughly a week ago November 29th is when she would have been murdered we see a picture of a cat with a pendant the cat is in the same dithered style that this game is in that pattern on the pendant must be the key to entering this phone also remember that pendant we saw in one of the classrooms it has the very same shape with that distinctive Arrow here's a weird little bit of conjecture I wonder if this symbol is Tanya sigil we see this symbol on the pendant of the cat she says isn't this the ratest pendant Ever every time she unlocks her phone she set it up so that she swipes with her finger this sigil literally casting a spell and we see a pendant with this exact symbol next to the homework that we find regarding David Chalmer and qualia and whatnot when we were exploring all the different classrooms that's mainly the reason why I thought that was Tanya's homework one of the pages she's following on Twitter is a fan page for Alistar Crowley it's quite evident that she is a practice practitioner of the occult when in life when there is something that you want to achieve there's something that you want to put your mind and your being towards you essentially create this sort of focal point people call this many things they call it manifesting they call it the secret they call it chaos magic but it's ultimately this un actualized goal that you steer your mind and soul towards one of the ways you can help calibrate your mind according to the occult is creating a Sigil many people like to create their own sigils a Sigil that they associate with their themselves as a way of working on themselves focusing on themselves one of the things you do is you take your name you remove all vowels and repeating consonants let's say let's say let's say Tanya considers y to be a vowel so we have a t and an N with these remaining consonant create a symbol we see right here a very definite t and a pretty definite n and you could even consider that Arrow to be sort of an upside downish why so perhaps Tanya created her own sigil for the sake of self-improvement hold on William removing all the vowels repeating consonants we have a wlm w m [Music] I don't know where I would have fit the L but we have a w and M let's move on we should also pay attention to the dates that these were made at least some of them they may give us some interesting indication as to when certain events take place she talks about the daada dog stickers being put on lockers to harass people saying that they targeted Malcolm Michael Graves little brother the next tweet talks about Chad Murray being murdered we will come to find out that Chad Murray was the creator of this daada dog meme evidently he didn't intend for the meme to get out of control like this a conversation between Tanya and garage Heathen takes place and I just realized Tanya's profile pict picture is lla not Tanya this is that's confusing perhaps on a separate level this is the Emperor and the high priestess conversating conversing conversating I have an answer for why Lyla looks like Tanya I don't have an answer for why Tanya has lyla's profile picture as her Twitter I mean it's Twitter who gives a [ __ ] on April 21st Tanya makes a tweet about Malcolm being found dead strangled near the school evidently this horrible event is what put Tanya and Michael in each other's lives on April 21st Tanya makes a tweet regarding Malcolm being found dead Malcolm is the little brother of Michael Graves this is Little Malcolm Graves this cooperates when will or lla taunts Michael on the rooftop in that rare bit of dialogue saying you should be thankful that Malcolm was killed because after all if he wasn't murdered you and Tanya wouldn't be together what's interesting is that Malcolm died from strangulation the same Mo of the death of Tanya and the death of Martha so now I'm wondering did Lila kill Malcolm did will kill Malcolm Tanya makes the assumption that this group of sort of radical racists that have you know operate under the flag of this mimic being of the daada dog killed Malcolm simply for being black perhaps these racial terrorists were doing the bidding of this mimetic being of the daada dog and it just so happens that in this world of who's Lila mimetic beings that are malicious like to strangle people I don't know that's that's fat conjecture right there but it is interesting also that William or lla through William says something around the lines of oh Malcolm had such pretty eyes or something like that on that rooftop that rare dialogue I don't know it's all effed up Tanya mentions in another tweet about visiting the sunshine cafe a place that feels welcoming but strangely somber she gives an address we'll explore that address soon enough mind you at this point and onward with the tweets this all takes place before she met Michael another tweet is a picture again with the same dithering of the poem B's Beauty by Dante Gabrielle Rosetti the house of Life sonnet alxx v111 body's beauty of Adam's first wife Lilith it is told the witch She Loved Before the gift of Eve that Heir the snakes her sweet tongue could deceive and her Enchanted hair was the first gold and still she sits young while the Earth is old and subtly of herself self contemplative draws men to watch the bright web she can weave till heart and body and life are in its hold the rose and Poppy are her flowers for where is he not found o Leith whom shed scent and soft shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare lo as that youth's eyes burned at thine so went thy spell through him and left his straight neck bent and round his heart one strangling Golden Hair Lilith is a trickster and deceiver much like Lila is the hair being the first gold is something that will be relevant in the hierophant ending the final ending will be exploring so keep this idea of the first bearer of gold in mind this idea that a creation that is the first of its kind the mother to many more Treasures much like lla Lilith draws people in to witness the weaving of a web perhaps the webs of lla are these Vines we see in the beginning of the game we're getting caught in the brambles of her Forest we'll soon see Tanya's mention of flowers and poppies in a dream she recollects and we finish with a spell that leaves straight neck bent much like the mo of Lila strangulation now I'm really starting to wonder if there's some sort of overlap between Dada dog's posi strangling Malcolm and Lyla strangling Martha and Tanya another interesting thing is Dante Gabrielle Rosetti is also one of the artists behind the painting lady Lilith this is the same painting that we see in our apartment the one that leads us to the tower ending maybe after William met Tanya he browsed her Twitter looking for Intel and he discovered her affinity for Lilith and the artist Rosetti so he purchases a print of Lady Lilith to perhaps impress her fabricate something that they could have in common or maybe the purchasing of the Lilith painting is due to influencing from Lila or something else in the event that William through the Calamity forgets Lila this painting will still be some sort of fail safe every time he wakes up in the morning and he looks at this painting there's always going to be that chance that Lila l L will be recalled perhaps that's why we trigger the flashback ending of the Tower by looking at this painting even without meeting Tanya this painting would have been the big Achilles heel in Williams plan for Freedom tan then posts in the form of a tweet the poem Antigonish a poem written by William Hughes mrin in 1899 that's the number in Tanya's Twitter handle it will also be the hint to find a secret message at the end of our investigation the namesake of the poem is after Antigonish Nova Scotia and honestly I got nothing that would link these two together maybe Tanya is being haunted by something having nightmares perhaps visions of William before she ever met him I thought at first this was maybe symbolic of the events surrounding her death but I got nothing I think at the bare minimum this shows Tanya's precocious creativity and is meant to further enforce the 1899 numbers significance there's definitely something here given the fact that the author of this poem's name is William just like William Clark I can't help but wonder if the man who wasn't there the man upon the stair is that referencing William standing at the top of the stairs in the tower ending there's definitely something here and so I ask you comment below what you think and finally the very first tweet Tanya has ever made a picture of ekman's basic human emotion model so we've sifted through everything let's go put that code in we check out Tanya's text first use our text with William Clark one week ago William Clark 2:30 a.m. don't come I changed my mind Tanya what the hell dude now I'm totally coming 302 will you all right I'm not joking I don't want to see you anymore please don't come dude I can see something's wrong I don't care I know you're scared and trying to push me away again I'll be waiting for you there don't come if you don't want to but I'll be there now that's interesting they're texting at 3:00 a.m. it seems that they had plans to meet at that derel house will probably had a very bad feeling perhaps worried about seeing Tanya again worried about evoking Lila 3 a the 3:00 a.m. Motif is very interesting too because that's the time mentioned in the Antigonish poem perhaps linking the two events together he tells her not to come back again like the poet is telling the man at top the stairs being that these texts are happening in the early morning a week ago when Tanya first went missing it's likely that this final date Tanya and will share happened after these texts obviously Mike 9:45 p.m. it's all right you don't have to like them Tanya 9:45 p.m. I know it's all I know it's all right and I don't especially Danny Mike I got you he's a jerk and a wanker boy I don't get why you still let him F around with Martha's feelings I'll talk to him I don't care at this point come on don't be like that now two months ago it's because I'm an effing failure Mike stop saying that about yourself come on Mike face it can't you see it at least I'm not blind I see how you're suffering from all the crap I'm doing to you look I don't care about that I know you love me and I love you isn't that what matters are you stupid Mike there's no way I deserve to be loved like that by anyone out of all people you don't need a burden like me BS I love you we all do want to call I'm going to bed one week ago this is when Tanya went missing Mike at 12:12 a.m. where are you look I know you don't want to talk babe but come on you can't play with me like this I'm going crazy here where the f are you Tanya Tanya Tanya aside from getting a view into Michael and Tanya's relationship and Tanya's deep insecurities we don't really get too much new information if the text that Tanya had with William happened at 3:00 a.m. a week ago then the initial where are you texts were received by Michael while she was still alive perhaps she didn't want to text Graves back because she planned on cheating on him him with will the text with Michael that happened at 3:30 and onward I want to say is when Tanya was already dead so it starts off as her ghosting him but then at some point tragically she she dies these are texts with Martha you delete the chat without reading and we can't click on it anymore I wonder what lla has against Martha I wonder what could have been on those texts what Lyla is trying to cover up she knows we are watching so whatever she deleted she didn't want us the player seeing this is with Ellie Cooper one week ago Gorge you there yeah sorry just texted Martha about you know yeah so what was that dream you had Tanya's text with Martha are something that she didn't feel comfortable texting about explicitly with Ellie and in a way we're lucky that it worked out that way because Lyla then would have instinctually deleted the text just like she did with Martha's because of this we have a very interesting view into the life of Tanya in the form of this dream she recollects so what was that dream you had you wanted to tell me remember yeah it was a cool one I was like this gorgeous woman sitting among poppies and roses and a myriad of other flowers we can also hear tania's Motif playing at this moment which I didn't know the name of completely nude and there was this faint music playing in the air and like my hair was golden for some reason completely golden I was combing them with a beautiful comb adorned with many little symbols I think it was copper holy crap that's a detailed dream did it end there no after a while I've noticed something strange it was like one of the poppies was different from the rest its Bud was hanging lower than the others and so I came closer to it as I turned to look inside it turned out there was a I've seen by own face I've seen my own face perhaps but um the eyes in the mirror were insane they weren't mine they were you quickly delete the remaining messages so in Her Dream she took the form of Lilith or perhaps was perceiving in the point of view of Lilith the description is very close to not only the Rosetti poem but also the painting Lilith peers inside one of the flowers to see a mirror reflecting the face of Tanya but something was off about her eyes something about the eyes something about the dream made lla delete the text messages lla is hiding something I know it something I believe she's insincere about scared about being known I want to say this now because I worry it'll slip my mind but what if Lyla is insecure about not being as ancient and primordial as she claims what if she is just one flower of the many Treasures in Lilith's Garden H not sure sadly I don't think I end up re-exploring that in this video H it's an interesting thought anyways let's press on and the last text message you are in great you are in great danger girl call me or visit my website at link blocked the final text is from a number not from Tanya's contacts keep this number in mind and while the website is blocked we will be exploring it soon enough in the herant ending now all that's left is to sift through her notes this first one is a shopping list perhaps o is supposed to be OJ one of the many words in this game that are mispelled the second note is a note to herself this is her new apartment and the destination is of another flashback ending the lovers ending we go back to the bus stop and go to Tanya's new address [Music] but but this is so wrong isn't it I guess so yeah do you love me will yeah yeah I think I do what's wrong I'm sorry I just feel weird to say that for some reason I mean I I get it if I were you I wouldn't trust myself either no no no no it's not about that you just remind me of someone I knew is that so honestly I feel a bit offended but after what I did to Mike I don't really deserve anything better do I but aren't you aren't you lla huh what was that you said aren't you lla what if this is a joke I don't get it who's Lyla some girl you like no no it's I don't remember who that is I don't I don't remember I don't remember will will are you all right will yeah yeah I'm all right my face just doing as Shenanigans again I guess don't worry [Music] dear it's difficult for me to express emotions I envy other people they make faces naturally but I have to make a conscious decis something's wrong not now what the hell's going on will tell her to be quiet Will's not here anymore please be quiet everything's all right what's gotten into you what what if this is a prank don't even bother calling me after this what the f is this in your arms I don't understand William this is too much it's you don't look like him at all well what's happened to you see will this is what you get for trying to get rid of me watch carefully you can begin sure there's no need to scream Tanya you don't scream everything's Laya was evoked by the utterance of her name from the mouth of Tanya you can see when Will's demeanor changed it's likely meant that lla rested control of his body and what's interesting is we see Laya The Stranger and will all in the same room indicating them as different entities or parts of the psyche at the behest of Lia The Stranger kills Tanya and this is all happening in Will's kitchen they went from the place being the derel house to Tanya's house to Will's house the strange inconsistency could just be a product of Will's reconstruction of that horrible experience it's morbidly fitting that Tanya is standing where the trash bag saw and Tanya's key were anyways now all that's left is to talk about this ending with Detective you poor William he deserved it you after all killing that [ __ ] was his idea I don't believe you why not detective well thought she was me I guess he hated me that much he thought I came back for him I only helped him finish what he started will is not a killer we seem to have exhausted the cards to talk about we can go over them again if you'd like but we don't have to again I'm going to treat lyla's words as deception dressed over the truth as we saw Will broke down and Lyla took control at that point onward will was no longer in control I don't believe Lilo and she says oh it was William that killed Tanya and she only came in to clean up the mess she was operating before the murder and in control but I will believe that Will was desperate that will probably would have killed Tanya if he thought she was lla and that killing her would somehow stop her not out of malice for Tanya but out of malice for lla the symbology is straightforward we see William and Tanya having an affair they're both lovers and this is the lovers you tarot we're talking about but here's the thing the lovers Tarot signif if a sort of Harmony in a relationship and I wouldn't exactly you know consider William and Tanya having this sort of Love triangly Affair as harmonic perhaps in a strangely ironic way Tanya's likeness and evoking of the phrase who's Lila bringing back Lila into William's body ultimately reuniting will and Lila together in the sort of ironic cynical Twisted way a Harmon Harmony is a Harmony in this toxic relationship perhaps the lovers in this case are not will and tan but will and Lila tarot symbology speaking but maybe it is describing will and Tan's relationship maybe there is a Harmony that could have happened if it weren't for Lila's meddling aside from that the Lover's ending in Tarot is quite simple so let's move on to the sun ending this one is straightforward just take the address to the cafe that Tanya mentions in her Twitter 200 Grand Beaver Avenue once entering we can interact with a cup of coffee which unlocks the coffee beans palette a cup of freshly made coffee you wonder who it's for the exterior beyond the window looks like the background of the main menu we take our seat and the waitress approaches us coffee as usual Lyla she doesn't wait for you to answer thanks detective you's been here earlier today huh really yep he didn't ask anything about you though hm makes sense he doesn't even need to that sneaky jerk yeah is he still figuring out you know who you are well obviously we wouldn't be here if he wasn't would we well yeah have you thought that maybe he's just giving us some more time out of pity I mean it could be that he already knows that you're a sh shut up sorry I'm just season oh come on you know you's listening even now sure otherwise I wouldn't be here talking to you you must think he's really powerful mustn't he guess so he's clearly good at figuring things out a nosy guy I'd give him that well at the end of the day his curiosity is what's keeping us alive that and his pain yeah poor guy actually to think how much of the time he gives us is filled with suffering what's he doing it for then he hopes that he hopes for that slither of satisfaction our world is built so gives him little pieces of info so he feels as though he's getting somewhere doesn't he realize that 90% of his time consists of pain and only like 10% is goodness I don't know even so he's a machine of pain a suffering generator as all human beings are at least at least his attention is what keeps well come on now don't give out too much okay hold on they're like repeating themselves anyways well come now don't give it that's so weird it's so so strange I'm just realizing that now well come now don't give out too much I know we haven't talked in a long time but he is listening yes you'll pester me about this for sure when I come back do you have to it's up to him it's up to you to decide well thanks for coming today I rarely see you these days yeah I kind of missed all this [Music] I honestly think we've been a few steps ahead in this investigation at least in this video and this is because I've gone through this game many many times and I'm packaging all my findings in one single video one single go but if this was your first time playing the game and discovering the sun ending it's very likely at this point you still may not have noticed the fact that you in detective u sounds a lot like y u you the way detective U is searching for answers is in the the same way that you are searching for answers so this would be the sort of explicit reveal when Lila says it's up to you to decide detective you simply being you is just the first layer to all of this CU in reality detective you is not you detective you is a character perhaps a symbolic representation of your detective work but he's much more than simply being referential to your desire to learn the truth he is able to be in areas beyond the Locust of our control much like how the rest of these characters have an independent place in this story detective you's been here earlier today the waitress isn't referring to us the player even if this was your first time on a fresh save she would still say the same thing now I wasn't there earlier but detective you was when Lyla says you know you is listening even now she doesn't say detective you she says just why you you maybe this is meant to mean both detective VI and we the player as in The Prince and although we and detective VI are both listening now if it weren't for the player listening they wouldn't be there talking to each other although both detective you and you the player are good at figuring things out it'll come to a point where our knowledge surpasses the knowledge of detective you and when we first start playing the game detective you knows things that we don't know in fact there is one thing that he will know that would be impossible for us to know even after our investigation when we realize these boundaries between us the player and detective you the lines start to blur a little less and let me remind you our curiosity our attention is what keeps this world alive I don't think detective youu has that same power Lyla believes that most of the time we give is filled with suffering perhaps poking fun at the frustration of trying to figure everything out in the beginning the waitress and lla talk about detective you who was there earlier but the latter half of their conversation they're talking about you the player at least primarily who is listening even now alongside detective you now let's move on to our discussion of the sun ending with Detective you what was that all about machine of pain me you love it when it's all about you don't you what I I mean I don't care we can talk about something else if you'd like what did she you mean when she said that my curiosity keeps you alive you are so close to finding out the truth do you realize that detective just answer my question lla why are you saying that it's up to me come on detective you're almost there I don't I I can't yet please can't you just tell me detective U knows that Lila feeds on attention but he's confused as to to what she means when she said that this curiosity keeps her alive not fed alive that's because he doesn't have the same power that you and I the player do lla says you are so close to finding the truth her face is nervous almost defeated I think she's both addressing us and the detective she asks if the detective realizes that and he doesn't pick up what she's getting at despite her egging him on saying almost there detective but he says he can't not yet not he can't figure it out or oh I'm stumped but I can't I can't solve it not yet some sort of mortality is seeping in detective you is almost afraid of the closure as Lila is once detective youu gives up it looks almost like lla is relieved both of them are equal benefactors of us the prince giving them attention I think detective U is a separate character from us perhaps he can see what we see but he doesn't know what we know he is a programmed character whose knowledge can't grow past his coding perhaps detective U is a pretender and that the real detective is us we don't exactly know just yet but I'm very confident in the player being the perceiver the prince the projector we the player are a mover in this game a character in this game both separate from detective view but in some ways IND discernible we'll get into that anyways let's press on with the sun symbology perhaps we shouldn't let confusion and overthinking get in the way of enjoying the mystery we should be happy that we're even able to put these puzzles together solve these smaller mysteries in this more Grand mystery after all the the Revelation that detective you is somehow linked to you the player is an Illuminating reveal the sun much like the sunshine cafe is a place of Illumination perhaps garage heathen's intention was for the player to end off on the note of the sun ending but we have one more ending to go and that is the hopan ending in fact I'm kind of worried that it was gash heathen's intention that we do the hero Fant ending when we did the temperance ending so we're kind of like well it could be any order honestly but I'm pretty certain that the sun is supposed to be the sort of final ending that most players would come across in fact I think that was the last ending I came across in my first playthrough so the tarot significance in the sun ending we are being hinted at in a koi way the nature of Lila the nature of the mystery of who's Lila the nature of detective you and us the player and how we're linked together things are still blurry after all it wouldn't be a mystery if we were just straight up given the answer but so much is illuminated and and sort of reinforced that this is actually a very fulfilling and sort of Illuminating ending and so that's why perhaps it's the sun ending in the cafe is called the sunshine cafe because the sun signifies fulfillment a coming Joy Of course illumination now let's move on to we're going to get beefy again ladies and gentlemen the hant ending we go back to the scorched Apartments this time with the Damon assisting us we enter the first room with the rotary telephone the Damon gives us numbers to punch in once we do that we see the face of Father Lawrence fade in who who is this I must have dreamed it father Lawrence is that is that you Lawrence Lawrence that was what they called the last vessel wasn't it William is that you William yes it's me it's me Father Lawrence where are you what happened I thought you died in that fire where are you I'm at a strange strange place my dear William but we deserve this I should have never tricked you all my egoism has led to their death and to your consequent suffering a turn of the wheel what do you mean father Lawrence she mustn't continue what I started I thought I thought the empress was the one to uh cease her but Lila seems to be way too clever to fall victim to such tricks there's another another way Ripkin this was the name of your colleague right yes I was too foolish and power hungry I suppose but now it's all but now it's all vain you are the only one I wouldn't want to suffer from it so here is the code you seek it's from the from the desktop computer I used you will find all the information there 822 when father Lawrence refers to himself as the last vessel it makes me wonder who is the current vessel it's as if Will is the vessel for Lila at this moment of the flashback and now as we play the game we the player are the vessel we speak to Father Lawrence in the same place we meet the emperor they both even fade in very similarly and both talk about a vessel father Lawrence is the previous vessel and so I think it's safe to say that we the player are the current one he laments his egoism fooling the he laments his egoism fooling the fraternity members we will see what he means by this in a moment he then refers to hoping that the emperor would be the one to cease Lila but Lila outsmarted her interesting keep this in mind we will soon understand one of the possible identities for the empress but remember this in the reverse Empress tarot discussion detective you asks lla about her mother perhaps the empress is Lila's mother this colleague of Lawrence's rekin plays an insane role in this game's universe so keep him in mind in order to make things right and protect William father Lawrence gives William the code to the computer that we couldn't access in the reverse Emperor ending with Lawrence hanging up we hear the same strange noise again I'm starting to think that this is the noise that plays when a character ceases and reawakens phasing in and out of the game escape the noise plays when Lyla is ceased by the empress but also it plays when strn randomly appears behind us on that catwalk that's the correlation but what is the true symbolic meaning now that I think about it it is kind of interesting how we call Lawrence just as data is called in programming but now I'm just now I'm just getting jiggy with it again on the computer we find a locked document and a link to a website following the website leads us to this Angel Fire looking ass website it's a long screed titled the words of rekin rekin being the colleague of Father Lawrence at the top of ripken's website we see a censored phone number and what looks like an address that phone number was the one that texted Tanya saying that she was in danger perhaps that blocked link led to the words of Ripkin website if Ripkin was aware of Tanya what else does he know he starts his website with this point imagine if humans rather than being the generators of Consciousness were in a sort of parasitic relationship with it what if the Consciousness was an underlying inseparable factor of reality existing outside of and unconditioned by human brains he says be human brains but it's I think by human brain in all caps he says we know animals don't possess Consciousness how did humans come about it and why does Professor Ripkin find the word possess to be inaccurate in this context are you confused don't worry let's reel it in a bit with a good oldfashioned whiteboard segment What If instead of human beings possessing Consciousness it was Consciousness that possessed humans in other words instead of human beings being a generator of Consciousness Consciousness was this external entity for lack of a better word that entered our minds and we generated Consciousness from there almost like we are a projector of Consciousness what makes human being so special that we are conscious beings and animals aren't and why is consciousness so immeasurable Ripkin believes he has the answers to these questions in order to understand ripken's answer as to why Consciousness is immeasurable we have to answer the question how is it immeasurable what do I mean when I say Consciousness is immeasurable philosopher David Chalmers coined a term hard problems of Consciousness now if you remember David Chalmers is the philosopher that is mentioned in Tanya's homework when we were searching through the classrooms at school in order to understand what a hard problem is let's figure out what an easy problem is an easy problem is a problem whose means of solving its answer is tenable measurable solvable for example I have a piece of raw beef and I need to make it safe to eat and that's very simple simply introduce enough heat so that all the microbiology inside of the beef is killed making it safe for a human being to consume now that's one example of an easy problem but mind you the word easy and easy problem doesn't mean ease of solving but simply ease of understanding how to solve let me give you another example Steven Pinker a psychologist joked about how another example of an easy problem is curing cancer or figuring out a way to live on Mars obviously that's something that we haven't achieved yet but over time with money material Manpower these things can be logically solved let's go back to the stake for a second if you notice within the problem of making raw beef safe to eat there are a bunch of different measurements there's the temperature of which we cook the steak there is the weight the volume of the steak the level of moisture after the fact when we eat it it's effect on our body all of these things are measurable and here's where things get a little bit tricky when it comes to talking about the hard problems of Consciousness if I asked you what does the steak taste like that would be easy enough because even our language sort of understands the hard problem of Consciousness we're not asking you measure the taste of steak we're asking you what does it taste like it tastes salty it tastes meaty that's very helpful it tastes Umami well what does umami taste like uh well it's the taste of meat so we're just entering a cycle of similes but no what is it what is the taste of steak we know the weight of the steak we know the heat of the steak we can measure the amount of protein and salt and blood in the steak and that contributes to The Taste but how do we measure the taste you put your fork into the piece of meat you can do all sort if you had all the lab equipment in the world you could answer so many different questions but Boom the moment the meat touches your tongue and the sense goes from your tongue your taste buds into your brain that is that is the biggest mystery to the human mind why is this what is this what is this phenomenon this see because unlike curing cancer and living on Mars hard problems have Consciousness cannot be solved with enough manpower funding and resources that is because of something tricky and sticky that something is qualia I feel like I'm doing great right now again qualia is something that is mentioned in Tanya's homework I'm going to take Frank Jackson's definition of qualia and I'm going to try to put it through a Layman reductive lens to make easier to chew on this is definitely going to be an imperfect definition but for the sake of this video sake of your foundational edification I think it's going to be a helpful sort of a heuristic yeah I dip my toe into phenomenology for one second all of a sudden I'm using words like heuristic some so here are some examples of qualia the taste of steak the pain of a stomach ache the sight of the color red those are examples so qualia is a bodily sensation or a perspective experience something you sense or something you see whose measurement isn't contained in the world of physical information so in this Grand world of physical information sights sounds measurements Heights widths we cannot find the information that could measure a bodily sensation or a perspective experience making it a qualia so that's the reverse now here's what's interesting the color red is measurable if if we had the equipment we could measure the light that's bouncing off of it bouncing off of it and hitting your cornea certain so so certain lights are being absorbed and certain lights are being uh uh reflected we can measure the kinds of materials that are being used to create this red marker the Plastics the dyes and all that stuff however the moment the color red hits my cornea and my eye transfers that information the experience that I'm going through my brain is going through from witnessing the redness of this color is immeasurable to go even more reductive think of that question how do I know that my red is the same as your red how do I know that the red that you see is my yellow and my yellow is your red we can measure the acidity of the stomach we can measure the food you ate how much bioactivity is going on if we had the equipment which that does exist but the experience of pain for any individual person is impossible to men measure so we know what qualia is we know that it's a big part of what makes the hor problem of Consciousness so hard going back to Ripkin so according to Ripkin because our brains this system of meat and fluid that sits in our Cranium is so incompatible with Consciousness it isn't unreasonable to posit that perhaps Consciousness exists in a way that is totally unrelated to our brains externally if you will from our brains this is where the prince comes in as humans our brains have evolved to mimic the inner workings of the prince or grand Consciousness so well that when the prince sees us they think they're looking in a mirror so when the prince sees us dancing so when the prince sees us dancing they think it would be fun to dance along with us what's odd is that Ripkin says this this is when the pain and suffering of the prince starts or emerged I should say keep that in mind according to Ripkin because human beings on their own are nothing they benefit from having the grand Consciousness in them to mimic and this Grand Consciousness ultimately leads to the prevailing of the human race and perhaps in a mimetic way the grand Consciousness gains the benefit of mimetically reproducing among all the various humans whose brains have evolved to be so spongy to the Grand Consciousness ultimately making us more smarter or conscious than the rest of the fauna in this biosphere this is an interesting idea on its own if we retooled it in some ways you could probably find a discipline of phenomenology that already exists in our world but remember this Ripkin as far as I know lives in the world of who Lila the humans he's referring to are not us but the characters we see on the screen the prince is us we are the prince or princes when we see these characters on the screen we see ourselves they've been programmed and coded in such a way that they mimic us perfectly but these are just pixels on a screen programmed and coded and yet they mimic us so well that we think it would be fun to play with them or in other words dance with them in the form of the video game of who's lla or really any game or movie or piece of media we've ever enjoyed the reason why King says this is when the pain emerges for the prince is because we ultimately know that these characters are not real without us the prince they cease becoming nothing we feel but they don't they're just pixels on a screen but yet they've imprinted on us in such a way that it affects us think of the pain of when you have think of that connection you feel when you have a a favorite comfort character on a TV show and you've grown attached to it maybe in a TVV show they end up getting killed off or the season or sorry series ends these are feelingless characters on a screen and yet because we are seeing their existence extinguish it hits straight at our empathy and we discover an all newer fear more than the fear of losing a loved one more than a fear of dying but a fear of utter ex existential obliteration the characters on the screen Aren't Dead they cease and so we the prince are seeing a simulated obliteration of existence and because of our empathy it is extremely painful to experience yeah I think that's the best I can do with this yep I think I did I think this I think we did good there's this picture of a figure that's heavily obscured by pixels in this world's Pantheon the prince is depicted in this way in the style of what seems to be sort of Buddhist art huh when I was talking about mudras earlier I must have subconsciously I think I did the exact same thing that's interesting wow we're getting lynchy in here Ripkin talks about the fate of Chet Murray the artist who created daada dog remember from Tanya's Twitter she Mourns him being murdered Ripkin gets hard to follow at this point so I'll do my best to translate because of the gift of the grand Consciousness human beings have naturally achieved this ability to create works of art that similarly mimic the nature of the prince in that these works of art procreate mimetically if human beings don't possess Consciousness but Consciousness possesses humans perhaps you perhaps humans don't possess memes but memes possess humans thus the daada dog meme grew and mutated beyond the intention of its creator and somehow controlled a massive extremist to kill its creator cck muri this is a big keep in mind keep this concept of memes and the possible forces that inhabit these memes being entities that require our Consciousness to not only stay alive but do their bidding lastly Ripkin discusses the existence of a Control process for creating Ultra influencing works of any Media or UAMS at first it was believed that these kinds of memes or Ultra influencing works could only be created intuitively or in other words as part of the natural fle free flowing you know art creation process but it turns out there is a way to intentionally create them that this redacted order had long figured it out and suppressed the methods of its existence and has used this method to create UAMS to control Society for malicious purposes Professor or as We Know Him Father Lawrence also devised a way to create these ums and control them but a special government agency shut him down down shut him down hm this must be the fire the one that destroyed everything to do with the fraternity and the only other government agency characters we know about are detective U from the FBI keep this in mind we follow the link to garage heathen's ichio page with a PDF to download to unlock the download we find the password in answers. text located in the Damon game files the password is parasites we download classif if.pdf and a [ __ ] [Music] seriously this is detective York I need you to patch me through to Captain o jobs I'll need the answer to your three security questions what does the redacted do to the video the astrologist to the star the lover to their lover a B3 op what are french tips made out of cilic detective what the hell is the update with tracking down Floy coock alphabet patching you through now now detective what the hell is the update with tracking down floppy coock I wanted to tell you about a dream I had last night well spit it out I was laying in bed trying to sleep until I saw a face peering out of my closet in hindsight it should have scared the hell out of me but for some reason the word hermit kept repeating in my head without words he indicated that he knew I wanted to find flaw peacock then I heard him speak what once stood tall now used to walk a shroud adorned with a peacock what was once beneath our feet now rests above our head you seek a clean slate made of cotton [Music] thread and then suddenly it was morning I woke up from my dream but it was as if I never fell asleep I woke up wearing a green apron and with a food handlers card in my pocket I think you know what you need to do now detective yeah I'm afraid so H the Tanya Twitter page and then the words of rkin website and now this PDF okay the introduction to the PDF indicates that this is an instruction manual written by rkin on proper um creation for Lawrence's Eyes Only and Anthropologist Marcel grial and his research on the Doon tribe rituals are cited as sources the Doan tribe will be mentioned again later and I'll briefly touch on them then the document first seeks to Define what a um is through part one part one of the document talks about how in the olden days works of Arts would surface from time to time that would prove very powerful relatable and popular as these Works propagated among masses of humans and human Minds its power would manifest by forming the Zeitgeist or culture of the time typically far beyond the intentions and expectations of the artwork's initial creator with the introduction of the worldwide web the meme as it's colloquially known was created or maybe it emerged I don't know if created is the right word compared to other influencing works it has a significantly shorter lifespan but its ability to spread is unprecedented memes come and go but once in a while a meme has the same power as artworks of old did and thusly are capable of social engineering these artworks and memes that have this level of Power are also called UAMS or Ultra influencing work of any media they are traditionally created spontaneously and naturally but they are always inherently Ault the document cites an article an article that exists only in the universe of who's Lila about vast cattle Farms found near the Pentagon indicating that even the government is partaking in this and is utilizing animal sacrifice I'm reminded of the fraternity's animals the one that William helped tend to part two indicates that the goals of Ripkin and Lawrence are with benevolent intentions Ripkin volunteers himself to transcend The Human Condition but the purpose as well as the rest of part two is classified part three indicates a methodology first King gives two reasons as to why it's imprudent to try and use already existing naturally created ums the first reason is unpredictability it's impossible to indicate if a work of art was just fleetingly popular or truly was a Ultra influencing work the common quality of all uamps however is that they all have some aspect of patronage to a new sphere dweller let me explain you and I live in a biosphere planet Earth our e ecosystem whereas mimic beings thought forms deities principalities live in the psychosphere the brain sphere or in this case called a news sphere so in order for a um to be powerful it needs a for lack of a better term God at its Helm now this obviously presents risks the second reason against using pre-existing um and new sphere dwellers is that the um will be used at the whim of this new sphere dweller and since attempts to control and contact these Gods is out of the question for some reason at least according to Ripkin then it makes it impossible for us to have any influence on the use of the UAM imagine a dog with two leashes attached to him you're holding one of the leashes but the other leash could be held by anybody could be held by the Archangel Michael it could be held by a huro MDA or it could be held by Satan are you really going to take that risk rkin also men mentions that some artists do indeed use certain redacted to contact new sphere dwellers or again Gods but the use of this redacted substance doesn't increase the controllability of the um or new spere dwellers and typically leads to the absolute annihilation of the artist I believe that this redaction is supposed to be drugs or psychedelics like the te mushrooms that makes sense artists have used te mushrooms or psychedelics in the past but they don't guarantee any sort of increased control over a um or a new sphere dweller that kind of makes sense it will make even more sense when we explore the game Shier so if contacting a pre-existing God is out of the question then the only answer is to create a new God or create an artificial new sphere dweller the process that rkin develops for creating artificial new sphere dwellers is a modified version of the Doan tribes traditional rituals in the who Lila Universe the Doan tribes had figured out a way to contact a more amiable and higher tier new sphere dweller rkin refers to this God as wait for it Snake Eyes so the Doon tribe figured out how to contact the emperor and in case I haven't fully established this idea the emperor garage Heen its logo snake eyes and maybe even the Damon itself are all representations of the developer in our world but in this world a major God of that Universe its creator the process for creating the artificial new spere dweller goes like this to reinforce the psychic base of this dweller's existence so a constant Foundation of attention worship and sacrifice the fraternity of Lawrence was established each member was told to create a talpa with a predetermined appearance over time as more mind power went towards reinforcing this new sphere dweller it changed on its own and became Lively in the document the creature is is referred to as l so this dweller they're creating is Lyla remember strn and will both know her as Lila by name so it's safe to assume this was the name that the entire fraternity was using and they all called this dweller by Lila I only say that because I wasted a lot of time and brain power trying to figure out oh what if l means Lilith what if l means something else but let's not forget the the obvious rkin states that they were sure to not accidentally invite any existing deity into the process as it would produce uncontrollable consequences he also cautions from using archetypes from redacted because they historically produced calamities I think the redaction is supposed to be tarot or tarot Arcana since it is kind of a long redaction like the actual sensor bar based on the tarot theming of this game the Calamity and of course the uncontrollable consequences it's safe to say that somewhere in their process the fraternity effed up but let's ignore that for a moment and read on they created the dweller to have vampiric qualities requiring some sort of input from humans to exist so in order for L to exist she needs some level of sacrifice but instead of human sacrifices they opted for a more quantitative easily farmed but less powerful animal sacrifice this would explain str's dog Motif and the cattle that will noted in his dial now here's the kicker the contingency plan in place for if control is lost over l or Lila the protocol for regaining control can be found on a locked document on the main computer the computer in the scorched apartment the password is first gold as in the hair of Lilith being first gold so much for not invoking other new spere dwellers the last page of this PDF goes over some EX examples of um possibly from the supposed Lila pipeline but first we now have what we need to answer the question so why does Tanya look like lla because Lawrence messed up instead of creating a new artificial new sphere dweller he invoked Lilith or the new sphere dweller that once inhabited the um of Lilith the ancient um of Lilith think about the hubris it takes to think that you could actually create a new sphere dweller that isn't derivative whatsoever literally creating a brand new deity it's impossible re kein and Lawrence didn't account for the collective unconsciousness and so this whole process was basically tainted from the start by an already pre-existing new sphere dweller for the sake of Simplicity we're going to refer to her as Lilith first of all they named this new sphere dweller Lila l i l sharing the first three letters of Lilith they made this facade you know the image of this new sphere dweller a beautiful woman the [ __ ] made the password for the contingency protocol first gold a reference to the poem that refer that that is a poem to Lilith either the collective unconsciousness served the Lawrence fraternity a really bad hand or the moment I mean the sheer moment that Lilith was invoked she was influencing all of that she made it so that you know like oh let's make it a beautiful woman let's make the contingency protocol first gold that's probably the more likely scenario just the moment l i l boom derivative done so what must have happened was Lilith was unintentionally re awoken and evoked by the Lawrence fraternity the the fraternity successfully creates Lila but lla is not a new sphere dweller but a highly complex U like all other ums Lila is inhabited by Lilith unbeknownst to the lawren fraternity now Tanya had shown some past affinity for Lilith even putting on her Twitter the poem that refers to her hair being first gold so she has a dream of Lilith sitting among the flowers where she then sees either Tanya or Lila's face in a mirror reflecting off of one of the flowers and so who knows what kind of medling Lilith did to get Tanya and will William and the Lawrence fraternity all in the same vicinity or perhaps it was just a coincidence but nonetheless she sees in the mirror Tanya's Vis Vis then I believe that over time as the Lawrence fraternity is enforcing the image of Lila Lilith is subconsciously subliminally influencing them to think of Tanya and so over time l or Lila slowly began to look like Tanya this is why they both look very similar but not exact cuz in the end there's imperfections you know in people's brains kind of going back to the hard problem of Consciousness my Lila is not the same thing as your Lila just as my red might not be the same as your red and so anyways Lila and so anyways Laya is effectively changed and so anyways Laya ends up looking like Tanya setting up this chain of events suffering intrigue mystery pain all feeding Lilith and so at least this particular story is a story of hubris trying to create God trying to create a power of creation a deity o we're going we see a lot of reversals like this in this story actually huh but I'm getting ahead of myself but this is ultimately when we uh remember Tanya this is ultimately I think one of the tragedies of Tanya's fate is you know her precocious Young woman who was into the occult fine you know big deal but then the hubris of Lawrence and gkin everything together it's just it's it's it's a Pity but let let's move on before I get emotional oh who am I kidding with with a whiteboard like this oh no we're got to I gotta I got to give I got to give my my whiteboard erasing homies what they want we eating good tonight all right let's move on the final page confirms that the fraternity was able to establish some sort of pipeline the list gives four examples one um is nearly fully redacted with the only information being shown is that it was cancelled and its lifespan was 98 hours the second example picture is redacted but its name was of leg bones or o leg bones based on the description and 8mth standard lifespan this seems to be just a standard um or perhaps just even a standard non-ultra influencing meme the third example is of daada dog a still active um and is noted to not be El's child the fourth example is interesting known as T this is the first successful child of L so so does this mean that this is the first successful um created from this artificial pipeline or is this a special um that is supposed to be the child of Lila or a Lilith depending on the screen you are viewing this PDF on you can see a very faint image of the character from Tachi she goes by different names like to tomho Sarena but at the end of the day all these names have t Tachi your amazing Tachi the game itself is interesting but for the sake of organization save analyzing peripheral gra peripheral games towards the end this Tu will be a better understood in the game your amazing Tachi and rkin story and methodology will be better understood in the game shasti we are getting closer to a more substantial understanding of Lila's possible origin based on the faded out image of the teachi girl I think it's safe to say that te is the teachi girl it is interesting this document says that Tachi is an offspring of L which I think is safe to say is Lila and if you think what other character's name starts with the letter t we have Tanya now Tanya isn't a umum as far as I know but she does have veneration to Lilith so it is kind of interesting in a sort of abstract way this te girl is a daughter of you know L lla and this te girl is a you know a daughter of veneration of Lilith now I just can't help but wonder if there's a link between Tanya and and Tachi girl I don't know so let's finally do it this is the model I think best delineates the boundaries between Lilith and lla it is my hope that we can have a better understanding of who's Lila not lla who's Lila's nature through this model Lilith herself is a sort of UAM the symbol of the Moon and cross the Mythos of being the first wife of Adam like a um all these aspects have been pasted on her transforming her over time and depending on who you ask she's either this wicked nocturnal Tempest or a defiant benevolent High Priestess we're not talking about the um of Lilith we're talking about the new sphere dweller the deity that occupied that UAM so the new sphere dweller known as Lilith occupies the um of Lila but Lyla is a complex um she has her own desires her own goals in a way Lawrence did somewhat succeed in creating this sort of artificial dweller because we do see it clash with Lilith wanting her own source of attention and yet still having to show some level of difference as we see in the Reversed Empress ending if you consider the boiler lady to be Lilith and of course lla dwells within William this is the model of understanding Ila the character in the game but the Lila that William tussles with I believe isn't the same lla that we tussle with not entirely we don't tussle with lla we tussle with who's lla so the mystery of who's lla so we have this sort of software right baked in we have Lilith William that's in the grasp of lla which is in the grasp of Lilith all of that is contained in this game of who's Lila the game which contains imprints of William which contain imprints of Lila which contain imprints of Lilith all occupies the mind of the prince the ultimate source of food and attention the very thing that keeps this universe alive but here's the thing when the game is turned off Lilith lla William detective you Michael Tanya all cease but who's Lila doesn't the mystery of who Lila stays with us after the computer is turned off after we leave get our breakfast do whatever the heck who lla stays with us but there is an extra layer to this diabolical parasitic vampiric relationship you see a part of whose Lila rests within us and there may be a chance that a part of us rests within the mystery of who's Lila but that won't be understood until the very end of this video video this is just a model an organization of all the information we've been picking up throughout the game really in the end we've known this from the beginning we just didn't have the language to put it together so keep this model in mind we have the house of Lila the house of who Lila but the why and the and just so many other different things just you wait because this is this is some interesting stuff this conclusion this model is the most upto-date thing on my outline I have some more things that I will be mentioning regarding lla after this point because in the end this is just a model we still have things to appraise when it comes to Lila and the Mystery of who's Lila but consider this really the big Flagship of my theory towards the end so don't worry we will eventually erase this board and it will be satisfying but not just yet so with all that behind us let's punch in the code first gold into the locked document it's the remainder of the document You' read before emergency handling in an unlikely case of L going out of control it's it's useless trying to regain control kill her yes you read correctly my dear William that m is that supposed to be mom m m I don't know I'm tempted to say that it is because it's the Bold text lla needs to be no more the one way to stop her existence is by is by getting rid of all of her hosts anybody who has ever come into contact with her is a potential host after all if nobody knows about her she can feed off their energy but without human hosts she can't do anything she is a construct of thought unable to live independently of people's knowledge of her remember that will is William hearing the voice of his mother implying that he needs to kill yla or kill all vessels that hold lla based on the timeline of this this is all happening before he met Tanya so this advice that he's been given that the only way to stop lla is possibly what caused will to murder Tanya when ultimately ends up meeting her perhaps this is the empress and the empress is Lilith then in a twisted and devouring manner she's using the um of Lila and perhaps the shadow cast by William's mother to manipulate will into killing Tanya giving her more power in the form of human sacrifice it's kind of confusing a lot of moving Parts in the pantheon of this world before leaving if we try and sit in the chair that would take us to the realm of the Emperor or the realm we meet the emperor William says I shouldn't go back there again keep this in mind howdy I'm special Asian Arnold Hill William Clark correct please come with us would you we get stopped by an Arnold Hill a special agent perhaps with the FBI and thus ends the hero Fant ending putting aside the Relentless info dumping we just underwent the herant ending is kind of interesting in that it is the iCal resolution of Will's investigation of the fire you see the emperor ending the reverse Emperor ending starts off as a flashback but once the player diverts from that flashback it becomes sort of a current investigation remember in the emperor ending the actual Emperor himself refers to us the player as this new vessel we aren't playing as William in that case however in the herant ending from start to finish we are seeing the flashback of William what's interesting too is that in the Reversed Emperor ending one of the key things you have to do to actually achieve it is to sit in that chair and meditate on the yantra whereas in the herant ending right after you talk to Father Lawrence you stay playing as William like or I should say seeing the events pan out as William because if you try to interact with the chair William refuses he doesn't want to go back to that Forest so William does not want to sit down and do the yantra but we as the player when we're playing in the emperor ending we want to do that we want to explore perhaps William wants to leave all this behind him or he's scared of facing the emperor in that Twisted Forest but us the player we're like a detective we're not afraid of any of that stuff we just want answers full disclosure this script and outline has undergone so many revisions with each time I play the game I discover something new certain things are recontextualized so this might be the first or 15th time I'm mentioning this but there is a reason why in Williams flashbacks we see Williams name in the dialogue box but in all other endings and paths with the exception of times that lla is speaking actually no there's a reason why in all of the flashback endings we see Williams name in the dialogue box but in all the other endings that take place on that current day or today is the day the dialogue box remains empty I believe this is because we are not playing as will obviously but we're not also we're not playing as Lila disguised as will either we are playing as a husk of will I'm going to go a step further in my theory and say that this is the will that's a result of the fool ending we are playing as the fool Will the true will the will that has his name in the dialogue boxes the Hang to man will exists purely in these memories in these Recollections of events that take place before that today is the day but perhaps he's also buried somewhere deep within this game we will discover that as we dig more deeper into this game before moving on to our discussion with Detective VI because we got some more beefiness to go over let's go over the tarot symbology this one's kind of tough I don't know if it's because of just the sheer fatigue that I'm experiencing with this particular ending but I am having trouble deciphering a an overlap between the ending and the tarot we have William talking to Father Lawrence a Priestly fatherly figure William becomes privy to the process and instruction of the creation of yila and also the destruction of Lila and so it makes sense that this is the herant ending not only because we're talking to a Priestly figure father Lawrence but we're also being instructed by this priest as to how to make right the things that were wronged so a hierophant will us come a long way to learn the truth behind the fortunity didn't he yeah right a lot of hoop jumping just to learn what I could have already told him myself by the way you that fire was your men's job wasn't it yes it was us obviously Lawrence was aware of the FBI knowing about the UAM moreover we have been utilizing them proactively for the last 10 or 15 years we were a bit late with the fire though now Lawrence is in a place where there is no time at all so it was you lot who stole all my food it's revealed that it was the FBI that started the fire well that would explain the special agent snooping around after the fact bumping into will because they were late with the fire Lawrence escaped into a realm where time doesn't exist here's something that's key all this time detective U was aware of the FBI's meddling they're starting the fire we just learned this it's interesting how Lyla is mad that the FBI destroyed all her food she's likely not only referring to the animals but also the humans he called Lawrence when I was asleep I know what did they talk about did he read what was in the secret file come on detective you know I'm curious what was written here I'm not sure if you are playing with me here lla you you are a haze composed of many human Minds intersecting a construct of thoughts of many hosts wait how do you as long as there are humans who know about you as long as you have hosts you can't be killed so are you going to just there there doesn't seem to be a different way to do it I I'm so sorry I detective U is baited into drawing his firearm we have two choices shoot or close the game with alt f4 this is what happens when you shoot will so we're going to go ahead load use office after shooting will oh oh my God I'm so sorry will it's never that simple is it detective you you tricked me Lyla your sorrow is exquisite detective I haven't had such a feast in a while if I knew just how rich your pain was I'd never even bother to inhabit William you are horrible yla well that's a harsh thing to say at least I'm not the one to kill an innocent boy detective you need to leave I I need a moment we reload the game and we get our confirmation that the body before us was Will's body this entire time just being being steered by lla maybe the body we were playing as in the main game was an avatar a different thing something manufactured for a purpose for those Twin Peaks fans and Williams true body was absconded into 's office this entire time regardless detective U kills Will's body and so the combination of this human sacrifice and detective 's sorrow is enough to allow Lyla to fully manifest without the need of a fleshy vessel at this point Will's portrait on the right in detective 's discussions is replaced by laya's Avatar and I don't think you can reverse this Ending by simply uninstalling and reinstalling the game uh kind of like with undertale's um s save data you know if you do the bad ending like I mean the really bad ending it remembers that you have to really dig into the the computer's guts and and and swap some files around to kind of re undo the damage of course we are too clever for these tricks remember Lyla even says in the death tarot discussion that if you shoot her with a gun she won't die remember that hint not bad detective you are much smarter than you look no nourishment for me today I guess well I'm sorry but you won't trick me that easily Lyla let's proceed with our conversation warning missing header at you end part two H so the hero Fant card that was our last C to discuss we have completed and discussed all the endings with Detective U and so we enter the conclusion of this game automatically we get a debug message informing us that there is a file or header missing and thanks to data miners this information is easy to access with some internet searching that being said I want to point out that this next segment plays right after you discuss the last ending that means any ending we happen to end on the hero Fant ending discussion with Detective U but this could easily happen any after any other ending discussion so long as it's the last one you discuss notice how the missing segment is labeled you end part two I wonder if that means that all of these endings are possible candidates for part one but I believe there is one ending tarot discussion that's most appropriately placed before this segment the sun tarot discussion let's revisit that for a clean sequence pretending that we save that one for last what was that all about machine of pain me you love it when it's all about you don't you what I I mean I don't care we can talk about something else if you'd like what did she mean when she said that my curiosity keeps you alive you are so close to finding out the truth do you realize that detective just answer my question lla why are you saying that it's up to me come come on detective you're almost there I don't I I can't yet please can't you just tell me and so the missing dialogue continues my nature is exactly this I'm all this I'm not a tulpa not the mother of a um not even Lilith or an archetype and yet I am all those things I'm the mystery of not knowing who Lila is as long as the one playing this game doesn't understand understand what I am I will remain alive in their mind I am the mystery itself I was designed in a way that makes me just about explainable but at the end of the day I'm no more than a simple question who is Lyla and so the conversation picks up [Music] here what if it's easier to understand that way an identity is like a piece of semi-transparent film it lies in Array of light the light thinks it's that piece of film doesn't the light itself want to know what it is I know I want to know what light is neither the film nor the light want things it's just written on the film I want to know what light is I don't get it it's like when reading a book on their own the characters are just a bunch of symbols but your attention makes them kind of a lot it's as if they borrow your mind as a simulation space to play their Consciousness it's like a wind power walking machine your attention makes it move and act like a living thing but when it's still it loses its meaning wait so you on the other hand you are composed by an intersection of many rays of attention aren't you very good yes but even if I were to get rid of all of them you wouldn't disappear why well I guess I can just straight up tell you [Music] no no [ __ ] no sometimes a piece of film is designed in such a way that when catching the light of attention once it tries to do every little thing to keep it to itself it creates mazes and unbelievable fractals of mystery you see the beauty of it is its structure is not random there's always an underlying logic and a single correct interpretation of its narrative but is it even obtainable at this point I don't know this piece is always designed to be just about explainable but small contradictions and unspoken details usually prevent the full picture from being fully formed so what was it all to yes yes so this must be the most vile and last trick of them all this is a subconsciously overwhelming ending it's very easy to overlook and just want to move past things that lla is mentioning a few concepts are brought up in this short scene that are important so let's piece them apart translating laya's words into something easier to swallow this is an explanation of the missing header dialogue So based on this missing dialogue from this you end to header Lyla describes herself as the mystery of not knowing who Lyla is she says I am all these things throughout this mystery all of the bits of data that have pointed to her being a tulpa an experiment a metaphor for abuse a part of will psyche the daughter of Lilith the mother of a um or just simply put an yian archetype all of these bits of data are somehow true valid but she is not any one of these things going by the themes of memes and Consciousness that we've gone through throughout this ENT higher mystery we can find a through line that goes through all of these various bits of data that unite together tulpas um Lilith archetypes these are all mimetic in nature all having to do with the Mind feeding on the Mind manipulating the mind and in and in the realm and in the realm of who Lila these are basically Cognito hazards meme hazards in the truest form like bodily Hazard now in the same way that like loss and the game is a mem Hazard To Us Lilith isn't a hazard in our world but in the universe of who Lila Tanya's affinity for Lilith might have been the very thing that sealed her fate putting her on Lilith's menu and thus the mere question itself is such a powerful Hazard that it even affects us the prince lla mocks us for being a machine of pain that that our lives are filled with such suffering because we obsess over this very question and while and while because of the mtic nature of who's Lila that same nature that shared with loss. JPEG and the game you cannot defeat her we can at least cease her we have to combine two aspects resilience and serenity resilience through the struggles of piecing together all these various aspects that have to fit they just have to fit but being Serene and knowing that if we don't solve the mystery today if you don't solve it tomorrow or ever we could be at peace knowing that we had fun doing it and Lyla cannot take that away from us after this video is uploaded after you finish playing who's Lyla okay fine lla is in your brain you can't get her out now okay big freaking deal over time you'll forget about the game and once in a while you will see a lily or the color lilac and you'll be reminded of the game name who's Lyla big [ __ ] she's not ceased anymore she's back in my brain again simply look back at this time with fondness the time when you were piecing together the Mysteries how naive you were when you first opened up the game your preconceptions and presuppositions of how the story would go being absolutely shattered and stumbling upon the vast mystery that a a phenomenal game developer like garage Heathen has created for us yes who Lila is a part of our mind now but we're not trapped in there with her she's trapped in there with us after the missing header lla begins to talk about identity identity is like a piece of film or as she also previously stated to will a colored bit of glass the light passes through it and the light sees the image and thinks itself to be the film when it's just light think of the self in yung's model notice that the self underlies all these parts of the psyche this is why some describe the self as who you are when all other parts of your psyche are Stripped Away the self exists and yet can only be defined by what it's not much like the light the perceiver in a way the self is the light passing through all these workings both conscious and unconscious and Escape out to the outer world through the Persona and so it's easy for the self to think it's the Persona it looks into the mirror and sees the persona nothing underneath but it isn't it's just the self refracted and filtered through the film or colored glass that is the rest of the psyche again I'm not a psychologist I'm operating within this game's setting and symbolic framework if I happen to get something right that works in our world that's just a coincidence lla then pivots into the idea of memes being sustained by Consciousness look at these three strings of characters you might classify string one as just nonsensical characters string two as randomly placed characters and string three to be a coherent sentence but at their cores they are equally nonsensical characters it's just the way our brains work perhaps according to Ripkin because of the of the prince and how our language works we are able to identify a pattern in this random nonsensical string of letters because of your Consciousness the plane of your Consciousness you have given this character the he his eyes the tears that weld in his eyes that belong to him you've given it a place in the plane of your existence you've given this man life these nonsensical scribblings equally nonsensical to number one and number two reside in your mind memes or um act in this similar way our Consciousness sustains their life and they never die they only cease when we stop thinking about them only to be reawakened or keep moving again once we think about them again feeding them or giving them that plane of our Consciousness once again so this is what lla means when she says it's like a wind-powered walking machine when the wind stops the machine doesn't die it doesn't break it simply ceases until the next gust of wind until the next moment of Consciousness detective you asks if she's built on the many rays of Consciousness that give her attention all of you watching this video and everybody playing this game why is it that getting rid of of all these sources of attention won't cause lla to disappear what this means is if we were to delete the game theoretically from every single computer from the internet anything you just bam done it's gone it's impossible the garage Heath flash drive destroyed he's implying that still She Wouldn't Die lla says she can now straight up tell him and whisper something into his ear and he's deeply distressed what she says after seems to be a continuation of what she whispered to him saying that sometimes this film meme game mystery is designed so that after gaining the attention of a perceiver or catching the light of their attention even once it tries to do everything to keep the light the attention to itself burrowing itself in mazes and unbelievable fractals of mystery in other words like a meme like a Cognito Hazard the moment it's absorbed into your mind there's no leaving even if we delete every single lost. jpeg um picture on the internet we see the lines we're reminded of it that's all it takes and so Laya who lla is Works in a very similar way lla says that the structure to all of this is not random that there is an underlying logic a correct interpretation detective you asks if the correct interpretation is attainable and even Lila says I don't know she could be being honest or saying that to keep the mystery alive not sure detective U asks was this all to and lla cuts him off saying yes so that's two secrets were robbed of why lla doesn't disappear even when all the sources of attention are removed is whispered and the purpose of all of this the entire mystery is interrupted by lla the game ends with Detective you saying this must be the most vile trick of them all [Music] floppy viewer listen I'm just going to come out and ask him where is William you shouldn't be here I've been racking my head about this and you're the only possible lead I have now you're asking the right questions to psyche um I uploaded a test of this and apparently YouTube accounts for cover songs and so even parody I guess I have you have to share the uh the uh revenue and while I'm more than happy to share any sort of Revenue that's directed to my my little cover uh I'm not going to share the revenue for this entire video because of this thre minute uh segment so um just pretend you just listened to the most cringiest dumbest thing ever and uh yeah uh we'll just uh just pretend that the music ends now [Music] David Lynch is known for making highly interpretive art it can range from abstract and sanguine to otherworldly and non- ukian or just simple and easy to follow but always highly interpretive so there's this lynchian approach to appreciating highly interpretive art this idea that all people are investigators detectives puzzle solvers and that all interpretations are valid so the very first layer the surface layer of this approach it's all interpretations are valid but the next layer down is there exists a correct interpretation people typically get into their heads that because all interpretations are valid there's no point in talking about any of it but there is a mystery to solve a puzzle to solve so there is a correct interpretation this is where most people stop but in this game I've discovered the final layer the final layer is realizing that the correct interpretation the true source of intention and inspiration is so elusive that not even the original author or writer or artist is even truly aware of it that is because the truest intention the truest interpretation comes not from the artist's Consciousness but from the Collective unconsciousness as Lila said the beauty of it is its structure is not random there is always an underlying logic that underlying logic is or comes from the collective unconscious and so we must find peace in knowing that although we may not be truly conscious of the answer at least we are unconscious of it before I came up with this model I already had a conclusion a sort of basic understanding of life already written down so let me just go ahead and show it to you it might seem redundant now that I've given you my final model of sort of the nature of lla and who's Lila but still let's discuss one final time in the most basic way what Lila is who's Lila is a mimic being that requires the Consciousness and attention of the prince in order to stay alive one of the ways she achieves this is by confusing us giving us bits of data that contradict each other or seemingly contradict each other other making this mystery so sprawling that it somehow even made its way onto the internet that the prince uses in the form of the words of rekin website and the steam page codes and stuff like that Lila is not the mystery it's a mystery one of many Mysteries of the grand mystery that is who Lila who lla who's lla If This Were a standard video essay this is where tonally the the video would end closure must be followed with a closing but we don't do typical video essays here we're not rigid that's why we're called flaw peacock because we are proud of the flaws like a peacock is proud of its feathers what else did you think it meant there are two more small games made by garage Heathen that we are going to explore and two secret areas in the game of who's Lila that we're going to explore for those of you who played the game we're going to be exploring the corrupt save area and and the shaser bedroom but first let's tie a nice bow around the various motifs and the grand sort of timeline of this story and then I'll go over the all the things that I missed things that people who are far more talented than I in the realm of coding trivia and whatnot figured out on their own and finally finish off with what I believe to be the fate of William the true nature of detective you and my final Theory as to to why and what and how this game who's Lyla this you am uh exists and let's move on so let's first clean up the peripheral motifs and the character tree first of all I want to apologize from the beginning of this whiteboard this specific whiteboard I already had stuff charted out and I hope it didn't lead to any sort of confusion or spoiling of anything I kept it vague enough but I kept the arrows and stuff like that mainly this is to preserve my sanity let's start off with the auditory motifs I think it's safe to say that the owl is a motif for Lilith or lla we hear and see the owl when Tanya and William are dancing and their faces are very close to one another it gives William a chance to analyze her face see and study her face and all of a sudden he's reminded of lla and she emerges mimetically so it's it's only fitting and after all also the owl is a nocturnal creature and Lilith is seen as a nocturnal queen of sorts the muffled screaming one instance we hear the muffled screaming Motif would be when we're attacking Martha William is being forced to do something he doesn't truly want to do he doesn't want to kill uh Martha and after he's finished strangling her her face transforms into a dog we're going to get into that the other time we hear the muffled screaming is when Lyla is speaking to the boiler lady the lady inside the boiler I'm going to I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this muffled screaming is some sort of symbol for the abuse that William's mother put him through as we dig into this story we will see how these sort of bad faith actors in William's life manipulate him and mess his head up to the point where he's doing things he wouldn't otherwise want to do that being said though if the lady in the boiler is Lilith and Lilith is the mother of Lila in a way or perhaps the inhabit of Lila perhaps this screaming is a sort of signifier of human sacrifice we see Martha being killed she's sort of this human sacrifice for Lilith and we see stnv one of the members of the fraternity getting sucked up and eaten by the uh the empress so perhaps the muffle screaming is also a signification for Human Sacrifice I'm not sure the dead dog I think is my favorite Motif because I think is emblematic of William's empathy that thing that we're told from the very beginning William doesn't have in a peripheral way it also signifies the abuse and manipulation Lila and the cult put William through sacrificing animals killing dogs we see this reminder of this horrible thing William has done to Martha when her face transforms into that of a dog we also see the daada dog a dog with closed eyes which is you know I mean you could say its eyes are closed because it's dead I wonder how that plays a role in all of this but I think for the most part I think the dead dog is Williams constantly prayed upon empathy I don't want to give William too much levity in the end a perfectly valid interpretation of the story is that William is still doing these horrible things on his own accord but my interpretation of the story would be one where William has been abonded from his body and all these murders and crappy things happening are mations from bad faith acting news sphere dwellers and my favorite of the auditory motifs the strange film Real noise I've looked online to see if I could find some other noise that is very similar to this film reel noises I couldn't find I even looked for uh I even I think I even found a a sound of a film reel being expended I didn't exactly sound like it sounds of electricity sounds of a rotary phone nothing and and yet rotary phone film reel we have this cyclical sort of symbology there so I think the strange film Real noise signifies the completion of a cycle the revolution of a cycle the turn of a wheel the completion of a playthrough I have a list right over here we hear it at the end of the Reversed Emperor ending the Reversed Empress ending right when stnv appears behind us at the catwalk in the Reversed Empress ending when will hangs up with Father Lawrence in the hero ending we even hear it during the William theme the Martyr theme in the corrupted save did we get to that part yet well I don't know if we even got to that part yet sorry we hear it in many places but one strange variant of the sound we hear at the end of the final dialogue between detective you and Lila it sounds like the ending like the full completion like it just sounds different it sounds like whatever this rotation is happening it's stopped moving on we have the Bold text which I think is a motif or a symbol for uh something parental or paternal we see links between the mother and the empress if I'm not mistaken both of them use the phrase naughty girl or dirty girl both are devouring mothers both of these devouring mothers operate similarly in that Lilith devours through Lila and William's mother devours through him obviously she's dead at that point point but the trauma and effect that she's had on him the imprint she's made on his shadow operate from within him an inic way she's forever alive through his shadow moving on to the moving on to the speaking of mothers we can move on to Father figures although William doesn't have a father saying that he he ditched out on the family when he was very young father Lawrence is a sort of Father Figure and the emperor I guess is a father to lla father to this whole universe the developer the game creator the Creator and so it's only fitting that father Lawrence and the emperor have Mirror Image endings perhaps the emperor is a sort of Godlike figure and father Lawrence the herant a clergy is perhaps a priest dedicated to the patronage of this Emperor this snake God his associates Ripkin and this character Ivan who will meet in Shier who is an associate of Ripkin all have links to this snake eyed God the emperor and of course we have the many Wills we have will The Stranger will the the the F the sort of blank slate fool that the player can manipulate his face and we have this strange link between us the player and detective you we still have yet to fully explore it's been staring Us in the face all this time but by the end of this video I think I will have a very good and solid Theory that clears up the you player connection unblurs the line between Lyla Lilith and the game itself who's lla but before we do that let's clean up a little bit further and go over the timeline the earliest event that we're aware of would probably be the death of William's mother but we don't have an exact date for that as far as I'm aware but we do have a date the earliest date would be April 21st the death of Malcolm remember this is Little Malcolm Graves the little brother of big Michael Graves who died of strangulation at the hands of The Da dog cult June 11th is when William joins the fraternity of Lawrence throughout his tutelage in July 13th he notes that they're collecting animals the purpose of which he doesn't know just yet July 14th he notes in his diary that he is being introduced to the process of enforcing lla that she has taken to him very well compared to his other compatriots in this fraternity September 12th is around the time starts to question this tulpa narrative how can yla be a tulpa if she's appearing to every single one of us when it TPA supposed to be a very personal thing September 15th is when yla starts to try egoe mind effing William she almost succeeds but if anything it scares him even further he writes in his diary lla when you read this don't ever do that to me again November 12th is when the fire takes place and remember this fire was started by the f bi evidently an attempt to try and get rid of this manufactured um made by The Cult of Lawrence now Williams stays home for this fire perhaps this could be the influence of lla perhaps she knew that this fire was going to take place and she wanted to hold on to that last person who knew of her so that any knowledge of her wouldn't get completely vanquished or it could have been just a horrible coincidence well not horrible because then that means will would have died if he was at the fire but you know a it could just be a coincidence that will stayed in he did say what migraine anyways a day after the fire we have the Calamity these are the events of the tower what's interesting is that when recalling the Calamity in the interrogation we're recalling it based on scars we had and I can't help but wonder if at some point in the Calamity lla harmed William or I guess tried getting William to harm himself he does mention something about hurting animals obviously animals would bite back and fight back but that's one mystery I'm not entirely sure of what were these scars from if not from you know since they're not from the fire and from the Calamity anyways on November 13th William successfully outsmarts lla decoupling himself from her he throws her real into the dark dark recesses of his psyche but take note of the fact that he cannot remove her from his mind he can only repress her bury her deep deep deep in the psyche at this point after having forgotten about lla he goes and investigates the fire on November 16th the events of this would have been the hero Fant ending not the emperor ending he talks to Father Lawrence on this burnt phone and father Lawrence is communicating to him from this realm Beyond father Lawrence gives William the password to the main computer on this computer we eventually find a PDF that gives gives us instruction on how to kill yla however this could be the emperor mimicking father Lawrence trying to get William to either destroy Lila or reawaken lla for his own ulterior motives remember Lawrence and the emperor both kind of emerge into this view from this blackness in a very similar way and they are both first and only featured in their sort of sister endings the hierophant and the emperor here's what's interesting meeting Tanya is what causes Lila to reemerge but why isn't it that reading the PDF on how to destroy lla on the computer didn't cause lla to reemerge but regardless lla does fully reemerge when William finally meets Tanya on November 20th at Matt's party in his diary he writes something around the lines of she had her face I thought I had forgotten about her reading lyla's name in the PDF seeing a person who has the same likeness to Lyla that wasn't enough for Lila to fully reemerge I didn't put this here I sort of ran out of space and forgot but that day that William and Tanya have their Affair Tanya says who is lla fully Awakening lla and lla becomes sort of the sole controller of William's body remember William is freaking out like aren't you Lyla but aren't you lla Tanya who's lla boom some point after that with the help of the stranger which lla must have met somewhere deep in William psyche both Laya and the stranger murder Tanya a week later we see in the diary written today is the day today is the day we see the symbol of Lilith and since this happened after the murder of Tanya that means William is out of the picture this is being written by Lyla today is the day with the symbol of Lilith the day that the prince plays the game plays who lla is heavily anticipated by lla I I am excited to tell you guys my theory but anyways let's move on this is the full picture but we we're missing some small details we'll get into that when we analyze William and really when we fully wrap up this entire mystery now let's explore garage heathen's shast keep in mind rkin the colleague of Father Lawrence the te mushrooms and father Lawrence's methodology in his Cult of Lila chasa is a game that takes place in April I'm assuming the same year as the events of who's Lila it's about a man named Ivonne writing his Memoir the entire game consists of the player typing on their keyboard to simulate Ivonne writing his Memoir there's a radio next to us that can play a Russian podcast but sadly I haven't figured out how to translate it there are kids playing outside and man I got to tell you there there's memories in those sounds simpler times Ivonne talks about how after losing his marriage children job and apartment he moved in with his mom he would start his days off drinking vodka in front of his building and soon others would join one of these friends in this mly crew was Ripkin a Meek bald man who would transform into a charmer with grand ideas when Under the Influence this is the same Ripkin that associated with Father Lawrence one day while while rkin was silently watching two other friends being loud and bombastic Ivonne drunk himself into a stuper slumping into a dream his dream was of him in a forest surrounded by white sycamore trees the scape was adorned by a noise of crackling a somber inhuman tune emitted from these trees he kept walking until he reached the edge of this Dreamscape taking a step forward he falls and above he can see the world revealing itself as he descended above him was a creature in an insect-like pose it looked like a monkey with snake eyes and had a mushroom for a head the creature looked down at him and smiled with yellow teeth through Blue Lips it's pretty obvious that Ivon has stumbled upon this Forest realm but is it the same Forest realm that we stumble upon in whose Lia you see I posited that lla was sort of the ruler of the forest Realm in who Lila because the entrance to the forest was flanked by the pillars of Boaz and jashen these pillars are seen in the high priestess Tero and Laya is the high priestess however the ruler of this Forest realm in Ivan's Consciousness I'm jumping the gun there by calling it his Consciousness is this mushroom headed Emperor figure that same figure that we see in the reverse Emperor ending he wakes up from this dream in rin's bedroom based on the description he gives the game Shier takes place in that very room the room we are typing our Memoir in is rin's room he walks out of this room and stumbles upon the a statuette of a small figure with a snake-shaped penis and mushroom head sitting in the corner of the library SL living room of Reep ke's flat so judging from this information it seems that since then the statuette has been moved from this living room into the bedroom that we're currently sitting in we will come to find out that this statuette is a representative of the same thing that the emperor is essentially representative of however in the shasa game itself the statuette is quite literally the logo the sort of mascot of garage Heathen we're getting an exact one to1 representation at this point again we're playing with the idea that these characters these beings are created in this world the god of that creation is the game developer garage Heathen so it's only fitting that the icon of which he then finds rkin frying eggs in his kitchen and uses his bathroom ruminating on the high strangeness of the situation for the next year Ivon got closer to Ripkin finding out that they had a lot in common one day rkin is giving Ivon a detailed tour of his library but one author sticks out to him Marcel grial the Anthropologist who did a lot of ground baking research on the Doan tribes the Doan tribe was the the same tribe whose Traditions were copied and modified in rin's Breakdown on how to create a new sphere dweller I'm referring to that classified PDF in the herent ending I won't get into too much specifics but the Doon tribe is real in our world and actually is a beautiful example of how an advanced civilization and a tribalistic in Civilization are not mutually exclusive qualities if if you're someone who likes the mystical aspect of human history and you haven't heard of the doon tribe I definitely would look into them however in the garage Heathen Cinematic Universe the Doon tribe had achieved their Advanced knowledge through the use of teth mushrooms these mushrooms don't exist in our world as far as I'm aware among its Celestial properties it was also believed to be the physical manifestation of the nameless God it turns out Ripkin had a couple of these mushrooms stowed away in a drawer so naturally Ivon and Ripkin tripped balls that day ever since that day Ivon turned his life around stopped drinking got a new job spending his money on taking care of his mother whatever money he had left over he used in experiments he conducted with Ripkin at some point Ripkin had informed Ivon on how to contact this nameless God and that the strange figurine in his house was an icon of that nameless God not that we needed the confirmation but now we have it in writing that this nameless God is this statuette and is also that being inside this dream Consciousness World actually unconsciousness world all of these motifs this statuette the garage Heathen logo Snake Eyes the nameless God the emperor this representation in Ivan's dream and the representation in the unconscious of will in the Reversed Emperor ending these are all representative of the same thing I'm going to posit garage Heathen but in the realm of whose Lil Shas andachi The God of that realm is what all these are representative of the first phase of these experiments consisted of intense and long meditations where Ivon and rkin would clear their minds of quarrels and mental flatsome Evon described this process like untying the knots of a ribbon the mind being the ribbon eventually after many phases of visualization Ripkin and Ivan visualized and manifested all the various parts of a car in their medic ation almost like they were assembling it in their dreams together once they finished mind you they are in this dream world likely tripping balls rekin entered the driver's seat Ivon the passengers and they went on looking for the forest so they can commune with the nameless God they passed through a land of towers connected by lilac Bridges the scape gesticulated into a grand expanse of fractals and strange geometries this sounds like they're passing through the realm of the tower that that same realm that we go through in the tower ending we've got these towers there's this lilac Bridge Motif in shaser in whose Lila we have lilac Mania the pallet that we can pick up and these fractals that are being described are also seen in the tower ending if we allow Lila to catch up to us we see these fractal like images flash on the screen soon they were in that very forest and met face to face with the nameless God Ripkin went to his knees and Ivon went to do the same however he realized he had no knees no body for that matter so Ivonne is just a floating bit of perspective he's got no body no knees no hands and arms I'm representing him by a floating head but he doesn't even have that he's just a floating bit of perspective does that sound familiar to any of you it's what we were experiencing when we went through the forest realm but to be more meta about it this phenomenon he's experiencing is the same phenomenon we experience when we play firsters video games we're just the sort of floating bit of perspective some games go the extra mile and when you look down you see your body but you have an invisible head or some games have a floating arm and weapon I'm spending too much time talking about this but you get the gist rein's face transformed to look like and I quote the sound of a blue car horn his body twisted and compressed into a spring shape as if it was building up energy to spring up into the air meanwhile the gods gaze gathered around rin's head compressing into an impossibly bright Halo and in one moment a loud snap and rkin disappeared the nature of which rkin sort of gets I don't know obliterated by the nameless God reminds me a lot of how stnv got obliterated by uh um the empress Ivon can't put the conversation he had with the nameless God into words in fact it wasn't even much of a conversation but a passing of awareness much like our encounter in the reverse Emperor ending no words were spoken Ivonne was now aware that everything around him this nameless God this Forest even the absence of things are mere disturbances blemishes on the ribbon that is his mind what this tells me is that everything Ivon experienced when he was in the forest when he was in the tower realm when he was communing with the nameless god with rkin was all happening in his mind rekin was off tripping balls in his own dream Ivon simply borrowed rein's likeness to accompany him in this Trek into the forest realm in a way creating this thought formed doppelganger so is the tower realm in the forest realm this sort of magical realm you can teleport to in the realm of who Lila in the garage he an extended Cinematic Universe not exactly the reason why Ivon and William share similar archetypes in their unconsciousness is because of this yian phenomenon of the collective unconsciousness this would have been the moment that I would have first explained the collective unconsciousness this late into the video so so stupid on my part but in my defense we have been gambling gambling dabbling in so many different Concepts in this video that one happened to fall through the cracks and that's why I needed to make whip together that quick crappy phone video explaining the collective unconsciousness cuz otherwise I would have explained it like already like too late yeah so thank you for your patience this Collective unconsciousness is why Ivon and William are able to have similar if not identical motifs and archetypes show up in their dreams the tarot AR is built on this idea that archetypes are derived from this Collective unconsciousness Ivan's mother is an example of an empress this relationship with his mother and William's relationship with his mother is indicative of this reversed upside down Empress I could go on but oh jeez we're writing a memoir aren't we let me read the rest to you fun fact if you leave the game and load back in at this point the forest theme starts to play behind the door my following dialogue with the nameless God is almost impossible to describe with words it wasn't exactly a dialogue either for it turned out that the nameless God as well as I as well as the forest around and the absence of Fedor stepanich Ripkin in it are no more than mere disturbances on the surface of the ribbon comprising our minds nothing existed but that ribbon so it was only natural that the ribbon itself did not exist either there was but One Wish keeping me from Forever diluting in the absolute knowledge of the world's Essence all I strive for now was to share this incredible Godly blessedness with every one human being in this universe then employing the voice of Fedor stepanovich Ripkin the nameless God told me about the prophecy the prophecy is a combination of words the general semantic sense of which would lead any reader no matter the age sex or nationality to get a complete and instant grasp of the of existence the understanding does not come directly all the prophecy does is activate neural chains in a specific order as a result the path into nothingness built in the reader's subconsciousness any person who read the text would inevitably revert to their original form to put it simply the reader would forever disappear from this world severing and unwinding The Vines of their existence as I came to my senses in the living room I saw saw Fedor stephanovich lying near me unconscious his nose was bleeding my head was killing me but without losing time I went to the room with the computer John lennin was still there looking at me from the poster after swallowing another two of the pale mushrooms I opened word and started typing in the prophecy as you have probably guessed you are reading it right now the nameless God has dictated me the words of the prophecy and I will remember them forever forever when I type the last word my existence will stop as will stop the existence of any person who read it farewell Andrea and Misha farewell Fedor stefanovich where we are going there will be no sadness there will only be oh Jesus Christ there will be no sadness there will only be shast or happiness in Russia mother I highly recommend getting this game it's only a dollar and my brief synopsis does not do it justice the idea I get from this game is that when you read this prophecy you cease to exist and you might think well I just read it and I'm still here fair warning these wh ifs I'm going to pause it is purely to explore the theme of Cognito hazards in garage heathen's work you are fine you're still here the prophecy had no effect on you it's literally just a piece of coding it's a it's a $1 typing simulator you're fine but how exactly do you know that the you who is here is actually here what if you are a copy what if all the memories you are experiencing now are simply imprinted onto you copied and pasted from the you that was obliterated from reading this prophecy the prophecy in shasti is the sort of prototype that garage heathan had been working on this sort of Cognito Hazard likee thought experiment that was prototyped in shasti but mastered in in who Lila something I haven't touched on in a while is the misspellings that we see in who's Lila and based on this beautiful writing in shasti I think it's safe to say that gash Heathen is no grammatical slouch he's more than capable of spelling things correctly but there is one character I associate with misspellings and that is rekin if you remember on the words of rekin web website that whole website is littered I mean littered with grammatical errors and while who Lila isn't absolutely littered with grammatical errors there's just enough to where you can't help but think that there's something intentional to it so my question is is reap kein a sort of bad faith actor someone who is trying to spread these various Cognito hazards into our world I now I'm starting to kind of lose the plot here keep in mind for my final summation my final theory of this whole game and it's purpose the concept of memetic Hazards Cognito hazards perfecting the art of creating Cognito hazards remember that ulita lenina address that we found on the words of rekin website if we punch in that address in the bus stop it will take us to the room in chier rin's bedroom the John Lennon poster unlocks the shast pallet so it seems that we are just walking in just as Ivon has completely disappeared the computer is out of power which is an odd phrase that must mean that the entire room is out of power which makes sense now that I think about it there's a light switch in Shier that doesn't do anything at least that I'm aware of so it's interesting that to think that the power was shut off in the room and Yvonne was just tripping balls so hard that he was just typing into a shut off computer now that I think about it the player can type absolute nonsense and yet the Memoir appears on the screen I can't help a feel that this is a similar experience Ivonne had when tripping on te mushrooms button mashing aimlessly as his masterful prophecy laid out before his eyes before I move on let's talk about garage heathen's your amazing teachi briefly Tachi is a simulated tamagachi toy every time you press play it generates a new teachi girl with a random name that always starts with the letter t you can wash her feed her and compliment her but no outcome is ever positive all endings are gruesome and depressing every ending is punctuated with the Damon giving you a tip as to how to achieve another ending throughout the game she refers to her daddy I'm of the Mind daddy means a Creator a father possibly the same entity that the nameless God and the emperor represent there's also a chance that she's referring to Father Lawrence if you get all the endings you get this cutscene welcome back Matthew or Chris or player as a certain relative of mine likes to refer to you as first of all I'd like to ask you why have you come here again I'm sure you've noticed how with each attempt of yours the girl in a green shirt meets an Ever more gruesome end are you trying to make things better is it is it the natur urge to outplay the game maybe it's a sense of completionism you don't have to answer of course whatever the reason is it's not really who's responsible for my suffering of course you could have just stopped playing but personally I don't blame you for the pain caused you see from the start there hasn't been anyone to cause pain too the word I is used out of convenience it isn't connected to any kind of entity no one is talking talking to you right now so don't worry tooo much your emotions whatever they are are directed literally at nobody in case you've completed the game now or in any case you've completed the game now there's no more content this game has to offer you so congratulations player I hope this was an interesting experience farewell now it's one of the more sober and self-aware endings of the garage Heathen Universe in one of the endings if you starve her don't wash her and don't talk to her you get the Martyr ending it symbol is an I so um are you going to do that from now on wait what's going on is this is this finally it oh hey it's a new day but no one here just like Daddy said oh please I don't want to go yet there's no point in asking for food now is there is it really happening he told me he told me the days would come The Lonesome days I heard them loud and clear this night there can be no mistake here the crackles like electricity or wind in the dry trees blue flashes like flares I could catch glimpses of the Sycamore for forest in the darkness below it still smells like ozone I just need to wait I spoke with him today listen I live in a house full of people I'm just going to say father okay father came and told me he's going to take me back he came at night just like the old days his voice was so kind and sweet he said I won't have to wait for too long I can't believe this journey is coming to an end he's waiting for me he's waiting father I'm coming father oh oh wait wait a second that was a very distinctive noise that wasn't that was like a like a like a crackling shut evidently she ends up back in the forest and if she's a daughter of Lila as is hinted in the classified PDF then she's returned returned home to the forest of the high priestess however the area we see in the Martyr ending of Tachi hints at a different location she ends and that reminds me there's one thing we still need to explore if we go into our save files we can edit them with a notepad deleting a bunch of text will corrupt the save if we go back into the game and try to load the corrupted save this happens it's hard to describe what this area is I guess the best description would be to call this nowhere sort of a back rooms a place that is not supposed to be a place we will soon meet a character that describes this place as where Consciousness deconstructs perhaps the places where one goes when one experiences obliteration or perhaps this is where the reals go when they cease when we don't play the game I'm getting ahead of myself let's explore a bit following the Damon's coordinat gets us to William is that William what happened to his head this character is known by the community as William the track of this area which is a modified version of the forest theme is called William parenthetically martyr wait martyr wait a second will Bingo William martyr hanged man the wheel it all so that means William is Will and he's trapped he's trapped here he's a he's a martyr well that sucks if this character is William then this is a truly sad sight in my opinion this means that all the teachi girls who get the Martyr ending come here they receive the most painful fate and so in a Christlike hanged man martyr fashion they are rewarded with reuniting with the Father the emperor the daddy well that's if this realm was ruled by an upright Emperor but no it's it's ruled by a reversed Emperor they only get further obliteration if this is where they end up again this could just be a non-canonical debug area however remember that machine with the wheel in Wheel of Fortune perhaps the voice of will was not coming from the machine but the wheel much like an image is not coming from a projection but coming from the real we can ask William several questions asking a valid question will cause William to disappear from our game and won't come back unless you dig into your registry files many of the valid questions are hidden in the background of the who's Lila ichio page and you can find them all with their answers on various forums I found them in the steam discussion boards I'll organize these questions based on their answers from easiest to understand to hardest if we ask where am I William answers this this is not supposed to be a place this is the state of which the construction of thought fall down this description reminds me of when Ivon falls out of bounds beneath the forest but I think the safest translation of Williams answer is that this isn't a place or location but a state of ceasing we will explore a bit more and find the various portraits of characters reels that have ceased until they are loaded up again if we ask who's lla William answers lla is the mystery of not knowing who lla is this is the same answer we get from the morse code in the forest and we get a similar gist from The Missing You header we've already gone over this thoroughly but it's to be expected that many come to this point still not having a clue who lla is if we ask what for William answers indeed why even bother if she isn't more than the question itself was all you found in vain I don't think so as the flowers are born to wither so is the imaginary machine that's being built only to completely obliterate itself fleeting Beauty and that's a very good point I researched the ever loving crap out of this so I've personally reached a Zen with it in a way I'm going to miss the days when I first loaded up this game the the preconceptions the assumptions the process from ignorance to false ureas to edification to At Last Serenity it's a process I'll likely never experience again in a game at least not like this and so we should appreciate the fleeting beauty that was this mystery if we ask are you the machine William answers yes the machine and I are one and the same hm the simplistic way to look at this is the machine is will if the machine is one and the same as William then William is will the parenthetical title of William's theme is Martyr as well which perfectly aligns to the hanged man theming of Will's Forest ending I'm sure you can point out other possible identities for William after all this character wouldn't have its enigmatic relationship if it was easy to figure out this is a mystery character a mik the liar a wd gaster in Will's final whiteboard I'll do my best to give my understanding of William however but in the lynchian approach all answers are valid if we ask who are you William answers I am I'm a real that's not used anymore as long as you give me attention I exist can't stop being afraid interesting I am will I am willium his nature is no different from the nature of other reals or characters in this story require iring our attention to exist his real perhaps being a bit of data that isn't used anymore it could be that he was the will used in the demo of this game what floes me is when he says he can't stop being afraid there's something hauntingly sad about that but also confusing perhaps if this is will it's a bit of him that survived the obliteration of identity that doesn't remember much except anxiety or depression remember so much of the emotional choices we make where William Peaks through the most are scared and sad emotions if we ask who is detective you William responds your mind is a detective in ways like I've said if this was your first playthrough and exploration of the game the idea of detective you being you is a novel idea but I'm so over it we'll get into it in the final whiteboards but no detective you is not simply you or your mind oh well I should say the detective you is not you the player but he may very well be a different kind of you we touched on some of these themes in the fool ending discussion with Detective U so keep all this in mind before getting into the more complicated questions let me show you this one if we ask 1899 which is the number at the end of Tanya's Twitter handle and the year that the man above the stair Antigonish poem was written William answers this is not a time but a place rather both both of them inverted don't forget that traveling to the xais 8 and Y AIS ne99 brings us to a poll much like the poll that gave us the morse code the hidden message in this one however is a spectraph message saying you is you this isn't anything we're not already aware of but it's good to be told it pretty explicitly hold on if we look a little to the left of the poll it shows Williams portrait hm the fact that this Persona the fool Will portrait that we can contort as the prince being so close to this reveal of you being you might have some linking on the topic of finding hidden things in this odds scape we can find the portraits of Regina Holmes Michael Martha and officer Hutchin in one group and stnv detective you Tanya and detective fiser in another one you can also come across some trees in this area perhaps this area is somehow connected to the forest what's interesting is that if we pass by the position in the xais that Will's portrait is on we can see our Avatar passing by it so this must be where the game pulls its portraits during conversations if we ask William daddy William answers shame on you the emperor is but a trickster in Disguise his truth serve one purpose to lead you on the wrong path the same goes for all of them this is interesting I had an inkling that the emperor is a more cynical representation of the developer obviously I love garage heathen's work but in the position of the artist there is a sort of Allure to making yourself a bad guy in your own work an evil character of a world trapped in code or pages of a book The Emperor creates a compelling enough mystery so that he ropes in as many princes as possible feeding the entity of who Lila and enriching the career of the emperor it's a genius mix of magic and Game Theory perhaps we shouldn't believe what we are told but what we are shown this is why when the game Flatout tells you things like you is you or lla is the mystery of not knowing who Lyla is our answer should be yes but I'm sure there's more to it a lie is easy to debunk but a shallow truth however can cause us to linger indefinitely in ignorance especially when it's hidden behind a puzzle that's easy enough to solve but hard enough to come across to give the illusion of the player discovering something they shouldn't have and maybe that's a good thing maybe everybody taking the given answers at face value leads to closure for most but not me also I wonder if the same goes for all of them is referring to the Emperors of other games like the daddy in Tachi the nameless God in shasti or that monkey shroom in the upcoming dystopian debugger if we ask who is the stranger William and answers you sir should un mask indeed indeed it's time we have all laid aside disguise but you I wear no mask no mask no mask this is the prologue scene from The Mask the short story in the book King and yellow by Robert Chambers who's considered by some to be the grandfather of lovecraftian horror one of the centerpiece Inspirations for the problematic kitty cat enthusiasts we all know and love this video is already jam-packed and like I said in the beginning of the video I have the reading habit of a peanut I'm sure there are some very juicy things in the king and yellow but I'm just I'm just tired at this point the prologue scene plays out like a short horror story three people wear disguises two of them take off their masks and the third a stranger doesn't because he wears no mask perhaps William is telling us that the stranger in whose Lila wears no mask perhaps meaning this is not William with something added like makeup or done up hair but something removed a mask a Persona The Stranger is William without a mask simply put the shadow of William's psyche the part of him that William has no wish to become and yet exists deep in his unconscience now the shadow concept isn't saying that your darkest impulses are who you truly are the shadow is just a part of you that you didn't account for your blind spot and thus you never put the time in to amend or mask that part of your psyche so in simplistic terms the Shadow or stranger of will wears no mask where is no mask of will there are some other interesting parallels between the mask short story and whose Lila and whose L of the projector is taking in the light rather than emitting it and in The Mask there's this golden ray of light that behaves similarly both tussle with technology leading to upheavals in artistic mediums perhaps I'll save the king and yellow series for another video if we ask where is the body William answers his body is beneath his hands are gripping the underbelly of the forest maybe he's talking about Ivon or maybe the body of William but this answer is truly mysterious I can't help but feel that the scene of Ivonne falling off the edge of the forest and seeing the nameless God is somehow connected to this would that mean that the Ivon that fell stayed there and that the Ivon that woke up was a different Ivon this one has me stumped and sadly if I wanted to take the literalistic approach to this maybe modifying the unity engine to allow me to freely noclip through the forest or corrupted floor I wouldn't know how to do it but luckily other people do before we get into the things I missed relying on the help of those online in the forums and leg work that they have done on their own let's finally clean up my final whiteboard boards for William and detective u in order to appraise William as a character I'm going to need more room so I'm going to go ahead and erase all this stuff we will be appraising Williams psyche using the same model of the jungian sort of that we used in uh sort of appraising the I guess the the psyche motifs in this game so we'll be giving a sort of our sort of Layman's evaluation of Williams psyche but will also go over kind of a brief not a full-blown timeline but a sequence of events that is my best attempt at explaining how William would have gotten to the William fate I want to remind everybody I'm not a psychologist I never went to school and became a Psychology major I am simply using my Layman's understanding of the model the psyche model of Jung which not everybody agrees on by the way based on information I was able to pick up from the internet the APA was it the APA yes the APA and various YouTube video essays regarding the subject of the psyche according to Yung do not use what I discuss here as a means of diagnosing yourself however by all means if it makes you want to get dig into the subject even further I mean that's good unlike our previous use of the jungian model this time we will be doing a more legit appraisal of William psyche one thing I forgot to mention was these symbols c and a meaning complexes and archetypes a complex is a group of behaviors that purely exists in the personal unconscious for example somebody whose unconscious was formed throughout their life by being made to feel small or insignificant May develop a Napoleon complex as some people like to refer to it as archetypes are patterns that exist in the collective unconsciousness in a way you could argue that the Shadow and the Soul image and Mana personality are all archetypes they're just very very ubiquitous archetypes or in other words very common archetypes that are found in most people after a lot of scouring I am tempted to appraise Williams complex as a martyr complex we see this martyr complex emerge a lot in the interrogation scene but I can't really recall anywhere else so I'm probably just grasping for straws however one complex I'm fairly certain on is that William is a victim of his mother's jasta complex which is the opposite of the edible complex we glossed over the kind of trauma and abuse William likely went over so I'm not going to Define what the Jocasta complex is out of respect for people who might have sensitivities regarding the subject as I scoured the internet I discovered a handful of archetypes that emerge typically in those who suffer from childhood trauma and I believe the one that applies the most to William is the aimless Wanderer archetype he doesn't go to school his life seems to be off the rails and not in a crazy sort of chaotic way but more in an aimless transient way like a piece of like a piece of cloth in the wind all it takes is some sort of Highly influential Force like a cult or an abusive mother to catch it and direct him in whatever way he wants they want him to be directed from a literary point of view I think interpretation is sound but obviously from a psychological point of view I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things the Persona being the external face that we show the outer world is very interesting in William's case you see he has trouble showing emotions making strange faces there must be some sort of disconnect the feelings that he is feeling the empathy that he is feeling traveling up to his face and something disconnects something doesn't add up and he makes these strange faces I'm tempted to I'm tempted to wonder if William is struggling from some sort of emotional neuroticism but the only reason I even mention that is because then it ties very well into the concept of the ego being very weak again based on my scouring of the internet I found that there is a high correlation between weak Egos and emotional neuroticism and imbalance again purely in this jungian framework if we consider Lila as an extension of Williams psyche then I think we do kind of have a home run with the emotional neuroticism we have William who presents as depressed sad anxious and then we have Lyla who presents as sadistic angry morose full there's this imbalance in emotional control that's going on and like I said one possible reason for this emotional imbalance could be his very weak ego now mind you I'm not saying fragile ego I'm saying weak ego when we refer to someone having a fragile ego we typically mean they have a big ego that's very easy to pop and you know hurt whereas a weak ego is a very small ego almost non-existent calcified if you will he has a very low standard for his quality of life he kind of lives in squalor he doesn't seek education a higher calling and we see some interesting mirroring in time I think it's safe to say that his very weak ego comes from the abuse he suffered through as a child not believing he deserves better in life now moving on to the shadow I have been excited to talk to you about the Shadow or in other words The Stranger in the yian school of thought the shadow is typically depicted as a samex reflection of the person whose psyche we're talking about think of a think of a version of yourself in your dreams constantly rebuking you pointing out your inconsistencies and insecurities but what's interesting in William's case is his shadow is not same seex his is androgynous it's an androgynous archetype I believe this is because his shadow is heavily derived from the maternal abuse that he experienced let me reiterate the shadow is everything that you do not want to become it's the thing that you constantly sweep away the parts of you that you want to forget about that you want to never think about it's deeply ingrained in the unconscious and yet at the same time it's smack dab in the middle of your psyche I wouldn't blame William for repressing all these memories that he has of his mother and so naturally all these things that he's forgotten about he's repressed he's swept under the rug has mostly to do with his mother it's affected his shadow to the point where it's almost transformed halfway through into his mother explaining the androgynous nature of this archetype this is why we see in certain moments when William's Shadow emerges not only with the stranger but just how he is with when he's about to kill Martha we see these motifs of a naughty girl a dirty girl the Bold text even at points because of his anxiety his fear he allowed his shadow to fester and most of what Fester were things that had directly to do with his mother the shadow exists in the part of you that is just in complete darkness the part you pay no mind to the part that you ignore the part you wish to forget about and what did William do with Lila's real he threw it into that same Abyss into the place that he wants to forget about he wants to forget about lla so she never reemerges again and so I believe this is why lla so masterfully wields his shadow after reemerging and now speaking of lla we go on to the sole image or the anima of William the sole image or perfect girl for William is personified in Lila a contrasexual vampiric manipulative archetype inducing despair from endless philosophizing this sort of sist mirror to Williams simplemindedness which's what's interesting is again according to this yungan sort of archetype we times see a correlation of men young men with these kinds of Soul images you know derived from this unhealthy understanding of women of course in Williams case deriving from the abuse he suffer from his mother we typically see some level of misogyny kind of pour through emerge through we don't see anything too apparent with William however we do kind of see a little bit of a Madonna horror kind of complex thing going on especially when we see how he treats Martha again calling her a dirty girl and all that stuff again derived from his mother's influence on his shadow unfortunately I have nothing for the man of Personality that part simply eludes me perhaps the man of personality is just the Emperor or perhaps it's just the concept of computer games and coding that's sort of the Mana personality that courses through all these characters in all of their Collective unconsciousness but moving on we have the self it's all the parts of will that are not all these other parts if you were to strip it all away what would you have left the part of will that likes lemon soda overthinks a lot is Young and has memories of breaking his leg when he was a kid or as lla puts it his personality and memories if I'm correct in thinking that we're playing as a sort of stripped down Blank Slate of will stripped down to just sort of this base this foundation of the self it would make sense that these memories and personality traits and emotions sort of these imprints of all this other stuff Peaks through in our game play so that's my appraisal of William psyche throughout this game now what truly happened to William I think the best way to go over William's fate is to go through the succession of events I'll give you the spark note out of all the flashback scenes flashback memories that we have access to in this game the earliest one we have access to is the Ascension sequence right before the Forest ending where we're climbing up those stairs it's the first time lla ever even evokes this concept of the prince almost causing us to emerge into the game play lla attempts to mind F ego death William partaking in all sorts of levels of sestry just to get him to second guess himself and get scared and run away from his own vessel her hope is that she can cause William to spiral and obliterate his psyche allowing her to occupy his remains this doesn't work so the day of the Calamity William tosses laya's reel deep into his psyche leaving only his reel in his projector notice how the tower projector is different from the forest projector I believe that Tower projector is Williams projector there are two reels inside of Williams projector and so he removes lilas and tosses it into the abyss he cannot destroy the Reel only do his best to bury it in the darkness that's the problem with memes even speaking in a broadly sense that you cannot forget them you can either hide them or face them and Sly William chose to hide them she festers deep in his unconsciousness perhaps that's where she meets his shadow lla is reawaken from Tanya and William meeting and dancing so close to each other face to face but the day of their Affair when T asks the question who's Lila invoking lla lla fully emerges and not only that I believe that this is the key moment in which the entire game is built out of the moment Tanya utters the words who's Laya the game this unique you am is born it could be at this point that's when William is abonded from his own body and eventually he becomes William however if we keep going with this chain of events the prince finally fully emerges into the who's Lila you or game the prince retrieves the wheel being heavily guarded by the empress and places it in the forest projector you could then argue William is then brought back into the fold but only in this Forest realm suuck in this sort of limbo of the game's coding it's almost as if William was only to exist as a memory in this game however he was ripped brought into this game and is stuck as William there's a lot Miss missing perhaps William abcon on his own accord because he was scared of what he was about to witness when lla and his shadow murdered Tanya or maybe Laya in all her power simply forced him away took full control and the for the entire game William was just stuck in that corrupted sa of limbo as William and I guess that and that essentially is what makes William a martyr much of what he suffers through and much of what others are suffer through because of him or his actions can all be traced back to the abuse and pain he suffered through as a child at the hands of his mother and how fitting is that the mother is a sort of mirror image to Lilith the Reversed Empress the upside down mother in the tarot Arcana and so how fitting is it that all of this suffering comes from the actions of one mother and in an a strange cyclical way it comes all the way back to feed Lilith the Twisted devouring mother of the outer World feeding the Twisted devouring mother of the inner world how screwed up and so despite William having problems he did kill people he killed Tanya at the very least I can understand why he's seen as a martyr well listen I'm a hawk when it comes to these things you hurt people done but in this case I get it I get why he's kind of a a martyr in this case not to take away from the martym that Tanya goes through that Martha goes through it just so happens that this is the story that we experience in the um of who is lla anyways let us move on I really like the idea of us the player being a character in this game a part of its Mythos in most other games we play we aren't a character we simply control the character you the player aren't the dragon born in Skyrim you simply control the dragon born you the player aren't frisk in undertale you simply control Frisk this idea of the player being this perceiver this Prince this projector is so alluring to me just think about the title The Prince if we are the prince and gedan is the Emperor there is this sort of hierarchical symbiosis between the two of us although we are below the emperor like an angel to God or a prince to an emperor we are sort of an extension of his will by sustaining this part of his realm after such an edifying realization you could understand my bitterness towards the sort of deadend final answer of hooo detective you is you cuz you sounds like you because frankly just like the Tula talk with Jay and Mandy while this might not be a red herring it's just a it's a noob trap to make us think that the mystery doesn't go any deeper than simply you is you yes detective you has a link to us but it's far more interesting that you're simply being referential we are not detective youu detective youu is not us we sustain the life of the characters in this game detective you does not we have unique metagaming abilities like the ability to change our save file save and load uninstall and install the game detective you does not on the flip side there's a lot to detec of you that does not apply to us at the beginning of the game he knows the truth about the fire we don't towards the end of the game he knows what Lila whispered into his ear we will never know that as far as I know detective U is in the FBI I'm explaining to you the boundaries between detective U and the player I'm telling you what detective youu isn't what the player isn't but now it's about time I tell you who detective you is it's about time I explain to you what this whiteboard signifies consider this a sort of I guess three-way vend diagram detective you player and the fool being poles of this vend diagram up top we have all bits of data and information that I believe are exclusively detective VI over here we have all bits of data and information that's exclusively the players and over here likewise with the fool in between we have the overlaps or theories I have that causes or indicates some level of overlap after analyzing all of this I will give my final Theory as to how all these things mix together it's not as simple as an an amalgamation a shoving together there is a sort of chain a Transfiguration where all of these bits of data meet together let's establish what I believe to be the prime vessel that we the pl the Prince play as or play through the fool looks like will it was the fool looks like will and perhaps was once occupied or inhabited by will the consequence of the fool ending is a husk and empty will he is a the fool signifies a blank slate not only in the tarot but in the game itself unlike detective you and the player the fool has his own tarot themed ending and depending on how we play out the final dialogue with Detective U the fool The Vessel of will can be killed by detective U if the will that's sitting in detective U's office is the fool Will the vessel will actually what's interesting is think about this for a second I must have already mentioned this before but let's reiterate Will's real is not actually a real but a wheel and just how detective you sounds like you the wheel kind of sounds like will we could even apply that to the noun will like the will that we hear in will power or good will will is the ability to use thoughts and actions to achieve a goal so will without his will is simply a husk unable to achieve a goal because it has no thoughts no ability to commit actions it requires someone to steer him it's just just a vessel and that's where we come in as the player while I'm not entirely sure if the forest projector itself is a one to1 representation of us the player I am very certain that us the player we are the prince of this world like I said before we have unique metagaming abilities editing our saves saving and loading the game installing and uninstalling the game another thing to note is that we have no body in the firstperson segments of the forest but now now that I think about it there is one other instance where we do have a firsters perspective and that is when detective you is holding the gun to the fool will but we see his hand the gun the arm and yet we still maintain our ability as the player to not only see what detective you is seeing we have the perspective now where we've gone from a third person or second person perspective in the detective you's office and now a first person of detective you but we can also control what he does by either clicking the mouse button to shoot William or alt F foring to close the game and reopen it much like how the prince emerges in in from the fool Will to control and make decisions somehow were able to emerge from within detective VI up until that point the only character we control is ourself and the fool so what makes detective you so special that his brain has evolved to uh let the the prince oh man I'm I'm go ribin mode out here what the hell what something makes detective you special that he is the other character that we can control and of course we've already talked about this another thing that establishes exclusivity between us the player and detective you is that we know things that he doesn't he knows things that we don't for example the emperor personally talks to us in the Reversed Emperor ending and Lyla personally Whispers to detective you so that we the player don't hear it in the final dialogue of who's Lila another interesting thing is a pre-existing knowledge of detective You by Martha Lila and fiser if we go to the interrogation ending as our first playthrough us the player theoretically not knowing about anything of the game Martha mentions detective U fiser mentions detective U keep that crap from detective View and if you happen to stumble upon the temperance reverse Temperance ending lla will say I want to talk to detective U these characters have a pre-existing knowledge of detective u meaning that he is a player or sorry a character in this game baked into it we've established the exclusivities between these three poles of this vend diag it's not even it's not even a vend diagram look at this look it's a we it's I mean it's a square but it's 1 2 3 it's it's if you simply turned it it's like the wheel man it's not like it's not a it's a square shaped wheel anyways the link between detective U and us the player is the most front-loaded of the theories we are phonetically linked to one another when Lila says it's up to you to decide in the spectrogram it's straight up spelled out to us that you is you and of course both are detectives even William himself says your mind is a detective in ways keep this in mind I know it sounds silly we're already this late in the video and we're still keeping things in mind the link between the player and the fool is less of a link and more of a symbiotic relationship or a symbiotic Harmony what got say baby bird now that's a deep cut good song but a deep cut that's another one of my catchphrases now huh no name being in the dialogue box implies a namelessness to our Avatar a blank slate and yet the Avatar is moving talking making decisions so that implies someone is steering the blank slate it wouldn't be a blank slate if it wasn't you know if it was moving and talking and so I believe the player or Prince occupies or controls the blank slate or the fool Will and finally the link between detective you and the fool Will it's sparse but in this sparse barren field there is one morsel of data one morsel of information that just seems so out of nowhere and that is the fact that the fool is detective 's favorite tarot ending Lila responds to that being his favorite ending that just because this this stupid piece of glass or ending isn't any more special because you think it's yours but detective you said it was his favorite tarot and she's saying it's your ending like he didn't say that but she extrapolated that from what he said and the Damon says still one of us the Damon is mocking him the Damon is mocking detective U because detective U is a mimicker of the prince a mimicker an impostor if you will and this ties in perfectly with my final Theory but I'll give you the framework for that final Theory and of course when Lyla first meets detective VI she says you're not like those other fools he is a fool just not like the other fools ah okay I'm getting ahead of myself all right here's the framework we the prince have stumbled upon this game making us the vessel of who Lila but in order for us to explore and navigate the the world of who Lila we must navigate through the vessel the fool now there is this theme that all of these non flashback endings are all canon in a way they're all happening at the same time despite them contradicting one another there is this atemporal sense to this game so what if in the same way everything happens at once a process of transfiguration of this amalgamation happens all at once what if over time this amalgamation became detective you the fool that requires us the prince to walk and talk over time learned to walk and talk on its own as we a detective player imprinted upon it you might think a process like this would need to take time but again if everything is happening all at once if this game I mean it's a bit of data the Press of a button bam all the data is out then it would make sense that this all happens the moment we click wake up we play the game detective U is obsessed with the story of who's lla he is a detective much like us and his favorite of the endings of the of the tarot cards which lla implies is his ending is the fool there is a piece missing in this Theory there's something that does doesn't make sense this transference this Transfiguration the why the how if you're feeling unsatisfied with this Theory this framework don't worry I felt the exact same way one of the big reasons for the delay of this video is I always felt that I was missing something that there was some sort of X Factor this final thing that I needed to figure out even if it wasn't true to tie everything together so as unsatisfying as my youu you fool theoretical you know framework is it's going to come into play in my final Theory so keep in mind the framework I introduced in the final whiteboard of who's Lila with you know the concentric circles and whatnot and keep this framework in mind because they will merge together we're going to have a I would recommend you probably shouldn't even finish this video because it's like anyways let's press on this was the part I planned on thoroughly going over all the stuff I missed um but at this point it would be frivolous to do so however I do want to point out this cool little thing that this person found no no clipping through one of the levels you can actually find the Emperor or nameless God when you no clip beneath one of the forest levels so William was referring to the body of the emperor oh and hold on that actually kind of works that actually kind of that no that that that works hella with the very first like sentence of my final Theory okay cool I'm glad we went over that but let's move on to my final Theory structured around the eight Clues to solving the mystery of who's lla and finally there are the eight Clues to solving the mystery of who's lla apparently this image was pieced together with fragments that you would have found on garage heathen's Twitter around the time of who Lila's release and honestly this reminds me a lot of David Lynch's I think it's 10 Clues to solving mahalin drive or the log lady intros during the Twin Peaks reruns so number one who is detective you simply put detective U is an FBI agent a detective who has the power to enter deeper layers of this game deeper layers of this mystery but simply put detective you is you lyla's mystery has three layers what are they that's kind of interesting right because I did mention those three layers right all interpretations are valid but there exists one correct interpretation but it comes not from the mind of the artist but from the unconscious Mind Of All Humans the logic comes not from garage Heathen but from his unconscious but perhaps the three layers of this mystery are what happened to Tanya who's Lila and where is William or perhaps it's the game World the real world and the world of the human unconscious honestly not sure sometimes when you speak there is a name sometimes there isn't what does this mean at first I thought that the blank name was just to hide the fact that we've been playing as Lila this entire time but I think at this point you and I would agree it's to signify that we're playing as a nameless husk nameless husk nameless God that's kind of interesting anyways we're playing as this husk this vessel that looks like will maybe we're playing as Will's body but will isn't present lla may come through as a primary character at points but the sustainer is us the player this is why Lila's portrait is called Lila in William's memories William is called William his memories but throughout the today is the day the the current gameplay of who Lila it's always blank maybe this will this portrait the one without a name in this dialogue is a blank slate a blank slate will that came about after the fool ending h so would this contradict any linking between detective you and the fool not quite stay tuned who is Chad Murray I don't I don't think I spent enough time talking about this perhaps this is the one uh this is probably going to go against my final grade Chad Murray is a reference to the real world artist Matt Fury Chet Murray created daada dog which was co-opted by a group of radicals Matt Fury created Pepe the Frog da da dog Pepe frog and there was a big Scandal surrounding a bunch of radicals using the Pepe the Frog but here is where things split apart Matt fury made the executive decision to kill off Pepe the Frog perhaps into despite the radicals who had co-opted it but in whose Lila the radicals co-oped daada dog and kill Chet muri there is a theme a reversal a mirror image number five what are the trees in the forest have you seen them somewhere else well we see them in that warped Forest where we talk to the emperor they're mentioned in Shier so perhaps and Q the copyrighted music the source of my many headaches oh crying out loud Twin Peaks that's right sycamore trees the sycamore trees signify the entrance to the Black Lodge whereas Deputy Hawk says you will meet your Shadow Self that's ironic a peacock quoting a hawk does this clue want to point us to the the trees or maybe it's pointing us to Twin Peaks and one of the many other references to Twin Peaks that are made in this story perhaps this one in particular if you haven't seen Twin Peaks you don't know what I'm talking about resist the urge to look up anything regarding whispering in a detective's ear okay but for the sake of thoroughness I'm going to mention this don't worry what I mean is I'm not going to spoil anything but for a moment you might not know what the heck I'm talking about if you haven't seen Twin Peak so just be patient and we'll get right into the theory we don't know what Lyla Whispers into detective U's ear but if we apply was what was whispered into detective Cooper's ear on episode one of of uh Twin Peaks that'd be kind of confusing that'd be very confusing or maybe it was referencing The Whisper that's in season three of Twin Peaks that one we still don't know for sure to this day maybe I'm not going to talk about Lila in fact none of us are going to talk about laa at all is that is that is that the reference garage Heathen what is the importance of projector reels what's special about the one in the forest projectors are vessels for reels each reel signifies perhaps the psyche the soul or just memories data that mimetically reflects information about a specific character but on to the projectors I would argue that the tower projector is a recollection of William's own projector but the projector that we the player play around with in the forest is our projector what's so special about this Forest projector is the fact that it is not projecting but receiving the image he's receiving the light of the image something is emerging a very simple theme a very simple pattern but let's keep going who is the stranger simply put Williams Shadow His Dark reflection if you will can detective you know something that we don't do we know something that he doesn't what have I been saying this entire time yes and yes we've already gone over it so these questions are Clues but the answers to their questions are also clues in of themselves the answer we get the clue that we get from number one is you is you lyla's mystery has three layers what are they hm this is a tough one I'm going to interpret the clue in this way number two number two's clue is consider the game World the real world and the unconscious world number three sometimes when you speak there is a name sometimes there isn't what what does this mean the clue I've interpreted from this is simply put the dialogue box being empty is significant but I'm biased in my theory that the dialogue box being empty means that we are playing as a blank slate a nameless husk the fool Will number four who's Chad Murray my interpretation of this clue would be the theme of a meme killing its creator is significant and here I want to point out the theme of A reversal a mirror image to our reality number five what are the trees in the forest have you seen them somewhere else I'm going to go out on a limb and interpret this clue as the references to Twin Peaks are significant specifically this this one number six what is the importance of projector reels what's special about the forest projector I'm going to be very simple with this one and say that the specific detail we want to be paying attention in that one is the projector receiving its image is significant and here again we have another mirror another theme of A reversal instead of in our world the projectors project ing images the images are projected into the projector number seven who is the stranger simply put the Shadow the clue I interpret from that is the shadow of the psyche is significant and what is the shadow a Dark Twisted reflection a reversal a mirror image and the final thing can detective you know something we don't do we know something he doesn't simply put you is not you we have the beginning the beginning you is you but at the end you is not you a reversal a reflection a mirror image going backwards upside down if we apply every single yes every single reversal to the twin P the what I think is the significant Twin Peaks reference what is being whispered into detective 's ear is the launching point for my final theory of this video of this game Sorry who's lla this dastardly reversed Emperor garage Heathen has been working on something that many have thought to be impossible to create we have enough I but even if you haven't seen Twin Peaks I think we have enough evidence evidence to support my final Theory cuz I do not want you being spoiled lla or more accurately who's Lila killed garage Heathen perhaps killed the emperor defeated the emperor compartmentalized the emperor in the same way Lila compartmentalized William or just simply put who's Laya inhabited garage Heathen and used him to create this game we the player play her game we the prince imprints unto whose Lila and imprint our desire to solve the mystery of who's Lila onto this Blank Slate fool will this empty vessel being that all nonf flashback endings are cannon in an atemporal sense we can apply the same logic the player is present while detective you a fimile of the prince fimile of the player or the fool inhabited by the player is also present in this game and so the moment you turn the game on click wake up unlock your first discussion with Detective you a copy of you is placed into the game trapping a part of you inside of it over time like I said in that aforementioned atemporal sense it's grown on its own learn to walk and talk as if it's its own walking talking being as detective you ultimately trapping a part of you inside the game and in return the part of you that's missing has been replaced by the you am of who's Lila with that I'm tired and um I just um I'm just glad to put this behind me now every artist has their motifs their style and I think Gage Heathen is attempting to Master the art of creating an a legit Cognito Hazard well at least with who's Lila we saw the prototype in Shier we saw certain themes of pseudo self-aware characters in The your amazing Tachi and so everything comes together in who Lila I hyped it up I think I hyped up my final Theory I hyped up my final Theory and at the at this point with with the SI hour of this video rendering as we speak I I'm a bit humbled and so please don't interpret this excitement as me thinking that my theory is the only correct one cuz like I said the only correct interpretation lies in the unreachable Realm of the collective of Consciousness that I actually think is pretty legit I could toss everything about Carl Yung aside and that's probably the one thing I find very fascinating is that this concept of the collective unconsciousness I am rambling let's just move on I want to take this time to thank garage Heathen thank him for making such a phenomenal video game throughout the video I don't know if you didn't I don't know if you noticed I didn't lean too much into the into the David Lynch interpretation throughout the majority of this video CU in my opinion and I ain't trying to brownnose you g Ethan I think your work transcends the lynchian kind of style I look forward to the release of dystopian debugger you know along with airdorf now garage Heathen is one of my favorite Indie developers in video games and of course thank you all all of you viewers all of you detectives and all of you detective viewers for being so patient this video give or take would have been uploaded maybe a month ago if it weren't for certain events that took place literally the night or I should say like the very early early morning after Jennifer's Body was uploaded it was a rough month and while a month of recovering seems like a long time it would have been a lot longer if it weren't for You Beautiful People for putting the wind in my sales the next video is going to be susperia I've been putting it off for so long but everything happens for a reason the things I've learned in who's Lila the things I even learned in the Jennifer's Body video will be perfectly applied to saperia regardless thank you all for your patience I have a bunch of stuff written down thank you for the people who've been emailing me of course gav comes to mind but a few other people come to mind I don't want to you know name people you know directly I've been playing the games many of you have been recommending I've been looking at into the movies that you've been recommending all thank you all for the emails thank you specifically to the Friday night funkin Community for making all this cool stuff all of you put the wind in my sales the reason why this is uploaded this month and not 3 four 5 months from now uh is because of all of you without a DI out so anyways um I'll be keeping all of you in mindo I'll see you soon