I've had them for weeks now and i finally drew them in colour so: meet Serpentine!! they're a pharmacist and a shopkeeper (allowing you to come by and buy temporary boosts and upgrades and stuff)
They seem to be pretty familiar with Harlow but none of the staff knows why or in what way, no one knows what's their deal so don't even ask!!!! /nsrs
also I'm aware the size difference of them and the other characters is diabolical š„¹ i just wanted it to properly reflect the fact they're a (albino) Burmese Python and not some smaller python/boa/snake/whatever
Name: BarneyĀ
Age: Adult but the exact unknown
Species: most likely some kind of Rabbit or Hare but itās unspecifiedĀ
Personality, Mannerisms, ect:
He's shown to be rather polite and friendly, using this to gain the players' trust. Itās likely a facade seeing how quickly he switches up to threatening us once Officer Duckman shows up or when heās refused something
Heās seemingly shown to be an at least somewhat competent manipulator, he uses flattery and praises to get closer to the player so he can get what he wants (coffee, favours ect.).Ā
He refers to the player as a āfriendā quite persistently (like literally every other sentence oh my god bruh) pretty much since the first encounter with him. He dosnāt do this to any other characters, examples we have are the Ratthew interactions and the fact Harlow never brings this little āquirkā of his up when we ask him about Barney
Observations:
I find the choice of the assets used for his model very interesting, the moustache being the Roblox Limited āMaster of Disguise Mustacheā and his hat being the (also limited) āCoffee House Intellectual Imposterā:
The description of the moustache states: āSee, once you put on the mustache, no one recognizes you. Unless you already had one, everyone remembers a guy with two mustaches.ā which might imply his āstache is FAKE and that heās a moustache FRAUD (take this with a grain of salt tho)
The description of his hat goes: āYou like to sit in coffee houses and attempt to impress random other customers with your faux-intellectualism. You pronounce Goethe like "Go-eth". You order lattes made with free trade soy milk. You pretend to like poetry accompanied by bongos. You are everything that is wrong with this country.ā This might further imply the way he presents himself to us as a player is a persona, a facade he puts on to appear the way he does. We could also take this at face value and just say heās a jackass faux intellectual when it comes to ordering coffee in coffee places.
Harlow mentions him dropping a book titled āAdvanced Quantum MechanicsĀ For Geniusesā. Harlow says this might imply him to be smarter than he seems but knowing Barney carrying a book like that could totally be a preformative action- Personally I prefer to take Harlowās speculation at face value though, it seems to be what the developers had in mind for Barney.
Harlow also mentions him as usually seemingly not present in the here and now, āday dreaming like heās not really thereā. I donāt have a comment or speculation about this one that wouldnāt be a head canon so iāll probably say a bit more about this under the hc section
Despite hinting at harm with his threats if sold out to the police or refused he never actually harms the player for whatever reason.
QUESTIONS:
WHY does he ask us for a picture? :
he is not fully aware of his anomalous status and wants to get a picture taken to check a suspicion (he might not own a phone since heās on the run)
he for some reason wants to reveal himself as an anomaly to us- This is kinda dumber than the explanation above but not out of the question
Why does Barney ask for a scalpel?Ā :
he needs a secondary weapon to his knife for whatever reason
the scalpel IS the knife we see later on but the model is different because the devs overlooked it idk šš
Why doesn't Barney ever actually harm the player despite threatening to do so?
Maybe heās aware heād somehow be at a disadvantage while in a fight with the player and his threats are a bluff?
genuinely no idea besides this because i find it unlikely that he actually sees us as a friend (especially when refused or ratted out to the police)
Ā Ā If any of you have more questions drop them on comments or the ask box i WILL be answering them the best i can
HEADCANONS:
He doesn't actually like coffee all that much, he says how much he likes coffee sometimes performatively but in reality he only drinks it to āself medicateā to keep whatās left of his sanity.
He used to be a college professor before getting infected by an anomaly. To be more specific, a physics professor.
he was always a manipulative individual, just didnāt use it as maliciously before becoming an anomaly
his moustache is FAKEEEE (this could be canon but iām putting it here anyways)
I could add more head canons but i really wanna post this already so this will have to doĀ
THIS IS SO AWESOME YESTEYY3ESSS I LOVE THESE TAKES SO MUCH OH MY GOD BARNEYššš #RESIDENTIALPERFORMATIVECORNBALLšššTYSMNUKEššš
(a disclaimer before i go into this but i do not HATE liz as a character, i just think the lore she's trying to present us makes no sense lol)
This has been on my mind for so so long, pretty much since the update came out 9 days ago. Animal Hospital lore is pretty vague so when i heard about Liz i was pretty exited to see what she could present us with in the lore department and?? hello?? this is some BULLSHITTT šš
rest under the cut i didn't want the post to appear as obnoxiously long when someoneās js scrolling for art
So, what do we know about Liz? She introduces herself and says she recently got fired because a news story she wanted to post was deemed fake by the Animal Corp (which is interesting because we know they're secretive and shi). She then gives us the quest with the pictures and all that.
during the 2nd encounter if we took the correct picture she explains why she needs the pictures, she's leading an vigilante investigation (probably illegal </3) because she thinks the anomalies are not a coincidence. SURE, fair, still somewhat fair, i can see why she'd think that!
3rd encounter: Liz tells us the patients she asks us to take pictures of have something in common, they all consistently came to the hospital (even before we as a player got hired) before in the span of weeks which could explain why she "knew" who to take pictures of- This lowkey falls apart when you think about how she acquired this data because she either illegally accessed the medical records of these people or stalked them, either way it doesnāt look good for you Liz and i am starting to think there are more reasons for you being fired rather than just "misinformation".
also generally I am kinda hating the implication of the hospital gradually causing the anomaly transformation in the span of weeks if not months. Yes it'd make sense if Animal Corporation was trying to discreetly spread anomalies (because it'd be kinda obvious if the guy who just visited the hospital 2 days ago was suddenly a skin walker-) but..? why would they do that?? what's the end goal with that I'm crying. I'll get more into why it's stupid ash in a second.
4th time we see her she straight up tells us the patients are going thru a transformation and that it's related to THIS specific hospital as it's implied through the previous encounters and this is just bullshit
The action of the game CANONICALLY takes place somewhere on the outskirts of the South Korean city Daegu (ėźµ¬), like, right next to a rather big golfing field actually (throwing in a little fun fact). And if we're to assume all the countries and continents still operate the same as they do in the real world (which is a bit of a stretch seeing as all the differences between animal species would impact how the world operates but for the sake of my own mental health i will not be rewriting the entirety of history to account for all the disadvantages/advantages animal's might have over each other) this city is HUGE. It's a metropolis with more than 2 million people living in it- There is NO way a potentially city wide (if not country-wide/world-wide, we see it on the news after shift 4 but it's hard to tell if it's regional or national) infection is MANUALLY and SLOWLY spread by people going to ONE hospital that's not even in the city CENTRE (ESPECIALLY SEEING HOW MANY ANOMALIES THERE ARE IN GAME) OH MY GOD DHIUHUIDAHIUDSHI. Liz no wonder you got fired this is such a dumbass theory think about this Liz
5th and final time she comes she says she has all the evidence she needs for her story and that they fired her because what she wanted to say was true (which she doesnāt explicitly say what her story was we can only assume it has to do with the transformation and it being linked to the hospital) and- LIZ HOW DID YOU KNOW YOUR STORY WAS PUBLISH WORTHY BEFORE GETTING THE "EVIDENCE" OF IT BEING TRUE ššš oh my god bro i am getting so mad at this. She was seriously gonna publish a life ruining, building shutting down, career ending claim with no evidence šš
oh and if that's not enough we also have Big H's dialogue about her to account for:
Harlow's dialogue is pissing me off here (as much as i love this guy) because his ominous ass "oh you js don't ask questions...." implies she was at least SOMEWHAT close to the truth šš son she was spewing BS that's why she got fired. Also the hesitance before saying "i don't know the reason" lowkey implies he does know and is being a bit of a unreliable narrator
also Liz is still considered new in "town"(even tho this a metropolis but it might just be a figure of speech) and is a recent graduate according to Harlow so this implies she didn't have this news job for very long. It's a little strange that she "figured out" the link between the hospital and the anomalies (which i DO believe in don't get me wrong, it's just definitely not whatever Liz's conclusion is.) while most of the city's population is still clueless despite the anomalies likely being a thing for a while now? idk it feels pretty off to me and Liz being an ex Animal Corp worker doesnāt make this better because her clearance level was still definitely very civilian like.
Other concerns:
- How does the UV camera reveal the anomalies in a way a normal camera cannot? I don't have possible explanations but i'm just putting it out there
- That's all i can think of right now actually, i covered pretty much everything about Liz
CONCLUSION?: LIZ IS A FRAUD (nd prolly a criminal) Lisbeth? more like Fraudbeth
Lowkey let me know if any of you guys even read this to the end and if you would want me to post my thoughts about the other characters at some point
this game's lore both pisses me off and drives me CRAZYYYY (/pos), i love all these little guys so much
all the internlings together since i see them a diferent people, they don't all have dot eyes but next to other characters all of their irises are very small (and lack colour)
bonuses of the Rascal skin for intern (i lwk don't see them as a bunny) and Harlow as an intern (related to my made up hc lore i have for big H)(also yes me and Harlow are close like that i don't have to use the titlee
expect WAYY more slop in the future and also a lot of rants probably
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