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sharing Double Fine's official statement of returning to indie from this morning! since I know ppl were concerned abt the current state of xbox's looming layoffs/studio shut downs
I know a few of you love Cheri so I hope you didn’t miss her too bad while she was gone! Frankly I had been avoiding drawing her because I just wasn’t happy with her design anymore and I didn’t find her backstory that inspiring! She’s got a new design (and a new backstory if anyone wants to hear it) so I’m feeling re-Cheri-invigorated !!
part two of my design updates :] (part one with hector and capo)
nothing like, conceptually new, i mostly just polished what i already had. i do think it looks better this way and i'm esp proud of ban i love him sm now <3
as a bonus motivation for you to check out part one, i did some expression practice with hector to get a better hang of his new face
GREAT GOD GROVE is out now!! i had the pleasure of composing a lot of fun and funky and also weird and dramatic music for this game and i hope you'll check it out <3
on Steam and Switch!! (soundtrack on Bandcamp too!!)
"Are you new here? I’m new too."
What if the one she met wasn't Frank at all?
If somebody is interested in the madness “theory”, I'll put it right under here.
Keep in mind before continuing: this is straight up just a theory/headcanon, I'm gonna share it without any other purpose than having fun theorizing. I put some points you can follow, I am sorry this is gonna be long and crazy.
So, I believe the puppet Julie met could be...Wally.
This whole madness was caused by Julie's story in the video "regard forgetfulness silence"...
The memory
The way Julie is speaking seems off to me, as well as the way she recounts her first meeting with Frank.
She "think" that's how she met him, isn't it strange she can't recall precisely how she met the dearest puppet to her?
We know Julie have difficulties with her memory, but she seems to remember stuff that happened when hanging out with Frank, why the most important moment is so unclear to her?
This could mean that she can't remember the interaction correctly and that her memories are being heavily corrupted by something or that the whole thing is made up by someone.
The encounter
Even the encounter is iffy, the puppet she met doesn't seems to speak like Frank Does.
"Are you new here? I'm new too. My name is Frank"
This speech pattern sound more similar to Wally to me.
And after that, she says that he made a corny joke and she laughed at it, we know that Frank is not really the one who tells jokes. Heck, he is not even good at telling them.
You could argue about Wally and jokes too, he's not very skilled at telling them after all, but I can imagine two scenarios:
-Him speaking normally and not realizing he is saying something funny to her. (this could apply to Frank too)
-His best friend love to tell jokes and we know that Barnaby encourage Wally to chat and tell jokes to the Neighbors, it could be that noticing she was scared he tried to tell a joke to her.
The fruit basket
Okay now I am really looking into stuff, I know, but why would Frank bring a big fruit basket around? Julie says it's because he was going to say hi to her but we know the friendliest neighbor in the whole place is Wally itself. Wouldn't it make more sense for him to be the one going to say hi?
The fruit basket could also just be related to Wally going out into the woods to paint a still life since he is a painter.
“Was he mad?”
She was worried that "Frank" was mad at her when they met.
Strange, because Frank emotions are very easy to read, he's a very expressive puppet. We also know that when he feel a very strong emotion (like being mad) his head spins. Why she would question it?
If it was Wally, his emotions are more difficult to read and it could be that she didn't understood his intentions immediately.
Wally itself
The fact she bring up Wally while recalling Frank's meeting is strange too. She says she met Wally the same day, why not meeting the whole neighborhood then? Maybe it was just them at the beginning and it would make sense in that case.
But Wally comes up at the end of the audio asking "Did all that really happen, Julie?" like he is asking her like all of that was made up or straight up incorrect.
Aaand I'm done! I'm not even sure any of this makes sense to anyone else, but it was stuck with me since the update and I wanted to draw it and share it.
Maybe it was Frank, maybe it was really Wally, maybe it never happened in the first place but... Everything sound too strange to be as the story says.
And don't get me wrong with all of this! I love Frank and Julie relationship a lot, I am not going against them in any way. I like to go deep inside the stories I am following and I speculate a lot about stuff!
(Also I wanna apologize if my english is not the best, it's not my first language)
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