FAM I'M WITH YOU THERE I PLAYED THE GAME OVER 3 TIMES AND I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND IF I ALSO ADDRESS YOUR LONG TAGS LIST AHAHA
-The extra voice acting for the old notes and the new notes are so good! Lots of extra info for the Painter and his family I LOVE IT
-Ghost wife's new design is very melty, I think I prefer her old twitchy one but this one is still creepy as fuck
-Yeah Idk why the Rat Queen called the daughter a rat out of the blue there? Does she hate her? Hard to say haha
-So cute that the Wife/Musician also played the flute and loves the color green! But yeah, she definitely has brown eyes in her portraits (not to mention the game art for 2023 has her with brown eyes too so far as I know that's canon lmao I mean the Painter has brown eyes as well)
-The Actor's gloves are pretty cool
-The Writer is great! I love her, I should draw her sometime but rn I have Painter/his family brainrot
-Yeah the 'just leave the house' endings for the Painter and the Wife I found bizarre, especially since his ending where he did that had no dialogue or whatever? Like cmon give us something haha but I suppose they're supposed to be like 'joke endings' or something?
-I'M STILL BAFFLED THEY CHANGED HOW MR. SCOOTER LOOKED?? LIKE THEY EVEN LEFT IN THE OLD DESIGN AT SOME PARTS I DON'T GET IT (also salty he doesn't meow in Inheritance)
-"I loved him the most when he lost himself" like dude the Rat Queen is so effing creepy and her talking about the painter is like BRUH
-I'M DOWN WITH THE LOVECRAFTIAN SHIT tho I'm still unsure who we're supposed to think the Director is, been trying to find that out ever since 2 came out (I have a number of theories but any of them could work)
-DUDE SAME I WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE PAINTER AND WIFE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE RAT QUEEN AND MADE CONTRACTS WITH HER! Also did they know about each other's contracts or just their own?
-OMG the agency I made a possible theory about this the other day! I was thinking how in the Final Note that the Wife mentions going abroad to see her family and the agency was formed after her suicide, and the contest had a bunch of American writers in it, so I'm thinking she has family over in America? Either way if her family started the foundation/agency that started the contest that means her family knows about the Rat Queen!!
I’m very sorry it took me almost 3 years to respond to this ToT” (also I really didn’t expect anybody to join in this ramble post). Honestly, I don’t know where to start, because the remake did answer some of my questions from the first and second game. But it also ended up opening a BIGGER can of worms istg 😭
Regarding the new voice lines, kid!Daughter’s new dialogue initially caught me off guard because I thought it was supposed to be a new character. But then I realized we heard that line in the Daughter’s room and went oh that’s probably her voice as a kid hahah.
Also, I kinda do feel the same way with Ghost Wife’s new design. Don’t get me wrong, her new look is cool but maybe it’s just me being too high on nostalgia and still too attached to her twitchy-P.T. Lisa-inspired version lmao. Sometimes I like to headcanon her new design as how the Writer perceived the Musician’s ghost from a retelling POV, whereas her old version is how the Painter himself saw her through his his unstable state of mind and firsthand psychological and supernatural experiences :U
And I refuse to believe that the remake's version of Mr. Scooter is actually him… like who are you??? WHO ARE YOU??? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MR. SCOOTER??? 😭😭 YOU DON’T EVEN MEOW!!! 🫵💥
(Lowkey same goes for the Painter and Musician’s in-game models…)
I’m just gonna put the rest of my rambling under a cut because oh my God bruh this is gonna be an EXTREMELY long post of my thoughts and theories I’m so sorry like I’m so normal and sane about all this— /j
Painter’s got a real bone to pick with Cubism lmao (and probably the rest of the avant-garde scene). Him reading Nietzsche to his barely 2-year-old toddler is deadass something he would typically do tbh.
Rat Queen sure has… some very interesting comments about the Painter. Other lines worth mentioning are “I nested in his emptiness”, “he looked so delicious when the flame burned him out” and “you’re mine”. Imagine the Writer hearing all that for source material and go “damn do we gotta include all that in the book?” ☠️
Crazy to think how the Writer got access to not only the Painter, but his family and the Burns siblings after her pact. Was that LEGIT the Painter’s soul warning the Writer and her son’s sake during her hallucination sequence? (I mean the one where she goes through various LoF1 and LoF2 settings while writing the Actor’s story).
Another thing I wonder is whether or not the Daughter was still around when the Writer published the Painter’s story. Was she even aware of how the novel gained so much attention and success in the end? Judging by her home decor in the Forgiving ending, I’m guessing the time setting took place around the 1950s-1960s (tho it's still unconfirmed which Inheritance ending is canon). Meanwhile, the Lighthouse’s calendar showed 1955 when the Writer made her first stay there. Honestly, I couldn’t imagine the Daughter’s reaction and emotions when her past was suddenly brought up to the public all of the sudden. If it was something she preferred to leave behind and kept privately, I think that would be very sick and fucked up on the Rat Queen’s part… wth she really isn’t gonna let this girl catch a break holy shit :’(
Speaking of the Forgiving ending, I’m actually glad they made the props a bit more historically accurate because the original one had numerous anachronisms in it :” Other than that, they kept the pills sitting right next to the TV (albeit with a different appearance), but no signs of paperwork like before, and not sure if i’m picking this up correctly but the packaging reads “somniax” or something alike???
Apparently, the Director is cooking up an adaptation film of the Painter’s story, and I heard somewhere that the Actor was set to be part of the cast again. But that would be a bit odd since the Actor’s canon fate was left uncertain (and whether or not they ever finally decided on which sibling gets to live on). According to a newspaper clipping in one of the trailers, the Actor went missing while working with the Director when they were aboard the Icarus (ship where LoF2 events took place). Fast forward ten years post-publishing the Painter's story, the Writer went back to the Lighthouse and found a film reel titled “The Vessel of Flame”, then said something along the lines of “(…) guess they ended up here after the ship sank”. So, would that mean the Actor might have survived the events of LoF2? But there were no hints nor implications of them making it back into the public eye after that (iirc).
One Rat Queen line I keep pondering about is “a weak child is to be eaten, not nurtured”, triggered when we choose to push the Musician’s wheelchair in chapter 6. Then it dawned on me that in some cases, rats would eat their newborns either due to malnutrition, stress or deformities in the babies. Connect the latter reason with the Rat Queen’s line, could that be the RQ's intention on why she took the Musician’s life first? Like ever since the department store that injured her with severe burn scars, the Rat Queen then ultimately deemed the Musician as no longer “useful” due to the loss of her talents :’(
((On a side note, I've always had this hunch that the department store fire might also be the Rat Queen pulling all the strings. Hell, color me surprised if it turns out a rat was chewing on the building's wires. BUT THEN AGAIN THAT'S JUST A WILD ASSUMPTION AHEHEH))
(((And by wild assumption man do i have OTHER wilder assumptionsnsndbjshgdahjdjhwa but that'll be another post for another day because I fear once I start blabbering I will not stfu help)))
Did,,, did the second game implied the siblings (Lily to be exact) threw off an elderly lady off the ship??? I get that it was done out of self-defense from getting caught and initially the lady only tried to talk things out with the kids but like woah son😭
Ouuhh the thought of the Musician having relatives abroad is pretty interesting :0 and the likelyhood of LoF 1 taking place somewhere outside of the US too. Evidence of it throughout the game (LoF 2 exluded) has always been quite inconsistent imo, and it makes me question LoF's setting from time to time lol.
Also I like how the Director's DLC showed a bit of the Rat Queen's nature by how she immediately eliminated DLC Actor (different from Lily and James) from spreading word of her through his screenplay and how she drove the Director to alter the screenplay's narrative by making him work with DLC Actor's daughter (tho not sure if she was for real under RQ's influence).
Gonna end this post here tho I'm sorry I think this ramble post is getting too out of hand :''U. I can go on about the new paintings and more thoughts and theories about the second game and DLCs (maybe drop some random headcanons when i'm feeling a bit sillier idk) but I'll probably save those up for upcoming text posts in the future hhhhh ;'p
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