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I need everyone whoâs been simultaneously posting about Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung to go listen to Wolf359. If your current special interest is men being sent to die in space you are gonna LOVE Doug Eiffel
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: âAw man, that guyâs cake is way better than mine.â The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork âHOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!â]
at this point andrew has entered the Facility and is destroying himself in order to get to the top. he's gaining more information but also becomes for ignorant. i believe that is why he made the mistake of falling for smiles trick. so he's more conscious and aware then ever but his heart is dying because he chooses the mind over it over and over. and when he jumps into the void it all resets.
3. the void. now, if my theory is right, the lowest layer is the least consciousness one. it can only be accessed from the top when you know of its existance. while the protocols allow you to send yourself/others a layer down (tha katabasis chris did to andrew sent him from memories back to the overworld) or up (anabasis) thats doesn't apply the void. i'll touch more on the methods of going through the layers later.
it appears to be an empty world. there's only a basis: the terrain (generated the old way btw) and the trees that are a bit uncanny but serve their purpose i guess. in the teaser we see more structures: a staircase, a computer, a house-like structure, something like a fence pen, a cave(?). all of them are pretty primitive. looks almost like someone trying to recreate something from memory but it isn't quite right.
i would also like to note that the trees are probably artificial because trees never generated in this shape, even in the older versions. it is the same shape as the tree in smile's tester though.
what do we make of all of it? honestly im not sure. i can theorize that those are the structures smile left behind since we know for sure he was there.
^ this journal also confirms you lose your memories by descending there. and it's not just the katabasis protocol effect, bc andrew remained mostly himself after undergoing lethe, while ev, well, became smile.
it's unclear if chris had been to this layer before, but id say it's unlikely.
4. wells&doors. there's currently three ways to travel between layers: wells (only going up), protocols (which there are more of then katabasis and anabasis only and not all of them include losing memories), and doors, which chris uses. we know that wells(their properties) were there even before ev, protocols, partially, were made by smile and doors have unknown origin. chris didn't build them, judjing by "this place again?" and smile can visit the door dimension ("i should be quiet here"), but for some reason it appears to be chris's corner of peace. my theory is that the land of towers and the door dimension aren't their separate layers, but more of just tools to travel. the wells are like taking a (one-way) staircase, while the doors and protocols can be concidered elevators.
5. lastly, there's more questions to be asked and analysis to be done. for example why does anabasis require layer 4 action (admin permission) when katabasis seemingly doesn't? maybe it simply doesn't show up in the logs when chris runs katabasis. the teaser basically tells us that anabasis failed to run, whether its because smile interrupted it or because chris didn't have enough admin permissions. so now they're both on the lowest layer. now we can only see how it's gonna unfold.
ok i rewatched the last vid and discarded half of my theories but still.
1. the layers. i believe the layers represent layers of self and consciousness. they're also in the wrong order. sure we have this
but chris wrote the first one a while ago (plus it might've been modified by smile since we know he read his journals) and i wouldn't trust the second map very much because smile built (?) it and actively uses it (thats because we see chris and andrew but don't see smile which wouldn't have been the case unless smile was in charge here and hid himself). i'm not saying he necessarily built the entirety of the Facility but he sure is in power here. i'm still figuring out why and how the Facility and its programs exist. I think Smile made at least some of the protocols.
thats not a strictc model because the reality itself here is ambiguous and up to interpretation whether it goes downwards, upwards or sidewards:
i also have some crumbs of evidence its order is bottom to top, not top to bottom
2. the bones. the further you go into the layers the further you are from reality. we all knew smile wanted chris and then andrew to gather and give him the bones, but why? why the bones and why couldn't he had done it himself?
ok, hear me out here. chris said they make him stronger and he was right. the bones are hidden in andrews* memories of great emotional attachment. revisiting them his nostalgia for the past is manually replaced with ignorance, anger and sorrow by smile modeling the situation.
* - or others that have great emotional significance
this way gathering the bones he's gathering his positive connections to the world and himself, smile pulls him into the game more and more by day. and when andrew brings him the bones smile has enough mental energy in form of andrews memories and emotions to manifest. i actually have a ton of evidence for that but its 10 images max per post...
in chris's case, the bones dont make him stronger, but instead he feels how they make andrew weaker. this is tied to my layers theory. once you're dead, you have acces to the top layer (operator permissions), assuming you already began climbing up the wells while you were alive. andrew on the other side has to go through losing it all manually. document proof in >part 2<
Honestly Damien trying and failing to give off cool evil villain vibes was what made me adore him so much when I first listened to the bright sessions.
What do you mean he asked his therapist if she found him scary and when she said no he responded "Why not? :(" with the most audible frown I've ever heard? What do you mean he had an entire villain monologue prepped for Chloe and when she acted confused he instantly backpedaled and said, "Shit do I have the wrong girl?"
He sucks so bad at being evil. He's doing it because it's what people expect him to be and it turns into community theater. You can tell so fast that he just wants people to think he's cool and interesting.
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