It's about time I made one of these, yeah?
Every "major" Quitland post has the "Quitland" tag. This includes the main episodes and some particularly important asks. Every QnA answer is under "Quitland Answers", so if you ever feel like hearing more specifics about the island (or want to see some cool fan art) head over there!
Alright, time for the real meat of this post:
MAIN EPISODES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
EXTRAS
How to make Quit (Tutorial)
Origins of Quit
1,000 Followers Celebration Video
Part 5.5
F.A.Q
Q: What is this?
A: Quitland; my weird experiment that involves an island in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream with 60 Mii's that are all the exact same as each other. Every single Mii is named "Quit", then with a number to specify which Quit they are. There's the first Quit, dubbed "Original Quit", and then 59 more Quits. Each Quit develops slightly differently from the last, so you never know what they're going to do...
All Quits are based on him ^. "The One True Original Quit", who exists on my main save file prior to making Quitland. Every single one has the same face, personality, voice, dating preferences, birthday, and event outfits as this Quit.
Q: Are there ANY differences between the 60 Quits?
A: Only one. That being their gender. Quit 1 is male, Quit 2 is female, and Quit 3 is nonbinary. From there the rest of the Quits were added in gender order; with Male being first, Female being second, and Nonbinary being third. So Quits 4-22 are male, 23-41 are female, and 42-60 are nonbinary. This means there's a perfect even split between the three in-game gender options, being 20 of each. So if you're ever curious on what gender a Quit is, most lower numbers are male, higher numbers are nonbinary, and everything in-between is female.
Q: Does the island have any rules?
A: Quitland has one main rule: I must interfere with the Quits lives as little as possible. This means I can't pick a Quit up and force them to interact with another Quit, they have to choose to do so. This also means I can't give a Quit food, clothing, or a treasure unless they ask me to. I can only act on what the Quits request, so if a Quit is wearing a different piece of clothing that means they asked me for clothes (I also try and stay as accurate to what the Quit asks for if I can, if a Quit asks for "cool clothes" I try to give them cool clothes).
Q: How is leveling up handled? What do you give the Quits?
A: I started this without having any specific rules for leveling up in mind, but as I progressed I began giving Quits little quirks that best fit their personality and the actions they had taken throughout the island. A particularly flirty Quit would get the quirks that made them look cuter, for example. As far as I can tell, these quirks don't seem to have an impact on how Quits interact, although more testing is needed.
Q: Can I add Quit to my island/can I draw Quit?
A: Of course!!! Never hesitate to create your own Quit, he is a creature of the people and anyone is free to use him on their own islands! You can follow the Quit Creation guide linked above if you want, or you can make him your own way! And I'm open to fan art of any kind (so long as its not hateful towards anyone, of course). You can post fan art in my asks and I'll always answer making it visible on my page, or you can post it yourself and use the #Quitland tag so I don't miss it!
Q: Can I send you a question about Quitland?
A: My ask page is always open, so anyone can always ask a question about Quit whenever they want! But I must specify that I won't answer every question, either because I have no interesting answer to give or I simply don't know what to say.
Q: Who's Original Quit?
A: Original Quit is basically just "Quit 1", the first Quit added to the island. He's called "Original" by the other Quits, and because of the fact that he was used during the games tutorial he is usually a higher level than the rest. He is also the first Quit to get into a relationship, that being with Quit 3!
At the time of writing this, Original looks like this:
Q: Who's Quit 28 and Quit 48?
A: Those two are Quits that have had an ongoing relationship arc for multiple episodes. They started on episode 1, with Quit 48 having a crush on Quit 28. It then began steadily developing through most episodes after that..you'll have to read the posts to know more...
At the time of writing this, 28 and 48 look like this (48 is on the left, 28 is on the right):
Q: Who's Quit 35?
A: Oh boy...Quit 35 is a bit of a playboy Quit. She has a track-record for quickly falling in and out of love with numerous other Quits. It's possible she's just fickle, but some say her love is so great she can't contain it within just one Quit...her constant new crushes have developed her a bit of a small fan group.
At the time of writing this, 35 looks like this:
Q: Who's Quit 27?
A: 27 is a Quit who frequently gets into fights and seems to always be angry when walking around the island. They've gained a bit of a reputation as the island asshole...and trust me, they deserve the reputation. Oh, and 27 is also my favorite number...yay!
At the time of writing this, 27 looks like this:
Q: Who are the "Ice-Cream Sandwich Society"?
A: The ICSS is a group of 3 Quits, who are all members of a self-proclaimed "Ice-Cream Sandwich Society". They can all be easily picked out in a crowd by their costumes. The members include Quit 39 (Biker Quit), Quit 36 (Demon Quit), and Quit 57 (Chicken Quit). The three frequently hang out, and are a pretty memorable bunch.
Q: Who's Quit 11?
A: 11 is a notable Quit for being very friendly by Quit standards. Quits naturally conflict with one another and will easily fall into small arguments, because of this many of them only have small friend groups of 1-3. However, 11 is the outlier with an impressively large number of friends! Generally a likable Quit, a rarity amongst this hardy group.
At the time of writing this, Quit 11 looks like this:
Q: Who's "The One True Original Quit"?
A: Not to be confused with "Original Quit", this is the ACTUAL first Quit. The Quit I made on my Wii all those years ago, and the one who resides on my main Living the Dream island. One of his more memorable features is his speaking quirk, he starts sentences with "Start" and ends them with "Cease", something Quit 1 on Quitland has also adopted. He's a bit of a religious figure to the Quits on Quitland, who are all clones of this the True Original Quit. Billboards of the True Original Quits creation can be found across the island, which is largely what sparked his God-like status amongst the Quits. What True Original Quit thinks of the Quitland clones is unclear...or if he even had a hand in their creation at all.
“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore
I've sometimes seen this sentiment, especially among reviewers, that SOMA's WAU ""monster plot"" contributes nothing to the main game's story, and that the storyline would infact benefit from the WAU's removal. If you ask me, that couldn't be further from the truth. The WAU is at the root of everything. Frankly, it's the main reason the game's moral dilemmas are.. well, dilemmas at all. If the WAU wasn't making monsters, wasn't there to warp the life around Pathos-II as it saw fit, the game wouldn't have even started. Pathos-II would've just remained dormant forever. Simon wouldn't be there, and neither would any of the obstacles he faces on his journey to preserve humanity. The main reason the WAU isn't directly beneficial to Earth is exactly because its understanding of "life" is so skewed. Its not just bringing things back - its bringing them back incorrectly. Every single "monster" we meet builds a case both against and for the WAU's continued existence.
The Construct shows the WAU's failure to understand humanity in the physical sense, shoving a Human brain scan into a misshapen robot body and calling it a day, leaving it to babble to itself as it aimlessly wanders the halls of Upsilon.
The same could be said for Carl Semken and the other Mockingbirds, though to a lesser degree - though capable of speech, they're still very delusional and oftentimes end up going insane. Still, in some ways you see the WAU's understanding of human psychology progress with each new mockingbird - they become increasingly coherent and increasingly sane, Catherine and Robin Bass being great examples. While the Construct has lost so much of itself you can no longer tell who it used to be, the other Mockingbirds have their sense of self intact.
With the WAU's unreliable nature cemented, we move on to its attempts at preserving humans physically, with Amy Azarro being the first proper example Simon gets to witness.
She's kept alive in what seems to be a perpetual state of discomfort, and judging by the structure gel slowly overtaking her I believe the WAU may be slowly converting her into one of the Fleshers. Its keeping her alive, yes, but its doing so at any cost necessary - it doesn't matter if she's in constant pain as long as she doesn't flatline. Its treatment of actual organisms is practically an inversion of its treatment of the Mockingbirds - instead of prioritizing the mental wellbeing of the subject, the WAU prioritizes their physical wellbeing with little to no care for the mental state its "patient" is in the entire time.
Fleshers live and breathe, but they seemingly aren't "all there" at all. The lights are on, but no one's home anymore. All they do is wander the ruins of the CURIE and lash out at anyone who enters their territory - the WAU has basically reduced them to animals.
Terry's been driven insane from all the structure gel infesting his insides, and though his goal was "technically" benevolent (putting everyone into a permanent dream state where the WAU could make them live the best possible versions of their lives), he achieved it through incredibly violent means, conducting what was basically an attack on Theta and causing its downfall. So far, its attempts at preserving humans physically have simply resulted in increasingly grotesque and violent monstrosities - but I would argue you see that begin to change when Simon reaches Omicron.
When you reach it, you see the aftermath of a particularly gruesome procedure WAU had carried out - everyone's blackboxes have exploded, turning their heads to mush. We find out that one of the employees, with the help of someone particularly close to the WAU, had figured out how to poison it. They have been receiving "visions" and "messages" from a comatose Johan Ross - the WAU's "AI psychologist", someone it desperately tried to restore from a comatose state by manipulating structure gel with electromagnetic fields. Either the WAU deliberately retaliated when it figured out the poisoning plot, or it had simply overdone it when restoring Johan Ross - sacrificing an entire station's worth of lives to bring someone back. Either way this shows a tremendous amount of intelligence on the WAU's part - and also paints it as either exceptionally cruel or exceptionally empathetic depending on the perspective you view it from. Either it considered Johan so important to it that it was willing to sacrifice most Omicron staff, or it was willing to violently retaliate in order to preserve itself.
Either way, Omicron houses what I believe to be a sign of the WAU's steadily improving understanding of humanity - Dr. Johan Ross.
He has been restored with both his physical health and mental faculties (relatively) intact. He isn't violent, and he perfectly understands what condition he is currently in - but despite that he doesn't seem to be physically suffering. He is still driven to eliminate the WAU, but it seems to be less out of personal suffering and more out of fear in regards to the suffering its other creations may go through. I believe he's an example of a semi-perfectly restored human - both him and Simon himself. They're both cases of, as Catherine puts it, "a sound mind in a sound body". But although the signs are there, there is no outright definitive proof that the WAU's creations will only continue to get better.
And that's what makes the game's final moral dilemma so compelling to me. The whole game has been providing us with both evidence and counterevidence towards the WAU's idea of restoring humanity. Now, it's up to you to act as its jury and executioner. By killing it you either stop it from torturing the memory of humanity, or you doom humanity to extinction in all senses of the word. By keeping it alive, you either doom the remnants of humanity to an eternal torturous existence, or you give the WAU a chance at creating something new. There is no way of knowing what choice is correct - because you don't know what the WAU is thinking. You never get to. You don't know its plans, you don't know if it even has the capacity to actually learn from its mistakes, hell, you don't even know if its capable of thought - but here it is. Making things. Terrible things, but there's a chance that it'll only get better with time. Simon himself is evidence of that chance. It has already managed to make what could be classified as a "complete" person. And if you kill it, Simon's going to be the last "complete" person it managed to bring back.
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