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I can't stop thinking about the Houses in Detective Beebo. This always happens to me, latching onto the main characters? Nah uh. Go to House world instead. I'm stuck in "Haunted House" island, got taken by the waves I can never get out anymore.

The Houses are just sooo good. For me. The formation of the "heart" specially. I keep thinking bout it. For the art gallery, the heart is the map, for the House of Vera it had two hearts until gaining a new one during endings 9 and 10. The first heart it had before being called the House of Vera was a shield, and then it became a grandfather clock.

There's a theme here and the question of "how did the hearts form?" In one of the notes during investigation treasure hunt of House of Vera's history, Dr. Roberto Diaz gave the house a new "purpose" after destroying the shield from grieving his wife's death. He got "fused" with the house, he couldn't tell his feet apart from the floor, he can feel his heartbeat echo in the corridors, the water leak matched with his tears. He became one with the house all while the house gained a new purpose and power, to give him one more chance despite the person he so desperately wanted to live again remained dead. The house gained the power to reset time within the house every 8 pm whenever someone dies, which allowed the doctor to save every patient inside.

Obviously, a House becomes Haunted when given a purpose, much like what the doctor did. But what about the heart? The doctor became one with the house, so during that moment the grandfather clock hasn't been desginated as the "heart" of it yet, since during that moment, the heart is Dr. Diaz himself, he feels everything that happens in the house, like an extension of his body. He hears his own heartbeat in the corridors, the house is his body just as how his body belongs to the house.

But when Dr. Diaz died after visiting his daughter, having succumbed to an illness that should've taken his life years ago, the House still has its purpose, it still needs to live on despite the doctor's death. So maybe, it chose its own heart.

The theme is that each heart is connected to a House's purpose. The art gallery's heart was a map, the purpose given to that house by a struggling artist was meant to be innocent enough, the artist wanted people to look at all their art and never leave. Unfortunately the House took that a bit literally, by making it an endless labyrinth with no exit. The purpose is to have every visitor "see all the art" and what better tool to navigate through the entirety of a gallery to see all the art within it but a map!

I wonder if the artist felt the same way that Dr. Diaz did, being fused with the house, feeling everything happening inside it. Did the artist themself get trapped within their own house? Did they get overwhelmed from the new sensations brought upon being fused with a building meant for multiple people to go in and out of for hours on end? Were they the only one the house allowed to come and go easily? Did they see what became of the people that went inside the art gallery and never came out? Were they filled with guilt upon seeing it?

One thing's for certain is that the art gallery has been abandoned for years, with only a map to serve as its heart. The House of Vera, before being known as that, had a different heart and purpose. Before Dr. Diaz became the owner of it, the house was known to have survived any and all tragedies that came its way, even the earthquakes that happened in the past didn't destroy it. That was because of its first purpose before Dr. Diaz unknowingly changed it, the House's purpose was to be an indestructible shield. Perhaps it was due to the colonial era and the owners needing a strong shelter in such a stressful time, the House was given the purpose to protect everyone inside it.

So its first heart, was a shield, to mirror that purpose. But because Dr. Diaz destroyed that shield, the House lost its purpose Momentarily until it immediately latched onto a new purpose presented by Dr. Diaz himself. The House, whose purpose has always been to protect, in a poetic sense, was given One More Chance to protect others much like how Dr. Diaz was given a chance to save all his patients so long as they're within the House.

And so comes ending 9 and 10. The two endings in which the House's heart gets destroyed yet is given a purpose once more. The new heart, for as long as he lives, is Detective Oliver Beebo. He's incredibly sensitive to the world around him, so the new sensations that came from having fused with the House was Far Too Overwhelming. It's unsure how the other living hearts reacted to that, but from the notes written by Dr. Diaz, he seemed to have gotten used to it enough to keep going as usual.

The new purpose that Oliver gave the house was simple: To keep Ángel alive. And so, for as long as Oliver lives and the House stays, Ángel lives as well. In a sense, immortality is shared between the three of them. The House remains undisturbed, Oliver and Ángel lives. From the three examples with the object hearts that the House's had, it seems that even if Oliver dies, the House will merely look for an object connected to its purpose to serve as its heart, which would allow Ángel to continue living. But I doubt he would want that.

What happens to a House that failed to fulfill its purpose then? What would become to a House whose purpose isn't tied to it, but tied to a person? What would happen to the House of Vera, with its newest purpose, should Ángel die? Will it continue living so long as its heart is beating? Will it look for another person to latch onto as its new purpose? Or will it die for having failed to fulfill the purpose of its existence? The House of Vera has been shown to be a house that craves to protect others, from the shield, to the grandfather clock, and now to Oliver's desire for Ángel to live. What would happen to it then should it fail to protect even a single person?

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