Okay but what if the ending of Bramble was all a dream?? I mean, I think they planned it out so you’d think “oh my gosh; and it was all a dream!!” in the end, but then there’s the toys on the shelves and Olle outside which makes you think “no it wasn’t actually a dream because Olle is braver after having faced a great many of his fears, and the figures he had collected are here on the shelf.”
But the thing is, realistically speaking, Olle wouldn’t have been able to carry them. Sure game-wise it’s just showing off the stuff you’d collected and he has a sort of “inventory” to hold them; but in their universe that wouldn’t have really been possible.
Unless it really was a dream and he’d dreamt of collecting the figures.
‘Cause everything that happens is based on the books their mum reads them yeah? There’s no saying they wouldn’t also have figures from said stories; perhaps even carved by their mother too!
(Not to mention I doubt he’d be very “brave” after facing all his fears. He was traumatized. My boy needs a long nap and a vacation away from the forest).
Thematically it’s a perfect circle ending where Lilemor would go on her own bramble adventure, wind up having to rescue her brother, get traumatized a shit ton, then defeat the mountain king; and then Olle would wake up at the end of it all for it to start all over again back in his perspective. And so forth. Meaning they could also be in a time loop.
But what if both are them getting bad dreams from their mum’s stories and that’s all they are? No actual adventures or curses that they face deep in the night, but bad dreams they keep waking up to and that’s all??
As horrible as it would be to keep having such dreadful dreams, I feel like this would be the preferred truth.
But the other two could also be plausible.
The reason we can’t really discern for ourselves what it might be is because we don’t see any of their life outside of their bramble adventures, so we can’t be sure of magic is actually real in their universe; and even then, if they’re like told off from trusting strangers cause they could be the fae tryna take them to fairyland or what have you, who’s to say that magic is actually real then or if it’s just something people tell their children so they don’t go trusting creeps??
Or what if it’s a universe where only kids know magic is real and the adults have all forgotten? — a classic.
I guess we’ll never really know actually. But it’s fun to theorize eh?
