i’m gonna be up at four am tomorrow so i should, technically, be in bed, but i’m not. instead, i wanted to share with you all this piece of information that doesn’t come up at all during the course of Groundhog Day and isn’t actually vital, but I’ve been thinking about it non-stop today and i think that writing it down might help make it leave me alone...and if it’s written, it should be shared!
it got longer than i meant so i put it under a cut and while i don’t normally add my tags list to info pieces like this, i also am still working out all the finer details of the multiverse, so i thought adding the tags system couldn’t hurt!
while this is the general base to the multiverse, some facts might change at a later date!
the multiverse theory. it’s, of course, one of the grounding features of Groundhog Day and, on a wider spectrum, the idea of the kingdom of Fara. on a meta level, the multiverse is made up of every iteration of the game released - just as Legend of Zelda has countless stories, each following the same Hero of Time through various versions of Hyrule, so too are there countless games that follow the country of Fara.
the idea is that Fields of Fara is the very, very first game. it’s the original. Locke and Blue, Polynya and Flame, the kingdom of Fara with Barrier Town and a thriving honeycomb wastes; that was the first game released.
so every variation of the game contains a version of Locke, and a version of Blue.
but here’s the catch.
just like Pokemon always has two games released at the same time, the Fara Chronicles (as the collective of games is known, in this hypothetical metaphorical meta universe) are always released two games at a time.
each game has an iteration of Fara, of Locke, of Blue...but each game also has a direct foil.
Fara Falls and Fields of Fara were released within a month of each other, after initial reviews and testing for Fields of Fara ended up being off the chart. After that, each iteration of the game was released as a dual set. that means for example, Knight A and Knight B are off-sets of Locke, but they are direct foils of each other.
then you pull it into a more confined, in-universe setting.
Fields of Fara and Fara Falls are “foil universes”. it’s theorized that the glitch switches Red and Blue because they’re from universes very close to each other; with Fields of Fara being at the center of the multiverse, and the rest of the universes spiraling outwards.
some of these universes are closer together than others; clusters of coding that are more tightly linked. these are “foil universes”. the further apart a universe is from another, the more vastly different that version of Fara, and the characters within, become.
and the space between universes?
well, that’s the Void.
that is deleted data.
that is something that no one talks about.
not even the Butterfly People.
tags list! let me know if you want on it, or off of it!
