Just saw the whole playthrough of ATA3, spoiler under keep reading as ima yap for a little bit!
Side note (edit, 11/7): I am going to watch through all of the games and take notes soon when I'm not busy. After I compile all of the notes, I'm going to repost it from here.
So, quite shocked about Marcus!
But confused on why we never really heard about the Butcher again, I need to watch the games in order in one sitting to really try to find the other plot holes. (As I can't remember all of them).
With the card saying "He never grew up" - Knowing that he's an adult, maybe he was childish at Hamlen?
Maybe he was an very childish person or being Wooly in the tapes, idk what it is, but Wooly always gave me a childish vibe in the 2nd game (like vs the first game, Amanda seemed to be childish while Wooly was more mature, etc.)
I did see all endings and the whole game, but knowing that Halmen is STILL OUT THERE - What's going to happen now? And what about Rebecca, yes, she was in an test tube for over an decade but she looks in REALLY bad shape (and cleary so!)
But hey, if anyone wants to yap in comments, feel free, I wanna hear ya'lls thoughts on this!
(Honestly just waiting for aus to appear or ideas to fill the plot holes tbh.
I personally feel like it would make sense for Marcus to be an child at the Hamlen company but maybe the reason why he's an adult, is that he could have more control over Amanda in the tapes, like more emotionally mature for example if that makes sense - and he may have acted the way he did throughout the games as with the posters and all of the other stuff in the offices.
That was until he got tired of the bs or realized that he was losing control over Rebecca and that led him to snapping, even with Chickenscratch!
(Idk who chickenscratch is supposed to represent or who may represent, at first I thought that they represented Hamlen but that's out the window..)
Edit: I JUST REALIZED, IS JORDAN SUPPOSED TO BE CHICKENSCRATCH??
Edit II (from an comment I left under this post):
If I remember correctly, a youtuber I watched playing Amanda the Adventurer (I think it was ATA2?), had a thought or theory that Hamlen is like the Pied Piper, considering that its logo is a rat, luring children away. That AND the tale came from German, Hamelin.
(Edit III: Ty to eggchjf who clarified that Jordan is supposed to be chicken scratch!)
Yes I will keep editing this post, lets see how many edits it'll get as I'm being told information I either didn't notice or forgot! (In all seriousness, its really helpful, so if there's anything else I missed or forgot, please tell me!)