About the reset...
I just got home from work and have no idea what's going on, but reading up on what happened after I left (I saw the reset, but the game was frozen, so I didn't see our choosing of the second host) I had a weird idea come up.
If most people say that Quip actually died in the bridge fall, his Rowlet found along side him by Hau, then what if the first attempt is just Devon/Derick image of the story? Like he heard from someone before they moved there how "ooooeeeooo you know that house is haunted right? The family that lived there before had a kid about your age but he died in like some freak accident."
Of course, Devon/Derick -snort-, or Derick Devon. Totally related to the Stone family -shot- doesn't really want to move in the first place but this seriously isn't helping. So he heard the story about this kid just like him but he didn't know the kid so all he can think of is equating all of the people in the story to the people he knows in real life. The grieving mother being just like his own, Kukui hasn't aged since the incident because Derick / Devon wouldn't have known him any other way, ect. For all we know the kid had gone out on bridge to visit the Tapu or to save his bird, and people let the place fall into disrepair because they thought Quip's death had been a bad omen and no one wanted to risk more tragedy.
And along the way as Derick / Devon is slowly, nervously following the guide of the voices, all he can imagine is "I bet this is EXACTLY what happened to that kid" and so Quip's brief journey played out in his mind scene for scene as he was going through it himself. Just knowing that as he stepped out onto that bridge his heart pounding to think he could fall through at any second when THE ABSOLUTE WORST HAPPENED and it collapsed all together. But... Tapu Koko saved him. If only... if only it could have been there for Quip...
Still, meeting Hau it's really nice to see that Rowlet has been well taken care of since losing his trainer, and it's also nice to have another boy his age to travel with. So bright and easy going, but there's something Derick / Devon can't quite place that seems odd about him. He knows he has the Voices to drive him whether he's ready to leave or not, but even as his new best friend claims to just want to go for the sake of travel, Derick / Devon can't shake the feeling that there's something... or someone... that's driving him too.
