P and the "wake up" whisper
--- Lies of P Base game spoilers ---
I don’t know if you all paid full attention to the scene right after P defeats the Mad Donkey (I know I didn’t for sure).
But there is a voice telling him to wake up.
Right as the stalker is lifeless on the floor and Geppetto is coming down of the carriage P muffles all the sound around him. He just watches the blood on his hands, human blood, as he is trying to figure out what he has just done.
Sure, he has fought against puppets before, and of course no one has told him killing humans is something he mustn’t do. But he still feels different, even wrong. Even if he is a puppet and he in theory does not distinguishes morality or wrong from right, something inside is telling him killing should not always be the answer.
We can also hear a heart beating. We know that P hearts starts pounding ‘officially’ after we gain the maximum level of humanity and at the start of the game he barely has his springs reacting. But I don’t think this means his heart was not able to pound.
This was merely reflective of the fact that P himself could recognize or feel his own humanity. Things were happening with his body but he was unsure what it was; barely having connection to his feelings.
But this event shocked his heart so much that he actually heard it pounding, deafening him to every other external sound around him.
He was trying to make sense of what the sensation inside his ergo was and why he was reacting a certain way. And just before Geppetto breaks P out of this trance we can hear the “Wake up” being whispered to P.
It is coming from a male voice, and while I can’t seem to find any confirmation about who or what this voice was, my hypothesis is that this voice belongs to Carlo.
Carlo begging him to wake up. To free himself from the puppet strings. To don’t let himself be fooled by Geppetto. Because this killing happened because of Geppetto. And of course later in game we face other humans, but most of them we fight just because they are on their way to get us first, but we kill the Mad Donkey because we “had” to protect Geppetto.
Yes, at the end he attacks us because he recognizes P as a puppet, but again, this was all because we were tasked with P’s father safety.
So I think that even if Carlo loved Geppetto, he knew what he did. To him, to Romeo and Lea and was pleading P desperately to wake up, to pay attention, to become self aware and take his own decisions.
And with this I think it would also make sense for me to confirm my theory that somehow Carlo had always been there in a way. His ego is not awoken of course (and probably will never do), but his the ergo is pretty much listening and reacting.
I feel he really wants to prevent himself/P from getting back his memories and relieving the painful stuff, and instead wants P to start on a blank canvas, living his own life, making his own choices, being his own person.
But this first human kill was so intense that he had to somehow intervene in a way, begging P to wake up, and who know, maybe this was the very initial step for P to start gaining humanity, aside from lying on the hotel door.
This moment when he took a human life, is what got his heart experiencing disgust and maybe pain or grief of his own self and what impulsed him to try to experience things his own way and figure out how to be his own person.
But take this with a grain of salt, maybe I’m overreaching with this theory :p
Anyways, I’ve passed the game 4 times and I never noticed this before! If it was not because @cinnapiss made it apparent for me, this detail would have been lost to me!
(If you wanna see the exact moment you can go to this video: https://youtu.be/Mz1fXYJV2XQ?si=VLBxu-HMvZppVje4&t=1359 it is better if you watch it with headphones!)
