#void worms

[bewilderbark]

day 1 - rivulet

i find all the paralells between rivulet and hunter, moon and pebbles, and the ocean and the void sea to be very interesting. plus an excuse to draw hunter ! version without the iterators and cats below

[iteratorsex]

(WATCHER) Unfortunate Evolution is Present-Day Pebbles. And Pebbles is Fine.

And I have proof!

VERY HEAVY WATCHER SPOILERS AHEAD.

Hi I know I said I would only start posting theories on friday, but I actually cannot keep this in any longer.

A lot of people's initial reactions to seeing UE and the Rot Worm was thinking that this was FP in the future, and that he became the worm

But I have GREAT proof as to why this isn't true, and why Unfortunate Evolution is actually a cerebral realm within the FP region, almost like a peek into his mindspace

(Behind a readmore so I don't jumpscare people with spoiler screenshots)

You've clicked on this? Well now you should know that-

THERE ARE ALSO SPOILERS FOR THE THRONE AHEAD

Anyways, spoiler warnings aside.

1.The background is not at all real

The background of UE is a fractal-like grid of cubes of what looks to be something organic. Like a framework. It looks like neurons, or a mycelium reaching into the infinite darkness. Not at all indicative of a real world.

These extremely rotted regions are on the fringes of reality and are unstable, being more a underbelly dream realm version of the world.

OAOA even says so themselves, Its too far. After a certain point, its all like this.

As well as this, attempting to warp out of ANY regions with sentient rot in it (the purple rot) which includes the Fucked Up And Evil Vanilla Regions and UE returns the message: "This fringe is already too unstable"

We also know that there are multiple strands a creature's cycle can follow simultaneously, as it explores all possible options before settling on one perceived possibility. From an outsider's POV anyways. To you, you're the particle exploring every possibility in a dream realm, before the "box is opened" and a single outcome occurs. Much like quantum physics, actually!

These are strands on the absolute fringes of the Rug of Reality (As I like to refer to it, because Drainage Pearl), being dissolved into a sea of lumps and nothingness as entropy decays it, whilst the idealized version of these regions still exists and is currently the Chosen Path.

(Actually in a way, this is why I do not believe Watcher's takes place in the material world. They are already stuck near the fringes of reality, one where OAOA is exploring, and which all the other echoes avoid. That is for a different post.)

So Unfortunate Evolution is not a strand perceivable from the material world, then what is it? Why is it current Pebbles and not a future one?

Well, if you take a look at the map of the place, its ONLY Unfortunate Development, except UE has even less rooms, so it might even be a past Pebbs!

Even with all that, the Rot Worm could NEVER be Five Pebbles, nor could it be a rotted Void Worm. It's its own thing.

Iterator puppets, Voidspawn, and Void Worms all have the neuron glow. Even PRINCE has it!

The rot worm does not.

And I checked!

Rotworm has no light. The other 3 (In the order I mentioned) Do

(Glowloop is a sound, by the way)

So this is a realm on the unstable fringes of reality, only filled with the rotted parts of Five Pebbles, who's only inhabitant is a single, unenlightened worm.

I think Pebbles is haunted. UE is his cerebral realm, almost like a nightmare caused by the rot. And though his rot isn't sentient, as its blue and doesn't have the same spores (he got the knockoff version. I will elaborate more in a different post, again. Lot to talk about here), some entity out there KNOWS he has the rot, and is thus lurking within the background realms of his realities as a result.

[rain-world-headcanons]

Void worms are purposed organisms designed to help the ascending process. Leviathans are a prototype version of them. In general I get the vibe that the karma and ascension thing is more-or-less entirely a construct devised by the Ancients, and that this way of thinking essentially doomed themselves.

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[rain-world-headcanons]

there was originally one void worm that called others to the void as a way of reproduction-- the ascended beings become new void worms

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