History Fridge / WeHappyFew

* You can see other Wellies wearing the same design of suit as Arthur. this makes perfect sense and fits in with his whole playstyle of being unremarkable and blending in with everyone else.

* At its very core the base concept of the game is terrifying. Being yourself yet losing just enough of your memories to forget the things that are most important to you, or even worse, forgetting that you did something unimaginably horrible only to remember it right as you're trying to get your life back together.

* Cutscenes involving Arthur and Sally interacting are very different, depending on which character you're playing as at that moment. However, Arthur has quit Joy only recently, and the drug is still affecting him - as evidenced by how he doesn't remember critical details about Percy. It's entirely possible that his cutscenes have been "edulcorated" by the residual Joy in his system. The fact that Sally tells him [[spoiler: about Gwen]] in her story, yet nothing like that happens in his has been specifically described as Joy messing with his memory according to WordOfGod.

** It's also a way to exorcise the Very Bad Thing [[spoiler: which was caused by following the orders of someone who didn't have as much power as it seems. A game where they lose if they disobey is like trying to convince themselves they did the right thing.]]

* When Arthur confronts Sally about sleeping with his father, she replies that she couldn't say "No" to him. Keep in mind that Arthur's father took Sally in after [[spoiler: her mother killed her whole family in a suicide pact]] when Sally was in her early teens until she was sixteen. Given her reaction, it's likely that Arthur's father either guilt tripped her or she felt like she had no choice but to sleep with him after he took her in. So basically Arthur is blaming the victim of statutory rape, and even worse, Sally blames herself.

* At its very core the base concept of the game is terrifying. Being yourself yet losing just enough of your memories to forget the things that are most important to you or even worse [[spoiler:forgetting that you did something unimaginably horrible only to remember it right as you're trying to get your life back together.]]

** You can see other Wellies wearing the same design of suit as Arthur. this makes perfect sense and fits in with his whole playstyle of being unremarkable and blending in with everyone else.

** How many of those violent situations are [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness simply due to our characters' withdrawal symptoms]]?

** In addition to that, light exposure usually causes someone's pupils to shrink. Sunshine makes you look like you're on Joy by making your pupils tiny.
* At the end of his story, Arthur is given a LastSecondEndingChoice: take a Joy pill and return to Wellington Wells as a Wellie, or refuse the pill and escape the town. His story is also the only one where you're given this final choice. This makes sense if you consider each character's motivations for leaving the city: Sally because her daughter Gwen is at risk as long as she stays there, and Ollie because after broadcasting Uncle Jack's "final episode", he's wanted by the entire town. Arthur, by contrast, has little motivation for leaving (because Percy is most probably dead) and plenty for staying and forgetting (specifically, forgetting that he was responsible for Percy's deportation and probable's death).

* Sally's reason for becoming a Downer is that she's the last woman in Wellington Wells to have a child. Seeing a pregnant person or a baby [[TraumaButton triggers the Wellies]] [[BerserkButton to the point of]] [[WouldHurtAChild homicidal madness]].

** It's worth mentioning that while Victoria is unconscious near the ending of We All Fall Down, Uncle Jack's last broadcast can be heard. Perhaps a more likely explanation is that the Joy being cut off was roughly concurrent with Ollie broadcasting?

** Although as the game goes the explanation for bad batch of Joy seems to be simpler: it's not the flavor the issue it's that Haworth Laboratories Joy production line is a mess and Verloc is tampering with new formulas of Joy all the time. Sally's blackberry Joy aren't working better because of the flavor it's because she keeps her lab clean and follow the same recipe instead of running a place half on fire releasing toxic fumes.

* Cutscenes involving Arthur and Sally interacting are very different, depending on which character you're playing as at that moment. However, Arthur has quitted Joy only recently, and the drug is still affecting him - as evidenced by how he doesn't remember critical details about Percy. It's entirely possible that his cutscenes have been "edulcorated" by the residual Joy in his system. The fact that Sally tells him [[spoiler: about Gwen]] in her story, yet nothing like that happens in his has been specifically described as Joy messing with his memory according to WordOfGod.

** The final DLC shows quite explicitly that violent outbursts are a major symptom of Joy withdrawal,

* The absolute destruction unleashed in We All Fall Down doesn't make sense at first glance. While Victoria's actions are destructive, cutting off drugs to the one island would be easily remedied by simply having bobbies distributing pills from baskets. Even the destruction of the lab wouldn't do anything about the huge volume of Joy in circulation which could be rationed to slowly bring everyone down off their highs. Then, you can recall that the executive committee is stoned out of their minds, and the protagonists have disabled every partially sane authority figure. The fact that tension and withdrawal is already high from the Uncle Jack video mere days before and the plague breaking into sections of the city.

** The final DLC shows quite explicitly that violence outbursts are a major symptom of Joy withdrawal,
** It's consistent throughout the game that vivid hallucinations are a symptom of Joy usage. Arthur, Ollie, and Victoria all experience hallucinations, with Arthur's interpretation of events being skewed and the latter two viewing full imaginary people. Almost none of the Lightbearer DLC actually happened, and did happen was probably completely different than what was shown on screen.

** It's consistent throughout the game that vivid hallucinations are a symptom of Joy usage. Arthur, Ollie, and Victoria all experience hallucinations, with Arthur's interpretation of events being skewed and the latter two viewing full imaginary people.