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[[WMG: Mike is not crazy]]

The Ancients knew that all librarians were helpful to Mike, and thus ordered Rita killed since she was a librarian.

So, why did Mike blank out and have LaserGuidedAmnesia? Either this is a side-effect of formerly having the embryo in his head, or Jack simply knocked him out before killing Rita.

[[WMG: Jack grew from the embryo]]

Because the embryo was planted in Mike, it has a special connection to him. It is possible that the pills that were supposed to destroy the embryo instead merely banished it, and it was able to grow afterwards.

[[WMG: Mike is crazy ''and'' the Dark World, Behemoth, Jack, etc. are real]]

The Keeper really was the Shapeshifter all along, and Mike was only hallucinating that she had a connection with the librarian. In reality, Mike has always been evil and therefore his dark world counterpart will be likewise.

Alternatively, because Mike has multiple personality disorder, he may have ''multiple'' dark world selves, of which Jack is one.

Alternatively alternatively, Mike does have multiple personalities, which is why his Dark World counterpart is the Shapeshifter, who has multiple ''appearances''.
* Alternately: The Dark World is real, Jack is the shapeshifter and Mike is as good a guy as he can be, but he's still crazy. The events of the first game damaged his mind.

[[WMG: Everything after the first meeting with the therapist in the second game is a dream]]

Except maybe for Mike Dawson's fate. I mean, many of the events of the late game seem unrealistic. The strong man actually ''liking'' Mike? That's a big clue right there.
* He ''does'' wake up in the therapist's office at the end.

[[WMG: Mike didn't kill Rita ''but'' the Dark World, Behemoth, etc. are not real]]

Jack is just a guy who is ''really'' good at sneaking.

[[WMG: Mike in ''Dark Seed II'' is a white aged-up [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari.]]]]

Hated by nearly everybody? Check. Has only one friend [[spoiler:that turns out not to be]]? Check. Poor relationship with parental figure? Check. Whiny, annoying, and wimpy? Check. Both protagonists in a piece of MindScrew? Check. He's pretty much Shinji as a white guy.

[[WMG: Mike Dawson is the player character from ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]''.]]

After the events of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike wanted to become a detective. He couldn't, because everyone in the town was either dead or hated him. So, he faked his death and fled to Canada under an assumed name (which we never learn) to become one. It would explain why the protagonist in that game appears to exhibit Dawson-like competence and charisma, and why (s)he wastes time instead of focusing on the matter at hand.

Perhaps as a way to warn everyone about the Ancients and the danger they presented. The sharp drop in competence between games was the result of Mike trying too hard to avoid making his author avatar an obnoxious Gary Stu (or perhaps to demonstrate how not to deal with the Ancients).

[[WMG: Everything about Dark Seed II was a TakeThat to the real Mike Dawson.]]

Judging from slowbeef's comments in his LP of Dark Seed II, the real Mike Dawson doesn't want to talk about his time at Cyberdreams. It's highly possible that he burned some bridges on the way out of that job. As a consequence, the team decided, out of spite, to make the sequel in such a way as to make Mike Dawson (the character) as unlikeable as possible as a giant TakeThat to the real man. They intentionally hired a replacement actor who looked rather wimpish and uncool, and had him talk in a nasally lisp and wear very 80s clothes to further emphasize his loser qualitie. His entire story made it seem less like "oh he's insane" and more like "oh he's a paranoid loser." All of this to make it clear they hated him. To pour further salt on wounds, this game would come a month after the release of the company's VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream, which many see as a far superior game.

Perhaps as a way to warn everyone about the Ancients and the danger they presented. The sharp drop in competence between games was the result of Mike trying too hard to avoid making his author avatar an obnoxious Gary Stu (or perhaps to demonstrate how not to deal with the Ancients).

Mike is mentioned as being a writer. It's possible that he wrote about his experience in the first game, but took a few liberties to make himself look better. That's why his characterization is so radically different in the second game. Mike actually ''is'' the whiny ManChild he is depicted as in the sequel, but of course he wouldn't see himself that way so he changes some things and whitewashes his behavior. The first game shows what happened from Mike's point of view, while the second game shows events from an outsider's point of view.

[[WMG: Mike in Darkseed 2 is a white aged-up [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari.]]]]

After the events of ''Dark Seed II'', Mike wanted to become a detective. He couldn't, because everyone in the town was either dead or hated him. So, he faked his death and fled to Canada under an assumed name (which we never learn) to become one. It would explain why the protagonist in that game appears to exhibit Dawson-like competence and charisma, and why (s)he wastes time instead of focusing on the matter at hand.

[[WMG: Mike Dawson is the player character from VideoGame/{{Ambition}}]]

[[WMG: Mike Dawson is the player character from {{Ambition}}]]

Hated by nearly everybody? Check. Has only one friend [[spoiler:that turns out not to be]]? Check. Poor relationship with parental figure? Check. Whiny, annoying, and wimpy? Check. Both protagonists in a piece of MindScrew? Check. He's pretty much Shinji as a white guy.

Alternatively alternatively, Mike does have multiple personalities, which is why his Dark World counterpart is the Shapeshifter, who has multiple ''appearances''.

[[WMG: Mike in Darkseed 2 is a white aged-up [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari.]]]]

* He ''does'' wake up in the therapist's office.

Depending on how well the player does, he's very likely to still have a few "extra lives" at the end. Surely he can redeem them in whatever our world's afterlife is like, too...

While Mike extracted the embryo, its insertion still left permanent brain damage. That, combined with the massive trauma of the events of the first game would be an excellent recipe for crazy. This also explains the huge shift in characterization between games.

Jack is just a guy who is ''really'' good at sneaking.

[WMG: Mike didn't kill Rita ''but'' the Dark World, Behemoth, etc. are not real]]

Except maybe for Mike Dawson's fate. I mean, many of the events of the late game seem unrealistic. The strong man actually ''liking'' Mike? That's a big clue right there.

The Ancients knew that all librarians were helpful to Mike, and thus killed Rita since she was a librarian.

Alternatively, because Mike has multiple personality disorder, he may have ''multiple'' dark world selves, of which Jack is one.

This requires an explanation of why Jack would continue to talk about the Ancients after Mike has perished. Well, dying from stabbing can actually take a while depending on where the stabbing happens, so Mike may simply be having a DyingDream of Jack saying those things and riding off.