History WMG / DeadlyPremonition

[[WMG:Forrest Kaysen is [[spoiler:related to, or might even be the same species as [=Pennywise/=]{{IT}}]]]]

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[[WMG: The wall-crawling female enemies are all [[spoiler: Kaysen's]] previous victims.]]

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[[WMG: [[Red seeds grow into red trees if planted into someone the planter loves.]]

[[WMG: [[Polly Oliver is the killer]]]]

* The little girl is [[spoiler: the granddaughter of Zach]], and the storyteller is [[spoiler: Zach himself.]] She treats her teddy bear (as seen in the trailer) as an imaginary friend [[spoiler: along the lines of York]], which prompts him to tell her the story. This one's quite common.

* The "new character" spoken of isn't the little girl, but the "grandfather" telling her the story. [[spoiler: The little girl is a young Emily, who actually had an imaginary friend/guardian from the Woods of the Goddesses of her own as a child, because the Woods knew she would become a Goddess someday. Her prescient imaginary friend then told her the story of what would happen to her in the future as a way of preparing her for her fate. It'd be just as MindScrew-y as it sounds.

SWERY has said in interviews the original Rainy Woods did not have combat being a straight up investigation game which is why the no one else seems to notice the Shadows coming out after midnight etc. It seemed to me, however that [[they were the spirits of the victims of Kaysen's purple gas conscripted to fight against the one Human who could truly stop Kaysen. York and Zach working from both their prospective worlds. York doesn't tell anyone about the Shadows because he knows what they as he exists on their level. While Zach has been wandering Greenvale investigating the murders, York has been defending the town against the encroachment of the Red World's forces. When you die during the combat levels, only York would die while Zach would continue on. But without York's guidance(i.e. connection to other worlds, including ours that allow us to play the game) Zach would ultimately be crushed by George or Kaysen.]]

[[spoiler:An [[Anime/BlackRockShooter Otherself.]]

[[spoiler: --> ''"A doll, shaped like a fat man. It has a plate on it which reads 'Washington state'."'']]

[[WMG: Possible explanation for the fat men dolls on the map in the Red Room]]
[[spoiler:The map in question is one of the observable objects in the Red Room in the Prologue chapter. It's a map of the United States with little upside-down peace symbols (The Mark of The Red Tree) stuck into it across various states. There's also a bunch of Kaysen dolls placed on the map, each wearing different clothing; although one of them is wearing the yellow plaid and overalls the player encounters him in later. Observing the map yields the following text:

--> ''"A doll, shaped like a fat man. It has a plate on it which reads 'Washington state'."''

This probably refers to the fact that the Kaysen doll in overalls is standing on Washington state, which it's safe to assume is where Greenvale is located. But what does it all mean? The inverted peace symbols could either refer to A) the sites of the Red Seed Murders, which York has been assigned to investigate (photos of which appear on his laptop during his drive into Greenvale), or B) the locations of the victims of Kaysen's tree-growing method. I'm inclined to believe that the peace symbols mark the locations of the copycat murders that Kaysen has been influencing, like George, and the Kaysen dolls mark the spots where someone's energy has been stolen by the tree growing out of their stomach- a process that would require an "agent" of the Red Tree.

As for the dolls themselves, they might all be Kaysen, or it could be that the Red Tree agents all happen to look like fat men. It makes sense that Kaysen would be assigned a whole country to himself, though, which is why he adopts the guise of a travelling salesman.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Kaysen Is just a [[Mook}}, and the worst has yet to come.]]
[[spoiler:This is something that I came up with after reading an interview with SWERY. When he was asked what Kaysen really was, his response was "An Agent of the Red Tree, Nothing more", he also mentioned that he wasn't the only one and that there are other agents with other similar jobs. This could mean that Kaysen is really just a minor agent of sorts (he did say he was a Messenger) and that the other agents (whom ever they may be) are of higher level. They could also have their own handlers (like Willie was with Kaysen) who relay orders to them from the Red World that they come from.

* [[spoiler: This is actually true and is hinted many times. Talking to the female owner of the Milk Barn will get Zach to say that York is together with Emily, with her replying that she doesn't know who York is. In the beggining of the game, George says that he has become the talk of the town due to his scar. York doesn't understand, as he scar is small. Zach's scar is very large though.]]

* [[spoiler: This is actually true. Talking to the female owner of the Milk Barn will get Zach to say that York is together with Emily, with her replying that she doesn't know who York is.]]