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** Considering, the hospital imagery, the presence of a doctor and nurse, and the things that chases Rust being called "Fetuses", if she was a prostitute, it could be implied that she's sick and possibly dying because of damage caused by a back alley abortion.

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** Considering, the hospital imagery, the presence of a doctor and nurse, and the things that chases Rust being called "Fetuses", if she was a prostitute, it could be implied that she's sick and possibly dying because of damage caused by a back alley abortion.abortion.

[[WMG: "Rust" is a plant disease that transmitted to humans.]]
There is a real life fungal disease called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) Rust]] that affects plants. Maybe in the game, the disease transmitted to humans somehow, infecting Sabitsuki and other children. It would make plants the source of the disease rather than an experimental treatment method (as other theories suggest), and also explains both the dark tone of plant areas and the link to hospital areas. Notably, Japanese Wikipedia uses the term サビキン目 (Sabikin moku), with the first two symbols read as "Sabi".
* The Sabitsuki ending stroll is often interpreted as a walk through her life, with game elements in the background representing events of her life. Within it, a flower girl NPC appears pretty early on, right before dying children, the doctor and the nurse. If we assume it to be chronological, it would mean the plants preceding the disease, further implying them being the cause.
* Funnily enough, rust disease can also cause a plant deformity called "witch's broom", which could be linked to the literal witch's broom effect. But that's probably a coincidence, considering the Japanese name of the phenomenon (てんぐ巣病) is completely different from the effect name (ほうき).
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Dewicking NotSoDifferent per TRS


* The game frequently implies that Sabitsuki and the Kaibutsu are [[NotSoDifferent similar]]; both have white hair, the Kaibutsu wear Sabi's uniform, Sabi can be seen with a SlasherSmile at several points, and the Kaibutsu laugh is heard multiple times outside of actually interacting with Kaibutsu. The symptoms of zombie infection apparently include [[DiseaseBleach white hair]], BloodFromTheMouth and [[TheHyena laughing at inappropriate moments]], as well as being infected through bites (explaining all the mouth imagery). The Corrupted School event could be indicative of her classmates turning. However, the reason why the younger Sabitsuki also has white hair has yet to be explained.

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* The game frequently implies that Sabitsuki and the Kaibutsu are [[NotSoDifferent similar]]; similar; both have white hair, the Kaibutsu wear Sabi's uniform, Sabi can be seen with a SlasherSmile at several points, and the Kaibutsu laugh is heard multiple times outside of actually interacting with Kaibutsu. The symptoms of zombie infection apparently include [[DiseaseBleach white hair]], BloodFromTheMouth and [[TheHyena laughing at inappropriate moments]], as well as being infected through bites (explaining all the mouth imagery). The Corrupted School event could be indicative of her classmates turning. However, the reason why the younger Sabitsuki also has white hair has yet to be explained.

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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on the picture.
Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in a state of ShouldersupNudity.
** Considering, the hospital imagery and the presence of a doctor and nurse, if she was a prostitute, it could be implied that she's sick and possibly dying because of damage caused by a back alley abortion.

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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround background picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on the picture.
picture. Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in a state of ShouldersupNudity.
** Considering, the hospital imagery and imagery, the presence of a doctor and nurse, and the things that chases Rust being called "Fetuses", if she was a prostitute, it could be implied that she's sick and possibly dying because of damage caused by a back alley abortion.
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Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in a state of ShouldersupNudity.

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Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in a state of ShouldersupNudity.ShouldersupNudity.
**Considering, the hospital imagery and the presence of a doctor and nurse, if she was a prostitute, it could be implied that she's sick and possibly dying because of damage caused by a back alley abortion.
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Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in state of ShouldersupNudity.

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Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in a state of ShouldersupNudity.
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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on The picture.

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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on The the picture.
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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on it (The picture).

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Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on it (The picture).The picture.
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The gas mask Cleaner at the end is an uninfected human, who kills Sabitsuki fearing that she will attack her. The True Ending is Sabitsuki's dying dream, as Rust and shock combine to make her increasingly delusional before the end.

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The gas mask Cleaner at the end is an uninfected human, who kills Sabitsuki fearing that she will attack her. The True Ending is Sabitsuki's dying dream, as Rust and shock combine to make her increasingly delusional before the end.end.

[[WMG:Sabitsuki is a prostitute.]]

Flesh Walls World is a literal WombLevel representing the psychological torment of her job, instead of her immune system. Consider that you enter it through a hole in backround picture that appears to scream in pain, with something groping on it (The picture).
Also, in Sweet Sugar there is a mirror, that will show a picture of Sabitsuki in state of ShouldersupNudity.
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Seeing as a little Sabitsuki can be found in the hospital area could be because maybe Sabitsuki was born addicted.

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Seeing as a little Sabitsuki can be found in the hospital area could be because maybe Sabitsuki was born addicted.addicted.

[[WMG:''.flow'' is set AfterTheEnd.]]

A severe disease of alien origin called Rust has racked the planet and its effects are, to put it lightly, horrific. The overwhelming majority of the human population are infected, including Sabitsuki.

The effects of infection include a slow descent into insanity, followed by the development of palid features and a hemorrhagic fever. The Kaibutsu are victims of a full-fledged infection. Some become violent, while most are passive. Eventually, all become violent and turn into the Red Demons.

Sabitsuki is still in the early stages, progressing further when she becomes the character called Rust. Much of the gameplay is centered around her memories of trying to survive in her city during the spread of the infection, which she is writing on her computer to preserve for posterity. These are distorted by the virus, but include being chased by the infected, finding cultists in a high school who were trying to escape the fever induced hallucinations by gouging out their eyes, and a dim memory of being kicked out of her house after attempting to visit her mother and younger brother due to her obvious infection. The mirror image of herself as a partial Red Demon is her awareness of her future state.

The gas mask Cleaner at the end is an uninfected human, who kills Sabitsuki fearing that she will attack her. The True Ending is Sabitsuki's dying dream, as Rust and shock combine to make her increasingly delusional before the end.
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It's called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis necrotizing fasciitis]] and is NOT pretty.

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It's called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis necrotizing fasciitis]] and is NOT pretty.
pretty. Symptoms include fever (dreams) and tissue "rusting" away, to the point where amputation might be necessary. Sounds very familiar, doesn't it?
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[[WMG: Sabitsuki is is/was a [[JapaneseDelinquents Sukeban]].]]
Being a highschool girl who has no qualms of beating people with a blunt object, she fits this role to a T.

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[[WMG: Sabitsuki is is/was a [[JapaneseDelinquents Sukeban]].and Smile are JapaneseDelinquents.]]
Being a highschool girl kids sporting a rather unorthodox fashion-/hair style and who has seem to have no qualms of beating people with a blunt object, she fits weapons, they fit this role to a T.
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[[WMG: "Rust" is based on a real disease.]]
It's called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis necrotizing fasciitis]] and is NOT pretty.


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[[WMG: Sabitsuki thinks that GunsAreWorthless.]]
While she kills with an improvised melee weapon, she uses a pistol only to scare others by FiringInTheAirALot.

[[WMG: Sabitsuki is is/was a [[JapaneseDelinquents Sukeban]].]]
Being a highschool girl who has no qualms of beating people with a blunt object, she fits this role to a T.
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** Revision: It's an obvious ShoutOut to KikisDeliveryService.

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** Revision: It's an obvious ShoutOut to KikisDeliveryService.''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''.



* Many of the items allude to this. For example, the Viscera could be a point where she saw someone literally being ripped apart by the Kaibutsu. The corpse is what the Kaibutsu literally are; walking corpses. Tumbling doll and the machine could indicate that she was bitten on a limb, and amputation was considered to prevent her infection from spreading. The dress could indicate mourning, the ghost is what she wishes she would turn into instead, and the arm is a distortion of a dead body that she once saw (either that, or as noted in a previous WMG she simply likes ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' due to its ShoutOut nature). Mono Eye could be another distortion of an event involving Kaibutsu that she firsthand witnessed. Many of the other effects, though, simply allude to her background or things she liked before being infected; for example, the hood and the gun are memories of her being a {{Delinquent}}/growing up in a bad neighborhood, while the plant suggests she liked gardens, the cat, alongside the game and pillow, reveals she was a "cat person", the broom might suggest that she liked ''KikisDeliveryService'' as a child, her headphones being in the dreams/hallucinations due to Sabi enjoying music, and so on.

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* Many of the items allude to this. For example, the Viscera could be a point where she saw someone literally being ripped apart by the Kaibutsu. The corpse is what the Kaibutsu literally are; walking corpses. Tumbling doll and the machine could indicate that she was bitten on a limb, and amputation was considered to prevent her infection from spreading. The dress could indicate mourning, the ghost is what she wishes she would turn into instead, and the arm is a distortion of a dead body that she once saw (either that, or as noted in a previous WMG she simply likes ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' due to its ShoutOut nature). Mono Eye could be another distortion of an event involving Kaibutsu that she firsthand witnessed. Many of the other effects, though, simply allude to her background or things she liked before being infected; for example, the hood and the gun are memories of her being a {{Delinquent}}/growing up in a bad neighborhood, while the plant suggests she liked gardens, the cat, alongside the game and pillow, reveals she was a "cat person", the broom might suggest that she liked ''KikisDeliveryService'' ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' as a child, her headphones being in the dreams/hallucinations due to Sabi enjoying music, and so on.
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cuz i wanted to


Smile was never an independent entity, and simply exists as a mirror to Sabitsuki/Rust's condition. Smile's sister could be a reflection of Oreko, with a connection between Oreko's disappearance when you play as Rust and the sister's absence when Sabitsuki or Rust investigate the school. Their only purpose in the game is to personify the sense of self-destruction that this game seems to depict.

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Smile was never an independent entity, and simply exists as a mirror to Sabitsuki/Rust's condition. Smile's sister could be a reflection of Oreko, with a connection between Oreko's disappearance when you play as Rust and the sister's absence when Sabitsuki or Rust investigate the school. Their only purpose in the game is to personify the sense of self-destruction that this game seems to depict.depict.

[[WMG: Sabitsuki was a drug addict]]
During her time in school she was introduced to a new kind of drug called "Rust", most probably by her boyfriend "Smile". To impress him she tried it, and the drug had collateral effects on her, such as making her hair lose color, cough blood and affect her mind causing her to be more hostile toward people. That would explain why the students in the school area avoid her when she is holding the iron pipe. At some point she was forced into a asylum, where she wasnt treated very well and later managed to flee. The black hood and gun effects you can get there indicates that she got them right after she escaped to hide and protect herself. The corpse effect and the fact you can get money from killing npcs shows that Sabitsuki killed some people to rob them and pay for her drugs. Drugs those that she was now buying from the suspicious Sugar Hole bar, where kaibutsu like Sabitsuki are allowed to lurk around. The maids are there to serve customers, and the reason why they wear gas mask is because the Rust drug can be inhaled. The painting in the back room takes you to a place full of kaibutsus and smoke rusty pipes.
The maid that comes after Sabitsuki in the ending is most probably there to collect a unpaid debt.
Seeing as a little Sabitsuki can be found in the hospital area could be because maybe Sabitsuki was born addicted.
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* Decaying Art Gallery: The decaying art gallery is an area which, similarly to the sewers of YumeNikki, has windows that allow the player to see unsettling, scrawled images. One of these images looks surprisingly close to the background of the Red Body world, so perhaps that particularly disturbing image, along with all the others in the art gallery, was drawn by Sabitsuki as she began to go insane.

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* Decaying Art Gallery: The decaying art gallery is an area which, similarly to the sewers of YumeNikki, ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', has windows that allow the player to see unsettling, scrawled images. One of these images looks surprisingly close to the background of the Red Body world, so perhaps that particularly disturbing image, along with all the others in the art gallery, was drawn by Sabitsuki as she began to go insane.



* Many of the items allude to this. For example, the Viscera could be a point where she saw someone literally being ripped apart by the Kaibutsu. The corpse is what the Kaibutsu literally are; walking corpses. Tumbling doll and the machine could indicate that she was bitten on a limb, and amputation was considered to prevent her infection from spreading. The dress could indicate mourning, the ghost is what she wishes she would turn into instead, and the arm is a distortion of a dead body that she once saw (either that, or as noted in a previous WMG she simply likes YumeNikki due to its ShoutOut nature). Mono Eye could be another distortion of an event involving Kaibutsu that she firsthand witnessed. Many of the other effects, though, simply allude to her background or things she liked before being infected; for example, the hood and the gun are memories of her being a {{Delinquent}}/growing up in a bad neighborhood, while the plant suggests she liked gardens, the cat, alongside the game and pillow, reveals she was a "cat person", the broom might suggest that she liked ''KikisDeliveryService'' as a child, her headphones being in the dreams/hallucinations due to Sabi enjoying music, and so on.

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* Many of the items allude to this. For example, the Viscera could be a point where she saw someone literally being ripped apart by the Kaibutsu. The corpse is what the Kaibutsu literally are; walking corpses. Tumbling doll and the machine could indicate that she was bitten on a limb, and amputation was considered to prevent her infection from spreading. The dress could indicate mourning, the ghost is what she wishes she would turn into instead, and the arm is a distortion of a dead body that she once saw (either that, or as noted in a previous WMG she simply likes YumeNikki ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' due to its ShoutOut nature). Mono Eye could be another distortion of an event involving Kaibutsu that she firsthand witnessed. Many of the other effects, though, simply allude to her background or things she liked before being infected; for example, the hood and the gun are memories of her being a {{Delinquent}}/growing up in a bad neighborhood, while the plant suggests she liked gardens, the cat, alongside the game and pillow, reveals she was a "cat person", the broom might suggest that she liked ''KikisDeliveryService'' as a child, her headphones being in the dreams/hallucinations due to Sabi enjoying music, and so on.
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So Sabitsuki isn't really sick, just really scared and confused at the concept of becoming a woman.

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So Sabitsuki isn't really sick, just really scared and confused at the concept of becoming a woman.woman.

[[WMG: Smile is to Sabitsuki what Rust is to Smile.]]
Or, in more clear terms, when you're playing as Sabitsuki, Smile represents Rust, who kills Sabi at the end of several chaser-infested corridors (the Rust Corridor for rust, the corrupted school for Smile). ''However'', when you play as Rust, Smile takes on the role of a "victim" (like demon Sabitsuki from the Rust Corridor). As Rust, in either event you are chased by red demons down a set of hallways until you reach a final room, where you kill the current occupant (who, if this theory holds any ground, is ''you'').

Smile was never an independent entity, and simply exists as a mirror to Sabitsuki/Rust's condition. Smile's sister could be a reflection of Oreko, with a connection between Oreko's disappearance when you play as Rust and the sister's absence when Sabitsuki or Rust investigate the school. Their only purpose in the game is to personify the sense of self-destruction that this game seems to depict.
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* The maid costume is a disguise, so is the gas mask. Her true form is Viscera, [[spoiler: the woman from the melting girls event, and a door is found in one of the suffering children rooms that leads to her during the EndGame]].

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* The maid costume is a disguise, so is the gas mask. Her true form is Viscera, [[spoiler: the woman from the melting girls event, and a door is found in one of the suffering children rooms that leads to her during the EndGame]].
Endgame]].
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[[WMG: Sabitsuki is a cyborg. ]]
Living in the future, after a horrible accident she underwent an UnwillingRoboticisation. Horribly traumatized she retreats back into her room. Through robotic implants she can interface with her computer, entering a trance-like state in which she can escape reality into a dream world.
*Although it looks more like a nightmare so maybe there's a computer virus which slowly effects her brain too like it did to the computer, there's a supernatural entity inside the computer (see WMG underneath this one) or it's her own traumatized mind which corrupts her computer-dream world.
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[[WMG: Sabitsuki isn't actually sick: she's just having her period.]]
More specifically, she's experiencing her very first one, or has a very irregular cycle. Either way, Sabitsuki's not used to menstruation. This manifests in blood everywhere in her dreams and everything messed up in the game, since that's how she envisions the whole concept.

She only ''thinks'' she's sick, but really, she just doesn't know what to do in that situation. The blood in real life could be she's flowing unusually heavy, so it ends up in her room with no way to clean it up.

So Sabitsuki isn't really sick, just really scared and confused at the concept of becoming a woman.
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* Broom: Sabitsuki may have liked to play RPGs set in medieval periods before she lost her games and was only left with Shinsoku Neko, as this is found in the FC world. Perhaps her favorite character was a witch/mage of some sort.

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* Broom: Sabitsuki may have liked to play RPGs {{Role Playing Game}}s set in medieval periods before she lost her games and was only left with Shinsoku Neko, as this is found in the FC world. Perhaps her favorite character was a witch/mage of some sort.



* FC World: Sabitsuki possibly owned more games than just Shinsoku Neko, and perhaps even played Mother 1 and other, more traditional RPGs. If so, it would explain this area, and why both the Witch (typical player type in classic RPGs) and Television (as in, what connects to a games console) effects are found here.

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* FC World: Sabitsuki possibly owned more games than just Shinsoku Neko, and perhaps even played Mother 1 and other, more traditional RPGs. [=RPGs=]. If so, it would explain this area, and why both the Witch (typical player type in classic RPGs) [=RPGs=]) and Television (as in, what connects to a games console) effects are found here.
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[[WMG: .Flow is the DyingDream of an IllGirl]]

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[[WMG: .Flow is the DyingDream of an IllGirl]]a girl with a terminal illness.]]
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'''Major NPCs'''

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** Revision: It's an obvious ShoutOut to KikisDeliveryService.

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