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* If Lauren survives, she had just learned the KnightInSourArmour private eye who she trusted and had fallen for, probably the first person she let herself care about since she lost her family, was the SerialKiller who murdered her baby boy. Even spitting on his gravestone or putting a bullet in his deranged mind wouldn't cure that heartbreak, putting aside the fact that she's still a struggling prostitute.
** In the second scenario, she had just murdered a man in an open street with cars nearby. What's to say that after shooting Scott, she didn't turn the gun on herself?
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Oedipus Complex is a disambiguation


* The Origami killer's actions through the game as Scott Shelby make a little more sense viewed through the lens of an OedipusComplex. We have a man whose brother drowned because of a drunken father refusing to save him. This causes his mother to lose custody of him, and she puts him up for adoption. So, fast forward a few dozen years later, and the Origami Killer starts drowning little boys in rainwater while putting their fathers through hell trying to save them. In addition, Shelby saves the mother of one of his victims from committing suicide, and even steals a kiss from Lauren depending on how the player plays it. So, if we accept that Shelby's victims are like his surrogate drowning brother, then we have a man who is vicariously punishing and likely killing his surrogate father and stealing a kiss from one of his surrogate mothers. So....yeah...

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* The Origami killer's actions through the game as Scott Shelby make a little more sense viewed through the lens of an OedipusComplex.UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex. We have a man whose brother drowned because of a drunken father refusing to save him. This causes his mother to lose custody of him, and she puts him up for adoption. So, fast forward a few dozen years later, and the Origami Killer starts drowning little boys in rainwater while putting their fathers through hell trying to save them. In addition, Shelby saves the mother of one of his victims from committing suicide, and even steals a kiss from Lauren depending on how the player plays it. So, if we accept that Shelby's victims are like his surrogate drowning brother, then we have a man who is vicariously punishing and likely killing his surrogate father and stealing a kiss from one of his surrogate mothers. So....yeah...
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* Every time you open the game, the first song to play on the main menu is Scott Shelby’s theme. This serves as a subtle clue that he is the Origami Killer.

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* The origami figures seen in the Helpless ending can come from three places, all of which are horrifying in their own way:
** Ethan made them himself, meaning he’s either consumed with guilt and madness and only has one way to express it or he’s snapped and genuinely believes he’s the origami killer himself.
** The families of Scott’s victims sent them to him as a twisted form of revenge. After all, almost all of them kept the box that included the original origami figures Scott made.
** Scott used the massive amount of origami figures he still had left over, as well as the ones he collected during his “investigation”, and sent them to Ethan to rub it in his face.

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