History Headscratchers / WelcomeToNightVale

** And it's been established that astral pojection exists in Nightvale (and that teachers are banned from using it to teach classes), so that's another possibility

* Why do people refer to Kevin as Cecil's double? Cecil's double would be indistinguishable from Cecil, like how nobody knows if Dana is the original Dana or her double (including Dana herself). Kevin is Cecil's counterpart or maybe doppelganger, like Grandma Josephine for Old Woman Josie or Mayor Pablo Mitchell for Mayor Pamela Winchell.

** Given that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] is in charge of Desert Bluffs, and the place is ''downright terrifying'' by its description seen here in the transcript of Episode 19 B - "Sandstorm" http://cecilspeaks.tumblr.com/post/59578106876/episode-19b-the-sandstorm-desert-bluffs It may very well be Cecil's clairvoyance telling him that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] has sinister plans for Night Vale. And while Night Vale may not exactly be a utopia, it wouldn't be hard to imagine the awful things that would happen ''if'' [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] got their full control of the town. [[spoiler: Kevin's studio is pure NightmareFuel.]]

* Is there one Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your House who lives in all of our houses, or are there multiple distinct Faceless Old Women, or is each Faceless Old Woman each a facet of one, singular, Faceless Old Woman?

*** She could also live in only one house but no one knows which one. Alternatively she lives in Cecil's house and he is in denial about being her only target.

* Given that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] is in charge of Desert Bluffs, and the place is ''downright terrifying'' by its description seen here in the transcript of Episode 19 B - "Sandstorm" http://cecilspeaks.tumblr.com/post/59578106876/episode-19b-the-sandstorm-desert-bluffs It may very well be Cecil's clairvoyance telling him that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] has sinister plans for Night Vale. And while Night Vale may not exactly be a utopia, it wouldn't be hard to imagine the awful things that would happen ''if'' [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] got their full control of the town. [[spoiler: Kevin's studio is pure NightmareFuel.]]

* Given that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] is in charge of Desert Bluffs, and the place is ''downright terrifying'' by its description seen here in the transcript of Episode 19 B - "Sandstorm" http://cecilspeaks.tumblr.com/post/59578106876/episode-19b-the-sandstorm-desert-bluffs
It may very well be Cecil's clairvoyance telling him that [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] has sinister plans for Night Vale. And while Night Vale may not exactly be a utopia, it wouldn't be hard to imagine the awful things that would happen ''if'' [[spoiler: Strexcorp]] got their full control of the town. [[spoiler: Kevin's studio is pure NightmareFuel.]]

* Why is it that Cecil never [[spoiler:encouraged rebellion against]] the city council, but he's now doing so [[spoiler:against Strexcorp]]? Yes, [[spoiler:Strexcorp]] is now [[spoiler:likely planning something awful for a bunch of children]], but is there any reason to think it's worse than anything the city council or sheriff's secret police have done? After all, the council and mayor apparently allowed [[spoiler:the local boy scout organization and those mysterious children to turn scouts to preserve scouts and put them in a glass case after they became eternal scouts]].

::Cecil's wording clearly implies that Kevin's eyes are different from his own. However, Kevin states that Cecil's eyes are the same as his. So which is it? Is one of them lying? If so, why?
** There are a few possibilities here. Cecil's eyes might be "black as obsidian" like Kevin's, and Cecil is just unaware of this for some reason- or, Cecil's eyes might be similar in some way(s) to Kevin's eyes EXCEPT for their color. For example, some fans have the headcanon that Cecil's eyes are just white, without a visible iris or pupil. If Kevin's eyes are completely black without a visible iris or pupil, then Cecil would be correct in saying that his eyes are different, and Kevin would be technically correct if what he's saying is that they have the same TYPE of eyes.

** It's possible that in Night Vale, the people of the town already know what Cecil look like. To them, he doesn't need to explain anything-- the out-of-universe reason is to preserve the loose descriptions in radio plays, so every listener can have their own Cecil.
** Over at the WMG, there's a theory that – because people don't keep pictures of themselves on their own desks – the picture on Cecil's desk was a picture of Carlos, and the picture on Kevin's desk was of Kevin's love interest, some kind of DesertBluffs!Carlos. This would mean Cecil looks like DesertBluffs!Carlos, except for the eyes and smile, and Kevin looks like Carlos, except for the smile. And Cecil didn't meet Kevin in the portal, he met DesertBluffs!Carlos, while Kevin met Cecil's Carlos.
*** Or, if Cecil never went so far as to take and put a picture of Carlos on his desk before the events of "One Year Later", maybe it's a picture of someone else entirely - but ''who?'' Earl Harlan? A family member?

*** There's been strong evidence in the "technical difficulties" section in the episode that happens after the "station managers" episode that may have been...either replaced, or that he's been changed from his initial form in some way.

* What's up with that inn in Switz where Cecil and his travelling partner keep rolling out of all night long? Wouldn't they, at some point, come up with the idea of closing the door or just sleeping at right angles to the slope instead of parallel to it?

** Maybe they were actually having adventurous sex sessions both in the inn and outside, and "rolling" is just a euphemism. He says he didn't know this partner or remember where he met him, so maybe the partner was a prostitute or one-night-stand he picked up while drunk. This theory has some weight to it, as every time sex has come up, it's only been hinted at, or a euphemism was used (like when Cecil wanted to "look at Carlos' medical equipment", or in the SF Booksmith show, when Cecil [[spoiler: says there was "something more" with Carlos, but proceeds to cut himself off]]).
** Maybe they were just enjoying it. He mentions that they were laughing. Rolling down hills is fun and everything, especially with someone you ambiguously seem to ''like''-like. Or maybe there was some kind of {{Bizarrchitecture}} thing going on where you'd end up rolling downhill no matter what. Or since it may have been a hallucination, maybe they were just weirdly confused and incompetent the way people sometimes are in dreams.

** Maybe they were actually having adventurous sex sessions both in the inn and outside, and "rolling" is just a euphemism. He says he didn't know this partner or remember where he met him, so maybe the partner was a prostitute or one-night-stand he picked up while drunk.

** One fanon interpretation is that Cecil is the personification of Night Vale and so he knows all the things that are happening and tells them as he sees them. Any government corrections are mentioned as a sort of overwriting the town memory of the event.