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* I don't think the animal jokes are supposed to 'canonize' the idea that they're animals, and from the way they speak there's more reason to believe they're simply people. Lori even mentions "the human spirit". My personal theory is that Mae (metaphorically) sees people as the animal people from DEMONTOWER, which is why the bird-people are people she doesn't know so well at first, or are intimidating to her.
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* When Mae and Bea are using the microfiche in the library, one of the news articles mentions a hallucinatory gas. Maybe the Black Goat is some kind of shared delusion.
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* When Mae and Bea are using the microfiche in the library, one of the news articles mentions a hallucinatory [[spoiler:hallucinatory gas. Maybe the Black Goat is some kind of shared delusion.
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** Alternatively, it's possible that [[spoiler:the miner society ''evolved into'' the cult, or experienced a split with one faction becoming the cult. Mae's grandfather withdrew because he didn't agree with their new goals and methods.]]
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[[WMG: Angus' parents abused him out of homophobia.]]
Angus' parents were homophobic, and when their young son showed signs of being gay, their bigotry drove them to abuse and neglect him.
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* When Mae and Bea are using the microfiche in the library, one of the news articles mentions a hallucinatory gas. Maybe the Black Goat is some kind of shared delusion.
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** She says a lot of very cryptic things to Mae whenever they run into each other, telling her to be careful, bad things could happen to 'people like you', and other things that sound vaguely threatening. While it could just be that Molly knows something suspicious is going on and wants her niece to be safe, it's very easy to read her warnings as Molly being a member[[spoiler: of the cult]] and trying to get Mae to shape up so she won't be targeted by the others. On top of that, [[spoiler: when Mae is chasing the ghost/cult member, Molly shows up when Mae is having her staredown with it. Once you know it's not a ghost, odds are unless it suddenly ran away the moment Molly got within range, Moly would have been able to see it too. Molly's dialogue isn't that of an annoyed cop who's tired of her niece running around at night, it's one of a cop who is aware that something is dangerous and is ordering Mae to back down. Did Molly see a fellow cult member and pretend not to notice them, banking on Mae thinking it was a ghost in order to get her to think she really didn't see anything?]]
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* There is an article at the library that describes [[spoiler:a group of people that each kept a tooth as a sign of membership. It is never stated to directly be the cult, but if you check the safe in the crawlspace, you can find a mysterious tooth in there.]]
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** Adding onto that, it might not just be Aunt Molly, but Mae's grandfather too. Consider: the [[spoiler: cultists]] say they don't hurt people who contribute to the town or are connected by relation. They [[spoiler: killed Casey even though he was born and raised in the town, and had two worried parents.]] It can be reasonably assumed that the relation-rule only really applies to people related to themselves. In the mine, [[spoiler: they say they won't hurt the kids because they all fall into that category of being upstanding town workers. This makes sense for Bea, Angus, and even Gregg, but not for college-dropout, mentally-unstable, history-of-violence, woman-child Mae. If anything, Mae seems like she'd be next in line on the chopping block after she started poking around. The only thing that could be protecting her is the fact that she has family in the cult.]] In the prologue, Granddad knew that the town was dying, that something nefarious was going on, quotes that "they were looking for gods," and then claims with a horrified, possibly guilt-stricken look that the house is haunted. After all, if Molly was in on it, then someone would have had to introduce her. . .
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* [[spoiler: When Mae is falling in and out of consciousness at the church, the Janitor enters the room from a direction where there is no door. He tells the confused family and neighbors that he is there to "fix a door", and that Mae will be fine. Considering that he seemed to know the situation without having been told, isn't known by any of the locals, and is there to "fix a door" when the Hole at the Center of Everything told by the SpaceCatThing involves creatures from outside tearing their way the universe (creating shoddy doors, if you will) it certainly points to the Janitor having some kind of connection or knowledge that he isn't letting on.]]
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* [[spoiler: And the cat-thing not-god that Mae meets in her dream doesn't think he/it exists either because it hasn't noticed him because he acts subtly, it's just never interacted with him for some reason, or he's different from the descriptions the other "little creatures" gave him of god so it doesn't think they were taking about him.]]
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* [[spoiler: And the cat-thing not-god that Mae meets in her dream doesn't think he/it God exists either because it hasn't they haven't noticed him because he acts subtly, it's they've just never interacted with him for some reason, or he's different from the descriptions the other "little creatures" gave him them of god so it doesn't they don't think they were taking about him.]]
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[[WMG: Mae's grandfather [[spoiler:used to be a cult member.]]]]
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[[WMG: Mae's grandfather [[spoiler:used [[spoiler:use to be a cult member.]]]]
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[[spoiler:When he dies he starts screaming about how they are haunted and shortly after his death a disaster of some sort hits the town.]]
[[spoiler:His complete obsession with ghosts and the supernatural.]]
[[spoiler:He would go off hunting in the woods for long periods of time but would never let Mae come with him because "It was just a guy thing" plus all of the cult members are armed with hunting rifles.]]
[[spoiler:The cult says they won't kill the gang because they all work and contribute to the town. Mae however is unemployed and is considered trouble by the entire town. However, they also say that they won't kill anyone if they have a family relation to the cult.]]
[[spoiler:His complete obsession with ghosts and the supernatural.]]
[[spoiler:He would go off hunting in the woods for long periods of time but would never let Mae come with him because "It was just a guy thing" plus all of the cult members are armed with hunting rifles.]]
[[spoiler:The cult says they won't kill the gang because they all work and contribute to the town. Mae however is unemployed and is considered trouble by the entire town. However, they also say that they won't kill anyone if they have a family relation to the cult.]]
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*[[spoiler:The cult says they won't kill the gang because they all work and contribute to the town. Mae however is unemployed and is considered trouble by the entire town. However, they also say that they won't kill anyone if they have a family relation to the cult.]]
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[[spoiler:When he dies he starts screaming about how they are haunted and shortly after his death a disaster of some sort hits the town.]]
[[spoiler:His complete obsession with ghosts and the supernatural.]]
[[spoiler:He would go off hunting in the woods for long periods of time but would never let Mae come with him because "It was just a guy thing" plus all of the cult members are armed with hunting rifles.]]
[[spoiler:The cult says they won't kill the gang because they all work and contribute to the town. Mae however is unemployed and is considered trouble by the entire town. However, they also say that they won't kill anyone if they have a family relation to the cult.]]
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For all that [[spoiler:the cultists]] talk about their actions protecting the town, ''it's still dying'' and it's still suffered [[spoiler:multiple natural disasters.]] Much like [[spoiler:the [[FascistButInefficient actual demagogues]] the "god" is a clear reference to,]] it's all based on rhetoric and desperation — people wanting to buy into a narrative of something "saving them" whether or not it actually makes a difference.
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For all that [[spoiler:the cultists]] talk about their actions protecting the town, ''it's still dying'' and it's still suffered [[spoiler:multiple natural disasters.]] Much like [[spoiler:the [[FascistButInefficient actual demagogues]] the "god" is a clear reference to,]] it's all based on rhetoric and desperation — people wanting they want to buy into a narrative of something "saving them" whether or not it actually makes a difference.
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[[WMG: Mae's grandfather [[spoiler:used to be a cult member.]]]]
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[[WMG: In the future, Mae will become a janitor.]]
As hinted in [[spoiler:her journal at the end of the game.]]
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** Mae's father calls her "kitten", while this is a common pet name in real life it's obviously done for the sake of the pun as well as subtly acknowledging their species.
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** She also doesn't appear anywhere during the epilogue.
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* Keep in mind that [[spoiler:we never see the Black Goat directly; our only glimpses of the supernatural come through Mae, most of them during dreams, and her one "awake" confrontation comes at the tail end of an ''extremely'' harrowing couple of days — plus, everything she says can be viewed as directed not towards any vengeful god, but towards ''her despair and mental illness,'' which she may well be aware of.]]
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* Keep in mind that [[spoiler:we never see incontrovertible evidence of the Black Goat directly; Goat's existence; our only direct glimpses of the supernatural come through Mae, most of them during dreams, and her one "awake" confrontation comes at the tail end of an ''extremely'' harrowing couple of days — plus, everything she says can be viewed as directed not towards any vengeful god, but towards ''her despair the societal and mental illness,'' ills which have hurt her and her friends, and she may well seems to be aware of.]]doing this deliberately, given that she starts her comments with "I know what you are."]]
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[[WMG: Possible [[spoiler: cult members]]:]]
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[[WMG: Possible [[spoiler: cult members]]:]]members]]]]
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** They are also [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail featured prominently on the major promotional splash image]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:they don't show an unusual interest in or alarm with Bruce being out behind the woods, nor an excessive haste to vote down the homeless shelter initiative (though they do), which would presumably put a big dent in their plans. It's possible that they're just supposed to be the mundane counterpart to the cultists, to avoid making it a complete SpaceWhaleAesop.]]
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** They are also [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail featured prominently on the major promotional splash image]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:they don't show an unusual interest in or alarm with Bruce being out behind the woods, nor an excessive haste to vote down the homeless shelter initiative (though they do), which would presumably put a big dent in their plans. The Pastor may also mention the vote taking place at the very end of the game, which wouldn't make sense if they died in the cave-in. It's possible that they're just supposed to be the mundane counterpart to the cultists, to avoid making it a complete SpaceWhaleAesop.]]
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[[WMG: [[spoiler:The Black Goat doesn't exist.]]]]
For all that [[spoiler:the cultists]] talk about their actions protecting the town, ''it's still dying'' and it's still suffered [[spoiler:multiple natural disasters.]] Much like [[spoiler:the [[FascistButInefficient actual demagogues]] the "god" is a clear reference to,]] it's all based on rhetoric and desperation — people wanting to buy into a narrative of something "saving them" whether or not it actually makes a difference.
* Keep in mind that [[spoiler:we never see the Black Goat directly; our only glimpses of the supernatural come through Mae, most of them during dreams, and her one "awake" confrontation comes at the tail end of an ''extremely'' harrowing couple of days — plus, everything she says can be viewed as directed not towards any vengeful god, but towards ''her despair and mental illness,'' which she may well be aware of.]]
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* One or two subtle notes suggest that they actually ''are'' animals, but don't think of themselves in terms of race/species. For instance, the yarn ball left on the town bulletin board: Mae thinks it's [[AnimalStereotypes patronizing]], but gets into playing with it if you let her. Also the scene where Mae vandalises the Donut Wolf restroom mirror wouldn't make any sense if she had fingernails instead of claws.
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* One or two subtle notes suggest that they actually ''are'' animals, but don't think of themselves in terms of race/species. For instance, the yarn ball left on the town bulletin board: Mae thinks it's [[AnimalStereotypes patronizing]], but gets into playing with it if you let her. Also the scene where Mae vandalises the Donut Wolf restroom mirror wouldn't make any sense if she had fingernails instead of claws.
claws. ''Also'' also, Gregg couldn't fit cups on normal human ears like he puts them on early in the game.
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* One or two subtle notes suggest that they actually ''are'' animals, but don't think of themselves in terms of race/species. For instance, the yarn ball left on the town bulletin board: Mae thinks it's [[AnimalStereotypes patronizing]], but gets into playing with it if you let her.
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* One or two subtle notes suggest that they actually ''are'' animals, but don't think of themselves in terms of race/species. For instance, the yarn ball left on the town bulletin board: Mae thinks it's [[AnimalStereotypes patronizing]], but gets into playing with it if you let her.
her. Also the scene where Mae vandalises the Donut Wolf restroom mirror wouldn't make any sense if she had fingernails instead of claws.
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** They are also [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail featured prominently on the major promotional splash image]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:they don't show an unusual interest in or alarm with Bruce being out behind the woods, nor an excessive haste to vote down the homeless shelter initiative (though they do), which would presumably put a big dent in their plans. It's possible that they're just supposed to be the mundane counterpart to the cultists, to avoid making it a complete SpaceWhaleAesop.]]
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* One or two subtle notes suggest that they actually ''are'' animals, but don't think of themselves in terms of race/species. For instance, the yarn ball left on the town bulletin board: Mae thinks it's [[AnimalStereotypes patronizing]], but gets into playing with it if you let her.
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[[WMG: Possible [[spoiler: cult members]]:]]
* The Town Council members, since they seem more concerned with keeping the town alive by trying to get new people and businesses to move in instead of taking care of the people already living there, [[spoiler: much like how the cultists are more concerned with keeping the town prosperous by keeping the monster sated then the fact that are killing people to do so; they are both putting the fate of a dying town and a few run-down buildings over the fate of actual people.]]
* Mae's aunt, since she always seems to be nearby when something weird happens and basic RuleOfDrama.
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** Also there's a statue of him in the graveyard.
* [[spoiler: And the cat-thing not-god that Mae meets in her dream doesn't think he/it exists either because it hasn't noticed him because he acts subtly, it's just never interacted with him for some reason, or he's different from the descriptions the other "little creatures" gave him of god so it doesn't think they were taking about him.]]
[[WMG: The characters are actually people, not animals as they appear.]]
They seem to think of themselves as people, distinguish between themselves and the animals of the same species as them, and never refer to each other as cats or crocodiles or what-have-you. They are all humans but they appear as animals for some reason. Maybe because there's some sort of perception filter between us and the game's world. or because Mae sees them all that way (metaphorically, not literally).
* [[spoiler: And the cat-thing not-god that Mae meets in her dream doesn't think he/it exists either because it hasn't noticed him because he acts subtly, it's just never interacted with him for some reason, or he's different from the descriptions the other "little creatures" gave him of god so it doesn't think they were taking about him.]]
[[WMG: The characters are actually people, not animals as they appear.]]
They seem to think of themselves as people, distinguish between themselves and the animals of the same species as them, and never refer to each other as cats or crocodiles or what-have-you. They are all humans but they appear as animals for some reason. Maybe because there's some sort of perception filter between us and the game's world. or because Mae sees them all that way (metaphorically, not literally).
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* Potentially supporting this theory is the fact that [[spoiler:he's a bird. Every single clergy member, pope, and saint we've seen so far is a bird.]]
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* Potentially supporting this theory is the fact that [[spoiler:he's a bird. Every single clergy member, pope, and saint we've seen so far is a bird.]]]]
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[[spoiler: He follows Mae around through the game, giving odd, cryptic banter while supplying her with divine protection for what she's about to go through. It's also why he suddenly appeared in the hospital moments before Mae woke up; he dragged her out of her coma. "Fixing a door" meant fixing Mae's gateway back to consciousness.]]
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[[spoiler: He follows Mae around through the game, giving odd, cryptic banter while supplying her with divine protection for what she's about to go through. It's also why he suddenly appeared in the hospital moments before Mae woke up; he dragged her out of her coma. "Fixing a door" meant fixing Mae's gateway back to consciousness.]]
* Potentially supporting this theory is the fact that [[spoiler:he's a bird. Every single clergy member, pope, and saint we've seen so far is a bird.]]
* Potentially supporting this theory is the fact that [[spoiler:he's a bird. Every single clergy member, pope, and saint we've seen so far is a bird.]]
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[[WMG: The Janitor [[spoiler:is God.]]]]]]
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[[spoiler: He follows Mae around through the game, giving odd, cryptic banter while supplying her with divine protection for what she's about to go through. It's also why he suddenly appeared in the hospital moments before Mae woke up; he dragged her out of her coma. "Fixing a door" meant fixing Mae's gateway back to consciousness.]]
[[spoiler: He follows Mae around through the game, giving odd, cryptic banter while supplying her with divine protection for what she's about to go through. It's also why he suddenly appeared in the hospital moments before Mae woke up; he dragged her out of her coma. "Fixing a door" meant fixing Mae's gateway back to consciousness.]]
