History WMG / TheEvilWithin2

A file in the game says that the core must have a strong sense of ego, which only fits a child or a psychopath. Deciding that a child can be easily manipulated and is not a trustworthy core, while a psycopath will just turn a STEM into a hellscape, whatever is left of Mobius tries an experiment in which they use an adult with a very strong moral sense instead, which is why Joseph was dragged away and why Kidman describes his situation as alive but complicated.

In the second game, this even manifests as using the communicator as a way to find pockets of leftover power, especially from the bodies of Mobius security. Being specifically trained for diving into STEM, members of Mobius would likely have more willpower than the residents, but most die anyways. Sebastian can sense out their remnants and collect what's left, manifesting as what he perceives to be ammo, guns, upgrades, what have you. Much of the hardware Sebastian carries on him is looted from the dead and could be considered analogous to the stray body parts on the monsters. Both games are the story of Sebastian being put into the STEM, getting his bearings, then gathering power until he can overpower the local psychopaths.

** [[spoiler: JOSSED. She's as innocent as Sebastian remembers her and in the end, they get reunited.]]

[[spoiler: That said, if a mother continues to breast fed her children as they get older it soon enough becomes a major {{squick}}. Thus, the abundance of milk related to Myra shows how her [[MamaBear maternal instinct]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist has gotten out of control]] to the point where she cares more about keeping Lilly all to herself rather than letting her be reunited with Sebastian her loving father or allowed to escape from the STEM.]]

[[spoiler: There's also the question of how exactly Kidman removed her sub-dermal chip. Assuming that the method of chip extraction seen within STEM is accurate, then removal is clearly not a quick and easy process, even on a cadaver. Add to that the fact that the chip must be attached to something important in order to act as an effective kill switch, and you've got a surgical procedure that definitely doesn't lend itself to the DIY treatment. Finding a surgeon willing to perform the extraction is fairly unlikely too, since it's implied that Mobius rules the world to the point of Myra only trusting three confirmed people to help her take them down. So Kidman would need to find a person who had a reason to want to take Mobius down, and who has the relevant skills to perform a delicate extraction surgery without setting off the chip. Ruvik certainly fits the bill there.]]

Perhaps the symbol of [=MOBIUS's=] progenitor? Or a secret third party working behind the scenes?

Expanding on the above WMG, [[spoiler: since Sebastian has reunited with Lily, and likely gone off the radar with her, the story will focus on Kidman and Joseph as they mop up whatever is left of Mobius, since there's a good chance not all of them were implanted with Union chips, while also hunting down Ruvik to kill him once and for all.]]

[[WMG: If there is another sequel or DLC, the protagonists will be Kidman and/or [[spoiler: Joseph.]]]]

[[spoiler: JOSSED. She's as innocent as she is both inside and outside the STEM and in the end Sebastian got reunited with her.]]

Expanding on the above WMG, [[spoiler: since Sebastian has reunited with Lily, and likely gone off the radar with her, the story will focus on Kidman and Joseph as they mop up whatever is left of Mobius, since not all of them were implanted with Union chips, while also hunting down Ruvik to kill him once and for all.]]

[[WMG: If there is another sequel or DLC, Kidman and/or [[spoiler: Joseph]] will be playable.]]

[[spoiler:If you collect all the photo slides, you get an extra scene that implies that Ruvik may have reactivated the STEM. One of the photo slides also leads to Kidman mentioning that Joseph is alive but she'll have to tell Sebastian more later. What if Joseph was tracking down Ruvik to try to kill the latter but had to keep his head down since Mobius was still active, and therefore couldn't talk to Sebastian.]]

In the first game, we had an old-money family with an Italian surname named the Victorianos, and now we have Stefano Valentini, another Italian-named American as a prominent antagonist. What are the odds of that happening? Krimson City may have an unusually high population descended from Italian immigrants, which would make that far more likely.

In the first game, Lily was believed to be dead, having perished in a house fire.

This theory states that when Sebastian finally finds his daughter, she'll have horrible burns scars from the fire that he thought she died from, with signs of mental scarring from both the fire and the toll as a host for Union that'll imply Ruvik's backstory happening all over again through her.

[[WMG:Stefano is related to Ruvik.]]
Come on, their last names are literally ''one letter'' apart from each other! Ruvik Valentin'''o''' was the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' and now Stefano Valentin'''i''' is the (implied) BigBad of ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2''? Surely that can't just be coincidence!

In the first game, we had an old-money family with an Italian-sounding last name named the Valentinos, and now we have Stefano Valentini, another Italian-named American as a prominent antagonist. What are the odds of that happening? Krimson City may have an unusually high population descended from Italian immigrants, which would make that far more likely.

This theory states that when Sebastian finally finds his daughter, she'll have horrible burns scars from the fire that he thought she died from, with signs of mental scarring from both the fire and the toll as a host for Union that'll imply Ruvik's backstory happening all over again through her.