History WMG / TwentyOnePilots

** Not only does this explain all their similarities, it adds a layer of DramaticIrony: Chester ended up '''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/twentyonepilots/comments/3wggx4/chester_bennington_of_linkin_park_loves_t%C3%B8p/ loving]]''' TØP, but as far as we know, never found out the lead singer was his youngest son. And, whether he wanted to or not, Tyler [[StableTimeLoop couldn't prevent]] his father's death...

*** Because it hasn't been invented ''yet''.

** He named the band as a tribute to Chester’s time in Music/StoneTemplePilots .

** To help prevent a paradox, he chose his new last name, Joseph, after his father's bandmate Joe Hahn.

Traumatized by his father’s untimely death when he was 11, Tyler grows up to be a musician in much the same style. When time travel is invented, he sees a way to make Chester proud of him. He traveled to early 2000s

** He chose his new

[[WMG: Tyler Joseph is really [[Music/LinkinPark Tyler Bennington]] from the future.]]

! Tyler and Josh have no idea that they're dead in "House of Gold"
Which is why they're floating; [[AchievementsInIgnorance they think they still have legs]].
** And they realize they're dead when their parts in the song are over, which explains why [[spoiler: Josh is already laying on the ground at the end of the video, when Tyler dies. His part ended awhile ago, so he realized he was supposed to be dead and therefore died then.]]

! In the video for "House of Gold", Tyler and Josh are brothers and the woman in the house is their mother.
They died in a gruesome farm accident and because they NeverGotToSayGoodbye, the song is their goodbye to her as their UnfinishedBusiness.
* This also makes sense with either of the below two [=WMG=]s.

! In the video for "House of Gold", Tyler and Josh can't ''die'' until they finish the song.
They both ''would have'' died because of the[[note]]implied[[/note]] farming accident, but they still had UnfinishedBusiness so they stuck around.
* What constitutes as "finishing" their UnfinishedBusiness is completing their part in the song. This explains why [[spoiler:when Tyler "dies" at the end, Josh is already laying on the ground. [[FridgeBrilliance His part in the song ended a while ago, so he "died" then.]]]]

! In the video for "House of Gold", Tyler and Josh are ghosts and can't ''move on'' to the next life until they finish the song.
They both died because of the[[note]]implied[[/note]] farming accident, but they still had UnfinishedBusiness so they came back as ghosts.[[note]]What differentiates this from the above is that the band has ''two'' dying moments here: one when they "die", the other when they "move on". The above only has one. Less importantly, in this case they're separate from their physical body and in the above they're not.[[/note]]
* What constitutes as "finishing" their UnfinishedBusiness is the same as above, just replace "dies"/"died" with "moves on"/"moved on".
* Sub-WMG: Josh didn't die until his part in the song started.[[note]]Tyler also wouldn't have been able to die until his part in the song started, but seeing as that was ''immediately'', that point is useless.[[/note]]
** Which could be either when he's first shown on screen,[[note]]which would explain why his body doesn't move until the drums start; he was in death, and when he begins moving is when he became a ghost,[[/note]] or...
** ...it could be that he doesn't die until he gets himself dragged underneath the truck[[note]]which would explain why he has to drag himself along (instead of, say, floating) and why he looks like he's in serious pain despite Tyler (and later, himself) looking like he doesn't even ''notice'' half his body is gone; it's because he's [[FridgeHorror still alive]] at the beginning of the video.[[/note]]
*** This option also makes more sense if you assume the way the song sounds in-universe is slightly different than what's heard by the audience. Tyler and Josh are both clearly playing their instruments in the video, but the drums kick in before Josh actually starts "playing" anything in-universe. It could be inferred that in the version of the song in the video[[note]]i.e. what Tyler and Josh are hearing[[/note]], his part in the song doesn't come in until he starts hitting the truck.

! In "House of Gold" (again), Tyler is unaware that he's dead.
This explains why he seems so happy, and also maybe why Josh seems to feel pain (at least, near the beginning), but [[AchievementsInIgnorance Tyler doesn't.]] Alternatively, Tyler ''did'' know[[note]]perhaps because he died before Josh, and therefore became a ghost sooner, and ''therefore'' saw the accident sooner,[[/note]] and is just trying to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation block it out.]]
* Or you could apply that to both of them. Perhaps Tyler did die first, and has blocked out the memory (which would also explain why he looks so surprised at the end), and when Josh died he did the same thing.[[note]]Which could explain why he's dragging himself at the beginning. At that point, he ''knows'' he doesn't have legs, but after blocking out the memory, [[AchievementsInIgnorance he still believes he has them]] which is why he can float. This applies to Tyler as well, although we never see him dragging himself.[[/note]]
** And the reason [[spoiler:Josh is already on the ground when Tyler "dies"]] is because his part of the song finished sooner, so he lost focus... and remembered that they were dead, which could be the cause of death.[[note]]Essentially, as long as they don't know they're dead, [[AchievementsInIgnorance they won't die.]] This applies to Tyler as well, as he also dies when his part in the song finishies (i.e. when he loses focus and is possibly able to remember that he's supposed to be dead.)[[/note]]

*** This option also makes more sense if you assume the way the song sounds in-universe is slightly different than what's heard by the audience. Tyler and Josh are both clearly playing their instruments in the video, but the drums kick in before Josh actually starts "playing" anything in-universe. It could be inferred that in the version of the song in the video[[note]]i.e. what Tyler and Josh are hearing[[/note]], his part in the song doesn't come in until he starts hitting the truck.

They both died because of the[[note]]implied[[/note]] farming accident, but they still had UnfinishedBusiness so they came back as ghosts.[[note]]What differentiates this from the above is that the band has ''two'' dying moments here: one when they "die", the other when they "move on". The above only has one.[[/note]]

They both died because of the[[note]]implied[[/note]] farming accident, but they still had UnfinishedBusiness so they stuck around came back as ghosts.[[note]]What differentiates this from the above is that the band has ''two'' dying moments here: one when they "die", the other when they "move on". The above only has one.[[/note]]