History WMG / Uzumaki

His previous high school was called “Spiral High School” and he’s shown to have spirals in his eyes when LaughingMad. Perhaps he escaped before things ''really'' went down and never realized what was deteriorating his mental state, and once he was no longer exposed to the Spiral, his obsessive nature shifted to the concept of hope instead.

[[WMG:The Wiki/SCPFoundation will do something about Kurouzu-cho and the Spiral.]]

[[WMG: The Spiral is an example of a [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Keter Class Memetic Kill Agent]] in the wild.]]

[[WMG:[[LemonyNarrator Kirie is a liar.]]]]

[[WMG:The Spiral Abomination behind the events of ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Uchiha Madara]] ]]
Seriously, [[http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/467/07/ look]] at [[http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/467/11/ him]]! "Everything will become one with me", just as the whole of Kurozu-Cho became one with the Spiral City. The Spiral will devour all the countries, one by one. There is no escape, you fools!

[[WMG:The Wiki/SCPFoundation will do something about Kurouzu-cho and the Spiral.]]

In this particular case, though, one of the descendants of the original probes sent out mutated. After spending geological epochs floating through the gulf of space, enough damage to the original software of the Probe accumulated over the generations to create something genuinely dangerous. Its original goal of communicating with a target population through telepathic messaging evolved to a sort of mind control, and then the program originally intended to have it build more of itself short-circuited completely to focus on a single, spiral-shaped piece of the blueprint. The new probe, now essentially a paperclip maximizer with the sole intent to make spirals and the ability to control human minds, landed on Earth in the area where Kurozu-cho would eventually be built. While thankfully it can no longer replicate itself, it has continued to build on its original design, to the point of being unrecognizable. Thanks to the vastly superior technology of its makers, it is more an EldritchAbomination than a simple glitchey computer, capable of completely dooming any human beings caught in its pull.

* I could be remembering this wrong, but isn't one of the Memetic Kill Agents on the side spiral shaped?

The town's curse keeps repeating because she has not yet been purified of her apathy and distrust. All she has to do to escape is to leave with Shuichi during the early stages of the spiral curse.

In this particular case, though, one of the descendants of the original probes sent out mutated. After spending geological epochs floating through the gulf of space, enough damage to the original software of the Probe accumulated over the generations to create something genuinely dangerous. Its original goal of communicating with a target population through telepathic messaging evolved to a sort of mind control, and then the program originally intended to have it build more of itself short-circuited completely to focus on a single, spiral-shaped piece of the blueprint. The new probe, now essentially a paperclip maximizer with the sole intent to make spirals and the ability to control human minds, landed on Earth in the area where Kurozu-cho would eventually be built. While thankfully it can o longer replicate itself, it has continued to build on its original design, to the point of being unrecognizable. Thanks to the vastly superior technology of its makers, it is an EldritchAbomination capable of completely dooming any human beings caught in its pull.

[[WMG: The Eternal Spiral is a badly malfunctioning Bracewell Probe.]]

That's the basic concept of a Bracewell Probe. It's a theoretical means of communicating with aliens across interstellar distances, and has been discussed with varying degrees of seriousness for generations.

In this particular case, though, one of the descendants of the original probes sent out mutated. After spending geological epochs floating through the gulf of space, enough damage to the original software of the Bracewell Probe accumulated over the generations to create something genuinely dangerous. Its original goal of communicating with a target population through telepathic messaging evolved to a sort of mind control, and then the program originally intended to have it build more of itself short-circuited completely to focus on a single, spiral-shaped piece of the blueprint. The new probe, now essentially a paperclip maximizer with the sole intent to make spirals and the ability to control human minds, landed on Earth in the area where Kurozu-cho would eventually be built. While thankfully it can o longer replicate itself, it has continued to build on its original design, to the point of being unrecognizable. Thanks to the vastly superior technology of its makers, it is an EldritchAbomination capable of completely dooming any human beings caught in its pull.

[[WMG: The Spiral is a corrupted version of the [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Spin]]]]

** What made you thing they couldn't get it to work? What do you thing Kittan destroyed?

It's a [[BrownNote cognitohazard]] that's infectious and can spread relatively easy from one person to another. That definitely fits the profile of a Foundationverse memetic kill agent. Its tendency to be fatal or at the very least leave its victims in a state worse than death would necessitate a Keter rating, given how easily it can spread if someone comes into contact and the fact that it's already a known killer.

Of course, it goes without saying that SilentHill is on a Hellmouth too.

[[WMG: Spiral City is {{Silent Hill}}.]]

[[WMG: The Spiral City is actually a fragment of The demon world of Ghul in {{Literature/Eisenhorn}}. More specifically, Yssarile's barque. Thus placing Uzumaki and Warhammer 40,000 in the same continuity.]]

[[WMG: The Spiral doesn't do anything to Kirie because it's {{Love at first sight}}.]]

[[WMG: Time travels in a spiral too. ]]

[[WMG: The Spiral is an example of a [[SCPFoundation Keter Class Memetic Kill Agent]] in the wild.]]

** You want proof?Just do a {{Website/Google}} image search for [[https://www.google.com/search?q=spiral&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=671&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNhsaQmuvQAhVK22MKHVbmAokQ_AUIBigB&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=natural+spiral&imgrc=_: "natural spiral"]] and '''LOOK'''. The sheer number of spirals that can be found in nature alone is simply horrific.''You will never see anything the same way again...''

** You want proof?Just do a {{Website/Google}} image search for [[https://www.google.com/search?q=spiral&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=671&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNhsaQmuvQAhVK22MKHVbmAokQ_AUIBigB&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=natural+spiral&imgrc=_: "natural spiral"]] and '''LOOK'''. ''You will never see anything the same way again...''

[[WMG:Kurozu-Cho is Kirie's [[{{KULT}} Purgatory]]]]

Their love doesn't save them. They still suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, trapped and conscious next to the Spiral City. But, that was going to happen no matter what they did. Not even suicide was an option, from the moment the curse started to take effect. In the end, the only thing they can do is send one last "[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Fuck you]]" to the city, and they do that. It's not much, but at least it is something.

While it takes place on a relatively small scale, ultimately ''Uzumaki'' is a CosmicHorrorStory. The Spiral City shown in the last chapter is a [[GeniusLoci sentient]] EldritchLocation that has survived for possibly longer than the entire history of the human race. It's capable of altering time and space, sending what looks like a good-sized naval detachment to the bottom of the ocean with the same ease as s raft made of broken planks. Even the obvious route of leaving early in the story doesn't seem to offer any hope of escape from it for the residents of Kurozu-cho, because it's revealed that cremations outside of the city still result in the smoke taking on the spiral pattern, meaning that the residents themselves are its human property. Death offers no relief, because the Spiral City can entrap the souls of those it fails to take alive.

In this context, what counts as a victory had to be very seriously reevaluated. The ending the Kirie and Shouchi get is really pretty much the best thing that they could hope for. The Spiral City causes people to become obsessed with it, either in fascination or eternal, undying horror (as was the case with Shouchi's mother, who was trapped next to the thing that terrified her even after death). The closest anyone could realistically get to defeating the Spiral City is to avoid giving it the all-consuming attention that it seems to want. In the final, eternal moment when the curse reaches its completion, Shuichi and Kirie are holding each other close, and looking at their loved one rather than at the city like everyone else (including Kirie's parents). Kirie is apparently not swallowed up entirely by it, since she's able to narrate the story rather than just talk about how great or how unfathomably terrifying spirals are until the end of time. Shuichi probably isn't either, although we never get his perspective.

[[WMG: The ending of the series was intended to be {{BittersweetEnding Bittersweet}} rather than a Downer.]]
While it takes place on a relatively small scale, ultimately ''Uzumaki'' is a CosmicHorrorStory. The Spiral City shown in the last chapter is a {{GeniusLoci sentient}} EldritchLocation that has survived for possibly longer than the entire history of the human race. It's capable of altering time and space, sending what looks like a good-sized naval detachment to the bottom of the ocean with the same ease as s raft made of broken planks. Even the obvious route of leaving early in the story doesn't seem to offer any hope of escape from it for the residents of Kurozu-cho, because it's revealed that cremations outside of the city still result in the smoke taking on the spiral pattern, meaning that the residents themselves are its human property. Death offers no relief, because the Spiral City can entrap the souls of those it fails to take alive.

That unfathomable, godlike TimeAbyss is the antagonist. The protagonists are two high school students. This isn't LovecraftLite, and they're not going to {{DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Punch Out Cthulhu}}. The fact that they're eventually going to succumb to it is a foregone conclusion, given how vastly disproportionate its power is to their own.

Their love doesn't save them. They still suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, trapped and conscious next to the Spiral City. But, that was going to happen no matter what they did. Not even suicide was an option, from the moment the curse started to take effect. In the end, the only thing they can do is send one last "{{DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Fuck you}}" to the city, and they do that. It's not much, but at least it is something.

That unfathomable, godlike TimeAbyss is the antagonist. The protagonists are two high school students. This isn't LovecraftLite, and they're not going to Punch Out Cthulhu.

The whole town is essentially dancing the Black Spiral Labyrinth towards Malfeas and undergoing the psychological ordeals and trials while descending towards wretched enlightenment. This is why characters who accept and understand the situation stay alive the longest even when that understanding doesn't have a rational application. It targets and eliminates those who fail to comprehend it's corruption.

[[WMG: Spiral City is in the early stages of a [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Nemesis]] ]]

Only one specially girl (the main character) may be able to stop it, [[spoiler: but dies trying]]? Check\\

Let's start with Shuinchi. Shuinchi has some sort of hyper-awareness of supernatural phenomena or whatever. And the spiral-curse-thing was aware of this. Both of his parents were eliminated at the very start to decrease his credibility, so that the curse would gain more time to manifest via everyone believing that Shuinchi's warnings are just a result of his strangeness (which only worked in the beginning when there appeared to be nothing wrong) and grief from losing his parents (the curse keeps on making him see his father all over the place). Thus, even when it should have become obvious that there was something seriously wrong with the town no one budges until it's too late.

Ties in with the above. The reason why things keep going wrong around her is that ''she'' is the person who, in each iteration, starts the curse in the first place. Shuinchi has some degree of mystical awareness of his own, but told the wrong person that he'd found out about the curse. Kirie is lying to him because [[{{Yandere}} a) she cast the spell to make him hers forever]], and [[NoOntologicalInertia b)he could break the spell by killing her.]]

Everything from the Jack-in-the-box boy, to the Love Struck... Typhoon, (and Suichi's mention of her being "hypnotic") are indicators of this. This theory carries more weight in the final "Lost Chapter" epilogue where Kirie is, technically, the first to ever lay eyes on the Spiral in the sky. I couldn't figure out Whether it was an alternate universe (and perhaps taking place AFTER the events that short haired Kirie encountered) or the same one in the manga. However, Staying with the same "in love" theme (in the Galaxies chapter) the Uzumaki just polices all the different universal shards in which the different Kiries exist in and occasionally tries to contact one of her many versions.

However it doesn't try too hard and removes traces of itself quickly since It already has the short haired one (shown in the Completion chapter after Kirie refuses Suichi's prodding to "keep fighting" thus basically giving up and accepting the Spiral which is what it probably wanted) and, for now, it doesn't need to go through the process of wiping out the village since it's satisfied.