Wild Mass Guessing for the Video Game Façade (2005).
The characters are dead and the game takes place in Purgatory.
Trip, Grace, and the player's character are dead. They were together when a horrible disaster or accident happened; killing them. Their souls are trapped in Purgatory which looks like Trip's and Grace's apartment and they think they're having a party. This explains why they can move through each other and walls.- This theory makes perfect sense. Trip and Grace were from the 1950s-1960s because if you look at their wedding photo its in black and white and black and white photography was common at that time and trip and grace do have that stereotypical fifties look grace has that bob hairstyle that was popular with women back then and trip wears an outfit that strongly looks like the kind of outfit a common 50s male would wear and you don't see alot of electronics at their apartment so maybe that's were they were from.
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was how they died. That or Kha killed them.
You're not their friend. You're some kind of magic being sent to save relationships
The friend they lost touch with has been dead for years and they have been so wrapped up in their lives that they never noticed. You are a mystical being assigned, (or perhaps you choose) to save, (or ruin) their marriage. There's no evidence for this, but it would be funny. Trip and Grace are in an endless recursion
The night of their argument always gets repeated with little variations here and there, the only difference being who visits. There is no way out, even if they patch things up. The player character can't phase through walls except a few. Grace and Trip can always.
That is why your PC can't fit behind the bar while Trip can. Similar to the top WMG, Grace and Trip are both dead, but the player character is still alive.
The player character is the couples medium friend trying to put their spirits to rest after they died. This might also explain why Trip and Grace can phase through things. Trip and Grace are dead but rather than the PC being a medium, the PC is an arbiter in Quindecim deciding whether they are reincarnated or sent to the void.
Pulp's "Common People" was written about Grace
The subject of "Common People" is a rich, short-haired college student who studied sculpture and enjoys slumming and going on dates with working class boys. This matches up suspiciously well with Grace, and there's little that explicitly doesn't - we don't know if she's from Greece, for instance. After her date with Jarvis Cocker and her subsequent dressing down by him, she stopped pretending she never went to school. But she couldn't get rid of her conflation of poverty with "realness", nor her shame over her upbringing. Thus, she hooked up with Trip for the same reasons she hooked up with Jarvis. Façade is a sequel
The game is actually a sequel to The Town with No Name. Trip is a descendant of the main character. The city in the background is Dodge Gulch in the 21st century. Grace is having an affair with the player/friend
Grace is sometimes flattered by your flirtatious comments.- Most likely not as the player hasn't seen the couple in ten years, and if they were having an affair at the time of the game it is unlikely Grace would act somewhat flustered when you get to be alone with her.
