My personal theories

[dreamdust21]

if this isn't obvious this discussion contains SPOILERS

Don't mind me I'm just here to drop all the things my brain randomly analyzed, I can’t stop thinking about this game and it's nice to organize all these thoughts on a file

first I want to note that I refer to milk chan as "Nonae" a name I made up for her and I'll be using it here

-The fear of "O"
her fear of something as simple and irrational as the letter o could be simply just her projection of a much bigger trigger on a simple daily life thing.
Knowing that she has been through a traumatic event she could've heard anything that would sound like "o" :
- Ambulance sirens
-crying and weeping
-screaming?
I feel like the ambulance is the most fitting since her father commited s and the ambulance came to take him and that's the last thing Nonae heard before her memory got all blank

-"is anyone out there?" ending
First time I got it I interpreted it as Nonae's relationship with the outside world in general when it comes to seeking help for her struggles and trauma, how she's first trapped alone in and gets a chance of reaching out after fighting so hard only to get mocked and hurt by everything
Butttttt lately I watched a video about the endings and this ending was interpeted as her experiences on the internet
I got this ending again today and I tried to fill in that context and it ABSOLUTELY fits
-the fact that the light that comes from the door is BLUE is an important detail: devices such as phones and computers produce blue light!!!!
- the way her voice spreads really fast in the vast plain, along walking and running hundred steps in split seconds indecated the speed of the internate and how something can spread on it so quickly like camp fire
-ALSO I used to think the final scene in the ending is a loop and she'll start doing everything all over again but today I noticed that at the end when she came back to the cold room THE DOOR WAS GONE indecating that this is the last human connection she ever seeked in her life before shutting herself away from the world compeletly

-"I look down" ending
First time I got it I was too confused to understand what's going on but when I replayed it a second time on the same day it hit me
To me the staircase Nonae is standing on represents her life journey and the other staircases represents the life journeys of other people
Due to her mental suffering she finds moving forward meaningless and doesn’t want to keep on living anymore, she just wants to be stuck in place and freeze forever, and even when a part of herself wants her to move she chooses to take the stairs down and go backwards, this shows how stuck in the past she is and rather go backwards there, even if it’s scary it’s familiar
Also it's really intersting that the video I watched by ph at midnight noted that mendel and wozeck were mentioned and said the wozeck was the protagonist of an opera who inherited a mental illness from his mother while mendel is the father of modern genetics, so she theorized that Nonae could have inherited mental issues from her father

-"You don't get it ending"
I only want to make a small note here that in the same video treska could be interpeted as Nonae's father as a child and that made me wonder:
If treska does represent her father as a little boy what if this is how she felt about him throughout her life?

If we can assume he had mental issues what of Nonae felt like she had to take care of him instead of him taking care of her as a father?

- The mother
it's interseting how everyone just label her as just some weird creature but to me she actualy looks like a baby!!!

Nonae did state that her family was indeed difficult so maybe she felt like she had to take care of her parents feelings and emotional breakdowns herself?


Yawwwn this is all I have for now can't believe I stayed up for this lol



-The color scheme
I noticed that when I close my eyes I see spots of colors similar to the one in the game so maybe that’s what it’s inspired Nonae feels lost and feels as if she’s navigating the world while eyes closed ever since what happened to her, almost as if her inner sight went blind

[TheRealSameme]

Amazing

[Ger4og]

Interesting

[cwaba]

My interpretation of the fear of "O" was more about the image, which seems like an all-encompassing void - aka death and/or the call of the void. I think the fact that the same image shows up before/during the first and second death scenes seems to back up that theory for me.

[Katatonik]

I think the fear of O is because it's resemble an eye.
And something happened in her life that makes people look at here and makes here fear looking at an O is because it reminded her of being watch.

[dreamdust21]

Originally posted by cwaba:

My interpretation of the fear of "O" was more about the image, which seems like an all-encompassing void - aka death and/or the call of the void. I think the fact that the same image shows up before/during the first and second death scenes seems to back up that theory for me.

Aaaahhh yeahhh that can make a lot of sense too I personally thought of the ambulance thing because I always think about the void she sees when I hear ambulance sirens all the time xd

[dreamdust21]

Originally posted by Katatonik:

I think the fear of O is because it's resemble an eye.
And something happened in her life that makes people look at here and makes here fear looking at an O is because it reminded her of being watch.

Ahh yes never thought of the eye thing :0 however if we consider the constant void images she sees it probably reminds her more of the void, if it feels like being watched then she should probably see eyes instead of a black hole

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if you play the first game you learn that the color palette is a result of her "condition" which she developed after the event with her dad. said disorder - pseudophakic erythropsia - is also likely a more literal explanation for all the scenarios where her exceptionally poor eyesight: because, for her, everything in the world is stark red!